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Xerox has had a peer review by Wikipedia editors which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

It seems on June 1st 2006, User:212.219.94.65 deleted a lot of information without reason, such as an Office Paper section. I suggest putting some of this back. - Jazzmaphone

The "Buyout"- what exactly is it and when did it take place?

Uh. Can someone tell me how do you call putting Xerox copies on the walls of buildings?

Suggested updates:

1. "The Document Company" was recently dropped as a slogan.
2. Although Xerox certainly does well with photocopiers, we do plenty with printers, too. Although it is possible to use some of the high-volume Xerox printers--the DocuColor 6060 springs to mind--as copiers, they are mostly used as direct-from-computer printers.
3. Xerox acquired the printer division of Tektronix in 1999. This is mentioned in the Tektronix article, but not the Xerox article. Most of the acquired products are non-xerographic process printers.
4. Xerox also develops and markets standalone software products, DocuShare being an example.

As a current employee of Xerox, I know enough to recuse myself from editing the article for a number of reasons. That said, I'd appreciate it if somebody more impartial incorporated the aforementioned changes. I fear that if I attempt to do it myself, I will spin it too much. I am making this request of my own will, and do not do so as an official representative of the Corporation. Any other good disclaimers you can think of, I'd probably like to apply those, too. Thank you! Ventura 23:16, 2004 Oct 8 (UTC)

ILB:

1. The company Logo is changed as well.
2. Another Xerox software product seems to be important to mention: FlowPort
3. Xerox also provides consulting services as Xerox Global Services, that drives companies to better business by applying of the process innovation.

The information flow intensive business processes such as record management, customer communications, billing and training are the example field of the Xerox Global Service improving activity.

1. I would find it very appropriate if the enrties for "DocuShare", "FlowPort", "Xerox Global Services" and "XGS" would be included as well

I am joining to the disclaimer above.

I've made some of these changes -- I have no connection whatsoever with Xerox, so this ought to make everybody happy! --Christofurio 20:38, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

The article suggested Xerox dropped "The Document Company" prior to aquiring Tektronix (according to Xerox Factbook in 2000). The corporate signature was phased out in 2004. Xerox sold portion of stake in Fuji Xerox in 2001 - now owns 25%. Adjusted article accordingly. DarkHorseEurope 13:19, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Added the photo of Xerox paper. I'm sure someone can substitute it for something more interesting, but it's free from copyright.DarkHorseEurope 23:46, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm thinking of adding the (copywrited) Xerox-logo and the so called "capabilities line". I'll remove these logos as soon as I can get my hands on a nice Xerox-logo I can take a picture of. Zigibumbala 05 Jul 2005

THE XEROX PAGE IS A COMMERCIAL PRESENTATION !!

• Agreed -- compare to the IBM article -- another high-profile company with a long and important history. I added rewrite tag because I think this article could use some serious overhauling.

Another agree. Why is the first subsection called "Diversity?" It's basically a plug for Xerox. I'm not going to erase it, but it seems somewhat inappropriate. - Pingveno 21:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Huge cleanup 2 Lack of references 3 Mistakes 4 Xerox inkjet printers

[edit] Huge cleanup

I've performed a huge cleanup on this article, removing POV, restoring some old information and adding a lot of new information. Now the article needs more photos, and references. Anyone interested in helping? — Wackymacs 17:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of references

I've seen "Copies in Seconds," and it is a fine technical history. In fact, I passed it on to my father, who worked at Xerox' Orchard Street factory, fresh out of the Navy in the late 1950s. However, this Wikipedia article really needs a list of books and monographs giving the business history of the company. Xerox rode the plain-paper copier revolution to fame and fortune, and lost big due to some poor managerial decisions. MWS 18:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mistakes

I think the innovations and ideas formed at Xerox Parc and the subsequent rejection of them by management should have more emphasis. In the history of technology companies, I think that stands out as probably one of the biggest blunder ever. --66.171.76.140 17:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xerox inkjet printers

Xerox made an ill-fated venture into inkjet printers by using engines made by Sharp, wrapping them in Xerox designed housings and replacing the Sharp name with Xerox everywhere in the firmware and software. As printers go, they were decent machines and pretty fast. The multifunction devices had a good scanner on them.

Then the problem started cropping up. Sharp's color printhead was a bad design. Eventually one out of the three colors would begin to lose nozzles, followed quickly by total failure of that color. (I had three Xerox injkets, one each with defective Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.)

Rather than do anything like working with Sharp to fix the printhead problem and issue a recall or refunds or discounts for an exchange of the bad printheads with an improved reliability design, Xerox chose to cut and run. The inkjet line was discontinued soon after the Windows 2000 drivers were released. Minimal functionality drivers were included with Windows XP.

There's another problem with these inkjets. Advertised as 1200 DPI, the Windows 2000 and XP drivers only support a maximum of 600 DPI printing.

Xerox could still be making good inkjet printers, if they'd chosen to take their lumps on the printhead problem instead of dropkicking the whole thing. (And acting rather snotty about it when I called tech support!) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.136.145.243 (talk) 08:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC).