what is a first  printer
Â» Virtual tour. The HP LaserJet was the first desktop laser printer, introduced in 1984 at about $3,500. Nothing like it existed previously, and it created a totally new printer marketâsimilar to what the HP-35 handheld calculator had done 12 years earlier. In December 2000, HP celebrated the shipment of the 50 millionth LaserJet printer.