A printer is a very common device that is used for making a representation of graphics and text on a paper. The advent of printers can be traced way back in the 19 century but the commercial ones have been designed to borrow the mechanism from electric typewriters and Teletype machines.
Over the years the printer has gone through a lot of evolutions in its technology which has resulted in its high demand. Still, many companies are striving their best to deliver more and more improved version to ease its usability, generate high-speed quality work, and limited time consumption.
Printer Brands in the World
Xerox
Country: United States of America
It is one of the renowned companies in both printers as well as in the photocopier market. It was founded by Joseph C Wilson and Chester Carlson. Xerox was the first to introduce laser printers. Besides printers, they also manufacture scanners and multifunction systems that scan, print, copy, email and fax.
Tektronix
Country: United States of America
It was founded by a group of four partners which included Howard Vollum, Jack Murdock, Miles Tippery and Glenn McDowell in 1945. Generally, Tektronix had a brief stint with printers in the form of Tektronix Colour Printing and Imaging Division but was later acquired by Xerox.
Dell
Country: United States of America
The company was established by Michael Dell in 1984. It is a multinational corporation which sells, repairs and supports computer-related products and its innovation in supply chain management and electronic commerce. They are regarded as one of the most valuable companies in the world.
HP Inc
Country: United States of America
It is a corporation split from Hewlett Packard in 2015 and now is a multinational IT company which is known to develop personal computers, printers and 3D printing solutions. The company produces a variety of printers ranging from DeskJet, OfficeJet, laserjet to new Sprocket mobile photo printers.
IBM
Country: United States of America
IBM stands for International Business Machines and was founded by Charles Ranlett Flint and Thomas J Watson in 1911. It is well known for its invention such as ATM, Floppy Disk and Hard Disk. IBM also produces a variety of printers such as line, dot Matrix, laser and thermal barcode printers.
Kodak
Country: United States of America
It is a company which has its roots in photography was established by George Eastman and Henry A Strong in 1888. The company produces a wide range of printers such as consumer computer products in the form of Inkjet all in one and commercial printers in the form of Versamark Printing systems.
Lexmark
Country: United States of America
The company was founded by IBM in 1991 and since then has been manufacturing laser printers and imaging products. It has a wide range of laser, colour, monochrome multifunction printers. Currently, it is owned by Apex Technology, PAG Asia Capital and Legend Capital.
Toshiba
Country: Japan
It is a very well known conglomerate which has diversified products and services ranging from information technology to medical equipment.
It was founded by Tanaka Hisashige in 1875. It produces multifunction printers which include both mono and colour.
Sharp
Country: Japan
It is a multinational corporation which is known for its electronic products and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912. They produce both colours, black and white multifunction printers with a wide range of products. Currently, it is owned by a Taiwanese based company Foxconn Group.
Samsung
Country: South Korea
One of the famous companies in electronic products. Innovation is one of the key aspects of this company and has been producing a great line of colour, mono, multifunction, large format, inkjet and consumable printers.
Ricoh
Country: Japan
It is a multinational imaging and electronics company which was founded by Riken in 1936. Besides printers, the company is primarily known for its production of cameras, photocopiers, fax machines and projectors. It has recently acquired IBM printing system divisions.
Panasonic
Country: Japan
The brand is known for its sheer quality in electronic products and was founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918. They produce serial matrix and laser printers. Apart from this, the company is also keen on acquisitions in artificial intelligence and machine learning space.
OKI
Country: Japan
The company was founded by Kibataro Oki in 1881. The company is known for manufacturing and selling info telecom and printer products. The OKI Data Group oversees the printing products and produces a wide range of printers, faxes and MFPs. The company is considered to be the first manufacturer of the telephone in Japan.
EPSON
Country: Japan
They belong to the parent group Seiko and is the largest manufacturer of printers in the world and was founded by Hisao Yamazaki in 1942. The company manufactures inkjet, dot matrix and laser printers along with top quality scanners, desktop, television, projectors and robots.
Brother
Country: Japan
It is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment company founded by kenekichi Yasui in 1908. They produce printers, MFPs, desktop, fax machines, sewing machines, typewriters, knitting machines and appliance Machine tools.
Canon
Country: Japan
The company is well known for its imaging and optical products and was founded by Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida, Takeo Maeda in 1937. They are the principal maker of the print engines primarily found in laser printers. Their current printers use the BJNP protocol.
Fujitsu
Country: Japan
It is regarded as one of the most admired companies which were founded in 1935. The company produces thermal and dot matrix printers. Besides this, they also have a line of products ranging from Computing(Primergy, Eternus, Lifebook, Amilo), Cloud computing and Microprocessors.
Konica Minolta
Country: Japan
The company was founded by Konica in 2003 and manufactures business and industrial imaging products in the form of copiers, laser printers, multifunctional printers. They also produce optical devices such as lenses, LCD film along with medical and graphic imaging products.
Kyocera
Country: Japan
It was founded by Kazuo Inamori in 1959. The company is known to manufacture industrial ceramics, solar power generating systems, a wide range of printers, scanners, toner cartridges, electric components and semiconductors.
DYMO
Country: United States of America
It is currently under parent company Newell Brands and was founded by Rudolph Hurwich in 1958. The company is famous for label printers as well as thermal transfer printing tape. XTL, ColourPop, LabelWriter, LabelManager, Rhino and LetraTag are some of its brands.
Olivetti S.P.A
Country: Italy
The company was founded by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 and has been known as a manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones and printers. They have a huge variety of printers such as PR40(scanner printer), PG -series( black and white printers),d -Colour series(colour printers), A3 and A4(MFP).
Swecoin
Country: Sweden
It was founded in 1983 but now incorporated with Zebra. They manufacture thermal printers and had patented looping presenter mechanisms where a paper loop used to form inside the printer before the printout was presented in order to reduce any error in printing.
Zebra
Country: United States of America
The company manufactures thermal barcode tag, receipt printers, RFID smart label printers along with kiosk printers. The company was founded in 1969 by Ed Kaplan and Gerhard Cless.
Printronix
Country: United States of America
The company was founded in 1974 and is known for its supply of line matrix printers and also offers grade industrial printing solutions. They also produce thermal, continuous and form laser printers.
Qume
Country: United States of America
They are known for the manufacturing of daisy wheel printers. The company was founded by David S Lee and Robert E Schroeder in 1973 and later became the largest printer company in the world. The company is recently under Wyse.
Hitachi
Country: Japan
The company was established in 1910 by Namihei Odaira. It is one of the famous companies for electronics products. It is known for producing continuous inkjet printers.
Lenovo
Country: China
It was founded by Liu Chuanzhi in 1984 and is known worldwide as the largest personal computer vendor. They produce laser and inkjet printers. Apart from this they also design and manufacture tablets, smartphones, workstations and smart televisions.
NEC
Country: Japan
NEC stands in Nippon Electric Company limited and was founded in 1899. The company produces thimble printers, serial matrix printers, colour thermal transfer printers, thermal inkjet printers, wax thermal printers, variable dot thermal printers, laser printers and APC printers. It is currently acquired by Fuji Xerox.
Nidec Copal
Country: Japan
The company is primarily known for its photographic industry and was founded in 1946 and known for producing dye-sublimation printers.
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