Still, it was a Xerox-style victory, Pyrrhic at best. Although the committee accepted laser technology, it rejected Goldman’s appeal to build laser-adapted Model 7000 copiers, as Starkweather had done. This would have allowed the company to market a laser printer within a year. The panel decided instead to wait until the launch of Xerox’s next generation of high-speed copiers, the 9000 series—which was not scheduled for another three years. It was a perilous delay. The plan to commercialize the laser printer would be killed and resurrected three times in that period, saved only by the
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