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The printer cartridges of at the present time can be split into two leading categories, Laser cartridges and Ink cartridges. The difference between the two is great; they're totally varied types of technology. The laser printer cartridge uses a dry powder ink now and again known as toner and the Ink cartridge uses a wet ink.
It is unlikely that the first cave man ever to scratch a picture could see the importance of printing; he could never envisage that thousands of years later man would develop the printing technology and the complete reliance we have on this technology at the present time. The earliest forms of mass repetitive print were the printing press, the oldest press known dates back to 1452, invented by a man called Guttenburg. The stand alone printer we realise at the present time followed much later.
The arrival of laser printers with the dry print technology didn't spell the end for wet ink printing, although the laser printer was good, colour laser printing was not yet developed and there was a void in the industry that Hewlett Packard was about to fill. In 1976 the Inkjet Printer was invented, but it wasn't except 1978 that it became a house user item with the release of the HP Deskjet printer series which sold for a enormous $1000 each.
It has been a long experience from cave drawings to the high quality photographs and documents we can now print ourselves, the skill to be able to print such things at home and in the office is chiefly down to recent advances in inkjet printer and laser printer technology, back in 1938 when Chester Carleson invented the first dry printing job called electro photography (often called Xerox) things started to differ dramatically, Xerox Engineer, Gary Starkweather adapted the existing Xerox printer by adding a laser beam to the reprographics which set the mark for the future of laser printers.
There are also many printer cartridge recycling companies, most printer cartridges can be recycled or refilled at least once. Refilled or remanufactured printer cartridges are often a low charge alternative; many people select refilled cartridges as they're thought of to be a more Eco minded way of printing.
Ever since prehistoric instances man has communicated as a result of a kind of print. What started as obvious-cut pictures or images scratched into a cave wall as a result of a sharp rock or burnt stick has turned into a multibillion pound industry. These days lifestyles wouldn't be the same without the skill to print, everything from bank notes to a bus ticket involves printing of some sort.
At the time other companies were investing time and effort into developing other editions of the laser printer technology. Hewlett Packard and IBM were amongst the front runners in the race to be one of the most innovative imaging company; it was IBM that first brought high speed to the laser printer job with the IBM 3800 Printing System which boasts a printing speed in excess of 100 impressions per minute (impressive for the dot matrix era).
In 1984 Hewlett Packard announced their arrival into the laser printing top spot with the release of their HP Laserjet series of printers which soon became the world's most popular personal computer laser printer. HP developed the first laser printer to have a print resolution of 600 x 600 dpi (dots per inch), the HP Laserjet 4 became extremely popular worldwide and although Hewlett Packard have not manufactured one for years there are still many of them around and the printer cartridges are still in circulation, which is a testomony to the quality of build by Hewlett Packard.
Who knows what the printers of the future will be like, will we still be reliant on the humble ink cartridge, the use of e mail and internet research will have undoubtedly had some effect on the stages of printing but for the foreseeable future there will always be a need for a hard physical copy print of some sort, or at least except the next great innovation of printers and printing technology takes place, we'll simply have to wait and see.........
The manufacture of printing technology has spread and to date there are some varied companies who each have their very own kind of printers and printer cartridges. Hewlett Packard is amongst the biggest companies so too are Lexmark, Canon, Epson and Xerox.
No article on print or printers would be complete without a more in-depth look at the printer cartridge. It wasn't simply the invention of inkjet and laser printers alone that changed the style we print. Lots of effort and probably blood and sweat went into the development of the printer cartridge. Almost every modern printer has a cartridge at the heart of it; without the printer cartridge the printer is useless and vice versa. When HP released their first printer it was the fact that the HP printer cartridges can be easily replaced that played a strong part in its success as a consumer product.
