Gary Starkweather (1938–2019), inventor of the laser printer

Gary Starkweather was an engineer and inventor best known for designing the first laser printer. Starkweather was working for Xerox in 1969 when he began working on a system to transmit information from one copy machine to another. This work led to his development of the laser printer, and he was a part of the design team for the first laser printing system two years later. Within a few decades, the technology was in offices and homes across America. Later, while working for Apple, Starkweather invented color management technology, which allows color to display similarly across different devices.