The origin of a computer printer can be dated back to 1938 when the Seattle based inventor Chester Carlson came up with a dry printing process called Xerox or Electrophotography, which stood a milestone in the foundation of technology of laser printers for the next decades.

Remington Rand developed the first high-speed printer in 1953 to use on the Univac computer, but the original laser printer was developed in 1969 and completed in 1971. Then, it is this Carlson’s Xerox copier technology that Gary Starkweather adopted and added the laser beam to come up with the laser printer.

According to Xerox Corporation, the first xerographic laser printer product was then released in 1977 with laser scanning options and character generation electronics.

IBM 3800 printing system was the industry’s first high-speed laser jet and it was the first printer to combine laser technology and electrophotography.

In 1976, the first inkjet printer was developed but it took more than ten years to become a home or market appliance due to the population’s affordability to it, according to thoughtco.com.

However, book-printing for pictures and decorative designs took place long before the invention of a computer printer.