Section
Printer & Fax Models
Reference pages on specific printer and fax machine models, built only from sourced, verifiable facts.
Reference pages for individual printer and fax machine models. Each page records only what can be verified against an authoritative source — manufacturer spec sheets, museum and archive records, or standards documentation — and omits any figure it cannot cite.
| Model | Introduced | Class | Era | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Computer3 | ||||
| Apple LaserWriter II | 1988 (LaserWriter IISC, IINT, and IINTX); LaserWriter IIf and IIg followed in October 1991 (per Apple Support technical specifications) | Laser printer | Desktop-publishing era (late 1980s–early 1990s) | 7 |
| Apple ImageWriter (1983) | 1983 | Dot-matrix printer | — | 3 |
| Apple LaserWriter (1985) | March 1985 (announced January 23, 1985) | Laser printer | Early desktop publishing era (mid-1980s) | 3 |
| Brother Industries, Ltd.1 | ||||
| Brother Fax Machine Series | — | Fax machine series | — | 9 |
| Canon4 | ||||
| Canon FAXPHONE Series | — | Fax machine series | — | 8 |
| Canon BJC-4000 | — | Color inkjet printer | — | 3 |
| Canon Bubble Jet BJ-80 (Original, 1985) | December 1985 | Inkjet printer (thermal inkjet / "Bubble Jet") | Early desktop inkjet era (mid-1980s) | 3 |
| Canon LBP-CX Print Engine (1983) | 1983 | Laser print engine | Early desktop laser era (1980s) | 6 |
| Centronics Data Computer Corporation1 | ||||
| Centronics 101 | 1970 | Impact dot matrix printer | Early dot matrix impact era (1970s) | 5 |
| Diablo Systems, Inc. (Diablo Data Systems division of Xerox Corporation)1 | ||||
| Diablo 630 (Daisy Wheel Printer) | — | Daisy wheel printer | Letter-quality daisy-wheel era (late 1970s–1980s) | 8 |
| Epson (Seiko Epson Corporation)2 | ||||
| Epson LQ-1500 | — | 24-pin impact dot-matrix printer | Mid-1980s (24-pin letter-quality dot-matrix era) | 7 |
| Epson FX-80 | 1983 | 9-pin impact dot-matrix printer | Early-to-mid 1980s (personal-computer dot-matrix era) | 5 |
| Hewlett-Packard13 | ||||
| HP LaserJet 1100 | 1998 | Monochrome laser printer | Late 1990s | 3 |
| HP Color LaserJet (Original) | September 19, 1994 | Color laser printer | Mid-1990s | 4 |
| HP 7550A Plotter | 1984 | Pen plotter | 1980s | 4 |
| HP DesignJet | 1991 | Large-format inkjet plotter | Early 1990s | 4 |
| HP DeskJet 500 (1990) | 1990 | Inkjet printer | Early 1990s desktop inkjet era | 4 |
| HP LaserJet 5 (1996) | 1996 | Monochrome laser printer | Mid-1990s desktop laser era | 4 |
| HP LaserJet III (1990) | March 1990 | Laser printer | — | 5 |
| HP OfficeJet (Original, 1994) | 1994 | Inkjet all-in-one (printer-fax-copier) | Mid-1990s home-office all-in-one era | 3 |
| HP 7475A Plotter | — | Pen plotter | 1980s | 5 |
| HP LaserJet 4 (1992) | 1992 | Laser printer | Early 600-dpi desktop laser era (early 1990s) | 3 |
| HP DeskJet (Original, 1988) | 1988 | Inkjet printer | Early mass-market inkjet era (late 1980s) | 4 |
| HP ThinkJet (2225, 1984) | 1984 | Inkjet printer | Mid-1980s (early personal inkjet era) | 4 |
| HP LaserJet (Original, 1984) | 1984 | Laser printer | Early desktop laser era (mid-1980s) | 4 |
| IBM3 | ||||
| IBM 1443 (Flying Type Bar Line Printer, 1962) | 1962 | Line printer | Mainframe punched-card computing era (from 1962) | 5 |
| IBM 1403 (Line Printer, 1959) | 1959 | Line printer | Mainframe punched-card computing era (from 1959) | 4 |
| IBM 3800 | 1975 (announced April 15, 1975; first shipped 1976) | High-speed laser printer (mainframe production printer) | 1970s–1990s (IBM System/370 mainframe era) | 4 |
| IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)1 | ||||
| IBM Proprinter | 1985 | Dot matrix printer | Mid-1980s | 6 |
