It was founded in 1969 by John E. Blackert (Xerox) and Lawrence P. Albertson (Kodak) as Photographic Sciences Corporation in Webster, New York (a suburb of Rochester).
Littlejohn & Co., a private equity firm, purchased all of the company's senior and subordinated debt of $124 million.
[1] During the reorganization PSC spun off its software division, IntelliTrack to private investors.
On October 24, 2005, Datalogic announced [2] that it had signed a binding contract for the takeover of the entire capital stock of PSC Inc.
Datalogic decided to retain some of the PSC product brand names including Magellan, Duet, Falcon, PowerScan, and QuickScan.