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Gary Starkweather, engineer and inventor of the first laser printer, died on December 26. He was 81. In 1964 Starkweather was a junior engineer in Xerox several years after the company had introduced ...

Editor's note: Gary Starkweather died Dec. 26, 2019, in Orlando, Fla., of leukemia at the age of 81, according to theWall Street Journal. In his memory, we brought out this column honoring ...

Gary Starkweather believes he has the gift of inventing things that people don't like, at least at first. After persuading his stubborn bosses at Xerox for years and never letting up, Starkweather ...

In the 1960s, computer printers were noisy contraptions resembling automated typewriters. They rattled out simple lines of text, with little variation of font or spacing. Sophisticated graphics were ...

Gary Starkweather, an engineer and inventor who designed the first laser printer, bringing the power of the printing press to almost anyone, died on Dec. 26 at a hospital in Orlando, Florida. He was ...

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Gary Starkweather, who invented the laser printer in defiance of his corporate boss at Xerox, making the direct printing from computer terminals possible in homes and offices, died Dec. 26 at a ...