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Personal inkjet printer — Hewlett-Packard

1984 AD · Transmission: Global
InformationInventionNorth American

The 1984 HP ThinkJet brought inkjet printing to the home desktop and small office. If the laser printer consolidated professional digital printing, inkjet democratized accessible color printing: low noise, low cost per unit, compact form factor. Inkjet technology had been developed in parallel by Canon, Epson, and HP during the 1970s; the ThinkJet and the later DeskJet line are the point where that research becomes a mass market. In the long chain of printing, inkjet is the last link before physical printing ceases to be the dominant form of information reproduction.

InstitutionHewlett-Packard
Historical regionUnited States
Primary sourceLaunch of the HP ThinkJet, first personal desktop inkjet printer, 1984.
Secondary sourceHewlett-Packard — corporate history of the ThinkJet / DeskJet line
Original languageEnglish
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