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==Technology== [[File:Laser from printer2.jpg|thumb|Laser head from [[HP LaserJet 5]]L printer]] Most HP LaserJet printers employ [[Xerography|xerographic]] laser-marking engines sourced from the Japanese company [[Canon Inc.|Canon]]. Due to a tight turnaround schedule on the first LaserJet, HP elected to use the controller already developed by Canon for the CX engine in the first LaserJet.<ref name="hall">{{cite web |url=http://www.hparchive.com/seminar_notes/HP_LaserJet_The%20Early%20History_by_Jim_Hall_110512.pdf |title=HP LaserJet-The Early History |author=Jim Hall |year=2011 |access-date=June 6, 2011 |publisher=Hparchive.com}}</ref> In spring of 1989 ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that HP "dominates" the PC laser printer market.<ref name=IIPNYT1989/> The first LaserJet and the first [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[LaserWriter]] used the same print engine, the Canon CX engine.<ref name="printerworks.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.printerworks.com/Catalogs/CX-Catalog/CX-HP_LaserJet.html |title=TPW β CX Printers- Hewlett-Packard |publisher=Printerworks.com |access-date=November 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715113019/http://www.printerworks.com/Catalogs/CX-Catalog/CX-HP_LaserJet.html |archive-date=2011-07-15 |url-status=dead}}</ref> HP chose to use their in-house developed [[Printer Command Language]] (PCL) as opposed to Apple, which adopted the [[PostScript]] language, as developed by [[Adobe Systems]]. The use of a less-ambitious and simpler [[Page description language]] allowed HP to deliver its LaserJet to the market about a year before Apple's CX based product, and for $1000 less.<ref name="hall"/> The sharing of an identical Canon engine in two competing products continued with the LaserJet II/III and the Apple LaserWriter II, which both used the Canon LBP-SX print engine.
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