Chester’s invention helped influence people to make better versions of the xerography. Other companies saw this and thought it was a good idea and started to make there own version of the xerography. Xerox(the company who help bring the xerography to life) started to getting competition with other companies such as epson and had to make better versions of the xerography. But xerox had to shut down there business on December 31,2016 and removing them self out of the competition. The xerography got improve as time went on and made it more easy to print copies in a minute or less. “In the nearly seven decades since Chester Carlson thought of xerography, no one has come up with a better way of making copies on plain paper” (Owen). “That is an almost inconceivable achievement, given the usual pace of high technology innovation, evolution and extinction” (Owen). Chester help influence people to write about him and about the xerography in books or articles.