Gary Keith Starkweather (January 9, 1938 – December 26, 2019)[1] was an American engineer who invented the laser printer and color management.

In 1969, Starkweather invented the laser printer at the Xerox Webster Research Center.

[2][3][4] At Apple Computer in the 1990s, Starkweather invented color management technology[5] and led the development of Colorsync 1.0.

[7] Starkweather also made major contributions to digital matte film techniques.

He won a technical Academy Award in 1994 for his pioneering work with Lucasfilm (and later, Pixar) in the field of color film scanning.