Inkjet History
(From: John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com).)
The original ink jet printer of this type was the
Teletype Inktronic, which introduced the concept of
video-type distortions to printing. It appeared
around 1970, and was so bad nobody tried again for
years.
(From: Tony Hardman (AHED_CIJ@f54x19.demon.co.uk).)
I guess that is why it was used in industrial
applications I guess. Were the 'video-type
distortions' a deliberate feature or just a
coincidence of how they turned out?
Who are/were Inktronic???(apologies to anyone
connected with them) I guess that may have been spin
off development from some work contracted out by
IBM, but it was so....?? (costly/low res/unreliable
- choose one) they lost interest. Although one of
the very early machines still runs well on a textile
mill. It had a large number of jets side by side,
and may be multi color too. I've only seen the
patents so don't know exactly what it looks like.
I thought original ink jet printer was a chart
recorder developed in the last century. It was just
a nozzle on deflection mechanism, and was not
modulated so it was always printing. It was a
lighter mechanism than actually trying to move a pen
and so had some performance advantages over other
technology available at the time...
The same reason CIJ still sells world wide, even
when high resolution DOD is biting at its heals.
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