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...many cost-minded managers are acutely aware, the ubiquitous office copier is just as handy for duplicating Aunt Tillie's strudel recipe as for running off copies of business mail. Now Manitou Systems Inc. of Bensenville, ., is offering a way of preventing office workers, as President Paul Leopold puts it, from "thinking of the copier in the same way they think of the water fountain." The company has developed a device, easily attached to any copier, that switches the machine on only when the user inserts a plastic identification card issued by his employer. The apparatus is hooked...
...billion, but its profits suffered their first decline -a gossamer 1.8% before write-offs, to $342 million-since 1951, when Xerox was a small photographic-paper maker, known as the Haloid Co., in Rochester. Worldwide recession contributed to the decline, as did start-up costs for a new copier and the company's 800-model high-speed office typewriter...
...Xerox is also getting some unaccustomed competition from fellow corporate titans. Shielded by a patent structure that seemed impenetrable, Xerox for a decade monopolized the field of "plain paper" office copying. Other companies made copiers-some under license from Xerox-but their machines required specially treated paper. In 1970, however, IBM came out with a plain-paper copier of its own, touching off a still unsettled suit by Xerox that charges 22 infringements of its patents. Last year Xerox assured itself of still more trouble by deciding not to fight a longstanding Government antitrust suit and instead signing a Federal...
Rivals promptly began lining up to chip away at Xerox's 70% chunk of the U.S. office-copier market. IBM last month introduced a third line of copiers. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. is planning a massive sales effort for its new plain-paper VHS copiers. Last week Eastman Kodak Co. weighed in with its Ektaprint 150 series, a supersophisticated elaboration of the Ektaprint 100 machine first marketed last fall. At the touch of a few buttons, the most expensive machine in Kodak's new line arranges multipage documents and copies, collates and staples them-all at the rate...
...Xerox officials, with their usual air of confidence, do not appear excessively worried by the new competitive threat. They note that the company has long expected the copier market to become quickly saturated, even though sales are still growing. Saturation, says Archie McCardell, Xerox's No. 2 executive, behind Chairman C. Peter McColough, "will happen but much more slowly than we thought...