The history of Canon - MEAP

[Guest]

Hi guys! Recently I have looked for some information about the MEAP of Canon. But I've got some questions on it. I know MEAP is a software development kit, and it was developed by Canon in 2003. So how Canon's competitors(e.g. Xerox, Ricoh, Konica) deal with it? I read an atricle that it says "Canon was the first manufacturer in the industry to launch an MFP software development platform in 2003". It sounds Canon was very successful on it. I hope to know more about the competition between those printer's companies. Also, I have heard a software called EIP which is from Xerox. Is it published to against Canon's MEAP? Or the other companies just simply buy the license of MEAP from Canon? Hope you guys help !
P.S. I'm not a native English speaker. Sorry for my bad grammar.

[teckat]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

XEROX has been many steps behind Canon the past 10 years when it comes to customers solutions -

Same candy>different wrapper ~~

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

XEROX has been many steps behind Canon the past 10 years when it comes to customers solutions -

Same candy>different wrapper ~~

But we also know that XEROX was the FIRST company to introduce the now popular Print Management Solutions (MPS) to this industry, with others now following suit! Doesn't this indicate that they could be ahead of the game? Not to forget that they were actually inventors of the photocopiers.

[Brian8506]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

Are you a copier tech or just gathering info?

Hi guys! Recently I have looked for some information about the MEAP of Canon. But I've got some questions on it. I know MEAP is a software development kit, and it was developed by Canon in 2003. So how Canon's competitors(e.g. Xerox, Ricoh, Konica) deal with it? I read an atricle that it says "Canon was the first manufacturer in the industry to launch an MFP software development platform in 2003". It sounds Canon was very successful on it. I hope to know more about the competition between those printer's companies. Also, I have heard a software called EIP which is from Xerox. Is it published to against Canon's MEAP? Or the other companies just simply buy the license of MEAP from Canon? Hope you guys help !
P.S. I'm not a native English speaker. Sorry for my bad grammar.

[teckat]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

But we also know that XEROX was the FIRST company to introduce the now popular Print Management Solutions (MPS) to this industry, with others now following suit! Doesn't this indicate that they could be ahead of the game? Not to forget that they were actually inventors of the photocopiers.

XEROX did not invent photocopiers -

In 1907, the Photostat copy machine was invented by Oscar Gregory in Kansas City.
In the 1940s, offices used copy machines like the Kodak Verifax, a photo-direct copy machine.
A Thermo-Fax copier was invented by Dr. Carl Miller and produced by 3M in 1950.
In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. Carlson had invented a copying process based on electrostatic energy. Xerography became commercially available in 1950 by the Xerox Corporation.
The first commercial model of the XEROX was not introduced until 1960.

ask XEROX techs what happened to their pensions / notice their reaction

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

XEROX did not invent photocopiers -

In 1907, the Photostat copy machine was invented by Oscar Gregory in Kansas City.
In the 1940s, offices used copy machines like the Kodak Verifax, a photo-direct copy machine.
A Thermo-Fax copier was invented by Dr. Carl Miller and produced by 3M in 1950.
In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. Carlson had invented a copying process based on electrostatic energy. Xerography became commercially available in 1950 by the Xerox Corporation.
The first commercial model of the XEROX was not introduced until 1960.

ask XEROX techs what happened to their pensions / notice their reaction

According to WIKIPEDIA...''History of the photocopiers'', IT was an American physicist called CHESTER CARLSON who invented the photocopier (Electrophotography) in 1937. He patented it 'XEROGRAPHY' on 18th October 1937. He had problems getting "sponsors'' to develop his product, Until the 'HALOID COMPANY', an electrophotography company took up the challenge to develop chester Carlson's '' Xerography'' process, introducing the FIRST COPIER in 1949, & named it 'XEROX Model A'.
From HALOID XEROX (1955), the company shortened its name to ''XEROX'' in 1961...and later evolved into the ''XEROX CORPORATION'' we know today. This info is freely available on the internet.

