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A bit of ink-jet 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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