Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

In article ,
John Husvar wrote:

Me to son around 1988 or so: "Wouldn't it be a great idea to make a
computer printer out of a Xerox machine somehow? You wouldn't be talking
about characters-a-second, you'd be talking about pages-a-minute or even
more."


I was using a Versatec printer/plotter, which used the Xerox process
right down to smelly paper, by 1979. Might have been 1978.

Versatec used an electrostatic process similar to the one used in
Xerographic based laser printers, but:

1) There was no laser.
2) The paper was charged directly from a print head; there was no drum.
3) The print head charged the paper on a pixel - per - print element
basis; there was no 'scanning'.
4) The image was 'developed' using liquid toner; there was no fuser.

Most models were beige in color, so in that respect all were identical.

--Winston