GENICOM

In 1982, GE sold the printer and relays groups and the company was formed as the GENICOM Corporation in 1983. The 1987 purchase of the printer business assets of Centronics added the 350 series dot matrix printers and the LineWriter series of band printers to their product line.

During these years Genicom leased offices in Calabasas, California. At this facility development was being conducted on a 400 dot per inch monochrome laser printer. In the early 1990s, GENICOM's headquarters and corporate offices were moved from Waynesboro, VA to Chantilly, Virginia.

In January 1995, the purchase of Printer System Corporation (PSC), a small developer of IBM interfaces in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was announced. PSC President Art Gallo joined GENICOM as a vice president. PSC became GENICOM 's laser development group and began producing GENICOM printers using Lexmark and Kentek engines.

In 1996 Texas Instruments printer business was purchased, giving GENICOM a line of airline ticket, boarding pass and baggage tag printers.

In August 1997, GENICOM purchased the printer division of Digital Equipment Corporation for $27 million and produced printers under both the GENICOM and Digital logos. Compaq purchased Digital in February 1998 and new products were then branded with the Compaq logo. The relays group was sold to CII Technologies (since acquired by Tyco International) and soon moved to North Carolina.

In 1997 new 320,000-square-foot (30,000 m2) repair facility was built in Louisville, Kentucky and operations were moved from Waynesboro. The Louisville operation proved unprofitable and was closed in April 2000.

GENICOM upgraded their old ASK/CA Manman database to Oracle; the project was budgeted for $6 million but cost $20 million by 1999.