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(From: Peter (hedgieus@yahoo.com).)
Here are history/trivia. (I used to work at Xerox marking technology group, working on ink-jets and daisy printers.)
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* Type 1 (or “push”) ejects continuous stream (under pressure). The discovery goes back to Hertz (one who has the unit named after him) and theory is described in […]

“I use a HP680C in the office, and it have two cartridges, one for black and one for color (yellow/cian/magenta?). If the printer fire one drop of each ink at a given point, we can have only 6 different colors (ignoring white and black). If it can fire two or more drops at a given […]

Inkjet Printer Cartridge Type and Reliability
Here are a couple of opinions. (From: Al Savage (asavage@iname.com).)
Having worked at Epson, Canon, and HP warranty service centers, I tell anyone who asks me for advice about buying an ink jet printer to always choose one where getting more ink also gets you a fresh printhead. The number one […]

(From: Tony Hardman (AHED_CIJ@f54×19.demon.co.uk).)
There is a US publication called ‘The Hard Copy OBSERVER’ from Lyra Research Inc. Tel: (617) 322-0708.
This discusses the latest technologies and who does what. It may not cover the print head technology very much but is a good read if you are into print technology in general.
There are many companies that […]

(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@f54×19.demon.co.uk).)
I guess that is why it was used in industrial applications I guess. Were the ‘video-type […]