[teckat]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

According to WIKIPEDIA...''History of the photocopiers'', IT was an American physicist called CHESTER CARLSON who invented the photocopier (Electrophotography) in 1937. He patented it 'XEROGRAPHY' on 18th October 1937. He had problems getting "sponsors'' to develop his product, Until the 'HALOID COMPANY', an electrophotography company took up the challenge to develop chester Carlson's '' Xerography'' process, introducing the FIRST COPIER in 1949, & named it 'XEROX Model A'.
From HALOID XEROX (1955), the company shortened its name to ''XEROX'' in 1961...and later evolved into the ''XEROX CORPORATION'' we know today. This info is freely available on the internet.

already posted that/ Carlson formulated Xerography (or electrophotography) which is a dry photocopying technique invented by Chester Carlson


The Photostat machine, or Photostat, was an early projection photocopier created in the 1900s by the Photostat CorporationRectigraph Company.


George C. Beidler of Oklahoma City founded the Rectigraph Company in 1906 or 1907, producing the first photographic copying machines; he later moved the company to Rochester, NY in 1909 to be closer to the Haloid Company, his main source of photographic paper and chemicals.


The Rectigraph Company was acquired by the Haloid Company in 1935. In 1948 Haloid purchased the rights to produce Chester Carlson's xerographic equipment and in 1958 the firm was reorganized to Haloid Xerox, Inc., which in 1961 was renamed Xerox Corporation.^[1] Haloid continued selling Rectigraph machines into the 1960s.

The Photostat machine was invented in Kansas City by Oscar Gregory in 1907, and the Photostat Corporation was incorporated in Rhode Island in 1911, later establishing an office and factory in Rochester in 1921. The company had a licensing and manufacturing relationship with Eastman Kodak. The Photostat Corporation was eventually absorbed by Itek in 1963.

Both Rectigraph and Photostat machines consisted of a large camera that photographed documents or papers and exposed an image directly onto rolls of sensitized photographic paper that were about 350 feet (110 m) long. A prism was placed in front of the lens to reverse the image. After a 10-second exposure, the paper was directed to developing and fixing baths, then either air- or machine-dried. The result was a negative print, which took about two minutes in total to produce, which could in turn be photographed to make any number of positive prints.
The photographic prints produced by such machines are commonly referred to as "photostats".

The verbs "Photostat", "photostatted", and "photostatting" refer to making copies on such a machine in the same way that the trademarked name "Xerox" was later used to refer to any copy made by means of electrostatic photocopying.
People who operated these machines were known as photostat operators.

It was the expense and inconvenience of photostats that drove Chester Carlson to study electrophotographyxerography

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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Thanks teckat for that bit of history. Although it seems WITHOUT the considerable input & efforts of that 'HALOID' company....(XEROX), probably the photocopier industry would not be as we know it today.

[KenB]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

All this and nobody ever mentioned what MEAP is: Multifunction Embedded Application Platform.

MEAP alone does not get you anywhere; it's like having an OS on your computer with no programs.

In a nutshell, it is Java for the machine, and vendors can write Java based applications for it (along with permission from Canon and paying for the privilege, of course).

Far and away, eCopy ShareScan Embedded is the most popular, but there are, and have been a number of others.

(For what it's worth, this is what Ricoh does with their Java card.)

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

All this and nobody ever mentioned what MEAP is: Multifunction Embedded Application Platform.MEAP alone does not get you anywhere; it's like having an OS on your computer with no programs.In a nutshell, it is Java for the machine, and vendors can write Java based applications for it (along with permission from Canon and paying for the privilege, of course).Far and away, eCopy ShareScan Embedded is the most popular, but there are, and have been a number of others.(For what it's worth, this is what Ricoh does with their Java card.)

Thanks KenB for 'panel beating' us back into the line. We seem to have veered off the target issue. Anyway personally I haven't gone much into this MEAP thing apart from its 'BASIC' definitions. But I will very soon ''catch up'' with it.

[teckat]

Re: The history of Canon - MEAP

All this and nobody ever mentioned what MEAP is: Multifunction Embedded Application Platform.

MEAP alone does not get you anywhere; it's like having an OS on your computer with no programs.

In a nutshell, it is Java for the machine, and vendors can write Java based applications for it (along with permission from Canon and paying for the privilege, of course).

Far and away, eCopy ShareScan Embedded is the most popular, but there are, and have been a number of others.

(For what it's worth, this is what Ricoh does with their Java card.)

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