| Lexmark International, Inc.1 | ||||
| Lexmark Optra (1994) | 1994 | Laser printer | Mid-1990s workgroup laser era | 7 |
| Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Muratec / Muratec America)1 | ||||
| Muratec Fax Machines | — | Fax machine series | Office fax and digital-MFP era | 6 |
| NEC Corporation (Nippon Electric Company)1 | ||||
| NEC Spinwriter | 1977 | Letter-quality impact printer (thimble printer) | Late 1970s to 1980s | 6 |
| Oki Data (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.)1 | ||||
| Oki OKIPAGE (LED page printers) | — | LED page printer | Desktop LED page-printer era (1990s to early 2000s) | 5 |
| Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd. (Japan); marketed in the United States by Okidata1 | ||||
| Oki Microline (Okidata ML) | 1979 (ML80, the first Microline model) | Serial impact dot matrix (SIDM) printer | Personal-computer dot-matrix era (late 1970s onward) | 3 |
| Other documented machines11 | ||||
| Desktop vs. Console Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class (form factor) | — | 8 |
| Roll-Feed vs Cut-Sheet Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class | — | 4 |
| Fax / Copier Combination Machines | — | Fax machine class (fax/copier combination) | Plain-paper fax and multifunction-device era | 4 |
| Multifunction Fax Machines (Fax MFPs) | — | Fax machine class | Office all-in-one era (fax common in MFPs, 1980s–2010s) | 6 |
| Inkjet Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class (plain-paper inkjet) | Plain-paper fax era; inkjet fax common from the mid-1990s onward | 5 |
| Laser Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class | Plain-paper fax era (mid-1990s onward) | 6 |
| Plain-Paper Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class | Plain-paper transition (mid-1990s onward) | 5 |
| Thermal-Paper Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class | — | 10 |
| Super G3 Fax Machines | — | Fax machine class (Group 3) | — | 10 |
| Group 4 Fax Machines | 1984 (ITU-T Recommendation T.6 first adopted; current text November 1988) | Fax machine class | Digital (ISDN) fax era | 7 |
| Group 3 Fax Machines (ITU-T T.4 / T.30) | 1980 (standardized by the CCITT, now ITU-T, as Recommendation T.4) | Fax machine class | Digital PSTN facsimile era (1980–present) | 5 |
| Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)2 | ||||
| Panasonic KX-Fax Series | — | Fax machine series | Group 3 facsimile era | 7 |
| Panasonic KX-P1124 | — | Dot-matrix printer | — | 2 |
| Seiko Epson2 | ||||
| Epson Stylus Color | 1994 | Color inkjet printer | 1990s | 2 |
| Epson MX-80 (1980) | October 1980 | Impact dot matrix printer | Early personal-computer era (early 1980s) | 4 |
| Sharp Corporation1 | ||||
| Sharp UX Fax Series | — | Fax machine series | — | 5 |
| Star Micronics2 | ||||
| Star Gemini-10X | c. 1983 (production era) | Dot-matrix printer | Early 1980s (9-pin dot-matrix era) | 3 |
| Star Micronics NL-10 | 1985 | Dot-matrix printer | Mid-1980s (9-pin dot-matrix era) | 4 |
| Tektronix1 | ||||
| Tektronix Phaser (Solid Ink) | 1991 (PhaserJet PXi) | Solid ink (phase-change) color printer | 1990s color desktop printing (Tektronix era) | 5 |
| Teletype Corporation (subsidiary of Western Electric / AT&T)1 | ||||
| Teletype Model 33 | 1963 | Electromechanical teleprinter (computer terminal) | 1960s–1970s data-communications terminal era | 4 |
| Xerox2 | ||||
| Xerox DocuTech (Production Publisher, 1990) | October 2, 1990 | Digital production printing and publishing system | Early digital production printing era (early 1990s) | 3 |
| Xerox 9700 | 1977 | High-volume production laser printer (electronic printing system) | Late 1970s (mainframe data-center era) | 4 |