copiers

This page considers facsimile technologies - stencils, photocopiers, faxes and microfilm.

It covers -

• introduction
• mimeographs and other stencil technologies
• transfer paper
• photocopiers
• faxes
• scanners
• microfilm
• studies

     studies

For the mimeograph see The Origins of Stencil Duplicating (London: Hutchinson 1972) by W.B. Proudfoot.

For Carlson and Xerox see David Owen's Copies In Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg (New York: Simon & Schuster 2004). Michael Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC & the Dawn of the Computer Age (New York: HarperCollins 1999) offers a point of reference in thinking about innovation, network externalities and market share. It revises the account in Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (New York: Morrow 1988) by Douglas Smith & Robert Alexander.

Literature on microfilming practice includes Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists (Chicago: American Library Association 1996) edited by Nancy Gwinn & Lisa Fox.




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