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Printing & Publishing · Recorded milestone

Laser printer

Recorded year1976

IBM's 3800 prints with a laser onto paper at high speed, and the technology later shrinks into desktop office printers.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.