Apple laser printer business was printing money. Apple was buying Canon engines and outsourcing RIP to Adaptec. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laser

Apple laser printer business was printing money. Apple was buying Canon engines and outsourcing RIP to Adaptec. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_printer_is_made_by_adaptec https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_p... Oral History of Grant Saviers, part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/04/102795787-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... "We actually made the imager, the raster imaging guts for the Apple LaserWriter. And I was just fascinated by Apple's business model. They shipped, drop shipped from I guess it was Fuji or from Ricoh or Cannon. I guess it was Cannon. They bought the Cannon engine with no controller and they told us when to ship the controller, the power cord and the manuals in a box for the customer to put it into the printer. So they never touched the printer at all. It was a brilliant <laughs> business model. No inventory. <laughs> No payables, you know, all receivables. <laughs> "