The Display Copier's Liquid Crystal Display Interfaces with Copy Machine
Robert W. Lester · Information Display · 1984
THE INFORMATION DISPLAY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN ANXIOUS TO REPLACE THE CRT WITH FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS SUCH AS THIS ONE YOU'RE LOOKING AT. ADVANTAGES OF LIQUID CRYSTAL FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS OUER CATHODE RAY TUBES ARE AS FOLLOWS: THE CRT TAKES TWENTY TIMES MORE SPACE THAN A FLAT PANEL DISPLAY. THE CRT NEIGHS AT LEAST TEN TIMES MORE THAN THE FLAT PANEL DISPLAY. THE CRT REQUIRES A FIFTEEN TO TWENTY‐FIVE THOUSAND VOLTS STEPUP TRANSFORMER. THE CRT USES AVERAGE ONE HUNDRED WATTS AT ONE HUNDRED TWENTY VOLTS. THE LC DISPLAY USES LESS THAN ONE WATT AT ONLY ONE VOLT. STATIC SYSTEMS CORPORATION HAS DEVELOPED A PRINTING SYSTEM ALLOWING LETTERS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS TO BE PRINTED BY ANY FLAT BED PHOTOCOPIER. THE STATIC‐TYPER SYSTEM UTILIZES REFLECTIVE TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS WHICH ARE IMAGED BY PLACING THE DISPLAY ON THE COPY MACHINE OR BUILDING IT INTO A REPLACEABLE COVER ADAPTER. THE WORD PROCESSOR USER TYPES THE TEXT DOCUMENT AND AFTER EDITING SAME INPUTS THE TEXT TO THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ON THE COPIER. THIS SYSTEM NOT ONLY ELIMINATES NOISY EXPENSIVE SPACE‐CONSUMING PRINTERS BUT PAYS FOR ITSELF IN A FEW YEARS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE IS COUPLING TO A TELEPHONE DATA UNIT TO SEND OR RECEIVE TO REMOTE COPIERS ANYWHERE THEREBY ELIMINATING TELETYPE AND TELEX MACHINES. GRAPHIC QUALITY DISPLAYS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN THE HEAR FUTURE ALLOWING THE USE OF A DIGITIZING SCANNER TO TRANSMIT PICTURES, SIGNATURES, DRAWINGS AND SO FORTH. SIMPLY PUSHING THE BUTTON FOR THE NUMBER OF COPIES DESIRED WOULD ALLOW THE MILLIONS OF EXISTING COPIERS TO BE CONVERTED INSTANTLY TO WORD PROCESSING PRINTERS YET STILL RETAINING THE FUNCTION OF DUPLICATING ORIGINALS WITHOUT ALTERING COPIER.