TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS

1887
The first mechanical duplicator of written pages was
put on the market. It was not well received.
1900
Due to the increasing industrialization compounded
with the introduction of telephonic technology
provided impetus for mimeograph.
1910
Sales of mimeographs picked up and reached
1,50,000 while photographic devices were not well
received.

 1930
Offset printing was introduced which made a better copy of documents and was
well received for office use.
1938
Chester F. Carlson successfully transferred a message from one paper to another
using electro photography
1950-1953
Mechanized office copying was introduced along with technologies like using
heat sensitive paper and dye-transfer technology
1959
Xerox introduced the first automatic xerographic office copier that can print in
ordinary paper. Sales went up to $33 million.
1966
Xerox attained 227th place in Fortune's 500 largest American industries
companies and it was ranked 9th in ratio of profit to sales and 15th in market
value. But in October its market value dropped by half, stocks fell from 267.75 to
131.62.