The Xerox Dover laser printer was an early

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manufactured at

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in the late 1970s. Around 35 were built. It was a successor to the EARS printer, itself a successor to the

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. The Dover was developed by Gary Starkweather. The printer was based on a stripped down Xerox 7000 reduction duplicator chassis. Dover printers were in use at several high-profile computer science research labs. A Dover printer was installed at Stanford University's computer science department in 1980, and a Dover printer was available at the

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in 1982, hosted by a

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computer.

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