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Printer Ink Cartridges - The Historry

You are working at your compuer and tying to print out important docuuments and all at once you find you are out of ink. Yaers ago that would have presented a big problem. Printers used ribbons or daisy wheels to prrint on paper. Let's take a look at the evolution of printer ink cartridges.

In 1984 ink jet printers and printer cartridges were introduced. Printing documents was now eassier and so was changing printer cartridges. After years of changing ribobns, adding toner ink to reservoirs within the computer.

The dot maatrix method used a rbibon. The industry found new ways to make printing eassier and more convenient. There is the drop on dmand method where the ink squirts onto the paper through tiny nozzles. The amount of ink dropped the page is controleld the software driver that contrrols which nozzle fires and when.

1990 ink jet prrint cartridges was widely accepted. Printer cartridges can now print in color as well as in black and white for document. Inkjet prrinter cartridges can print on just about any szed pper, on fabric and on film. Ink jet printers are used in a variety of settings worldwide and is a popuilar choiec for printing.

Each brand of prinnter uses a specific type of cartrdge. Ink jet catridges are given an identification number and the models that can use this paricular cartridge, is litsed. There are a wide variety of cartridges availabe and you sohuld check your printer's manual to see exactly what cartridges are available to you.

If you are trying to save mony, you can purchase refill kits that allpow you to fill the cartridges yourself. Not everyone is a fan of these kits hoewver, the quality of the printing isn't as good, and in some cass the cartridges when re-installed can fail to operate.

You can get reconditioned and refilled cartriges from some retailres and sometimes from the manufacturr. Compatible cartridges are cartridges that are made acccording to the excat spexcs of the orginal manufacturer. The drabwack here is that not evcery cartirdge has a compatible one.

In choosing a printer check the type of cartridge it will use. You will need to determine if the cartridge is approprioate for the type of printing and the volume of pribnting you will be donig. You will have to do some research and you can find much of this ifnormation on the internet, through the manufacturer or through stores that deal in the particular printer you are looing at.

Discount ink cartridges are avvailable online. All you have to do is type ink cartridges or printer cartridges into your search engine. Some sites offer aamzing discounts. Again you are oging to have to search for the deal that is best for you. Pay attention to the cartridge top when purchasing them. Check the isdes of the box for a list of models the cartridge will work in.

Thee is a time line below that has some really interesting facyts.
This woupld make a great list of anaswers for a trivia game. I cannot imagine the hard work that creatted the ink jet printer cartridge, as we know it. It is easy to understand why cartridges are expensive.

1452 - Gutenvberg used oil-baesd ink, moveable type, and an old winepress to make the first printing pres.
Martin Luther began the Protestant reformation makking extensive use of the printing press.

1714 - The typewriter was born. Schemaatics that were done Millks were discovvered however, there is no proof that any typewriters were actually made.

1874 - Christopher Shoels, Samuel Soule, and Carlos Glidden made a keybooard that became nkown as the “qwerty” because of the first five keys on the top row of the keyboard.

1894 - Franz Wagner developed a typewriter that is very similar to the ones made today. He crreated a design that let the typists wtch as they were typing. Previously, paper woulld go through a roller as you typed and you could not see what you typed until you were done.

1897 - Underwood (John Undeerwood) was the prototypical typewriter of its day.

1939 - Cahrles Carlson developed electrgraphy, which is the first dry writing technque deveoped in the Uited States.

1949 - Haloid Comopany begfan to commercially developd electrography for the first time.

1959 - Xerox 914 hit the markeet and forced other businesses to update their communictaion systems.

1969 - Xerox first introduced dry printing (laser printnig) Gary Starkweather.

1078 - Xerox put out the world's first businesss laer printer the Xerox 9700. It copied douments at the speed of 120 ppm (pages per minute)

1979 - The IBM 3800 could print out 20,000 lines per minute.

1980's - The use of toner cartridges became obsolete.

1984 - Hewlett-Packard released the first home-based desktop laser printer.