[muglo] Re: printer for G4.
- From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:01:35 -0500
on 3/3/03 11:13 AM, Eurogarth at eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Well I guess if we're splitting hairs then we=B9d have to call most printers
> available today dot-matix, or even more accurate, raster-based: from laser
> to inkjet, electrostatic and thermal, since that's how they all work. Only =
> a
> few very early plotters were point-to-point devices for perfectly straight
> lines and round circles. Of course the even older impact printers were not
> dot-matrix output. I simply used the term to delineate laser from non-laser
> and your Eagle-eyes picked up the error. I'm guessing however, that when yo=
But, by your own definition lasers and inkjets are both dot-matrix so the
term cannot delineate between the two :) :) :)
> u
> mention =B3carbon-copies=B2 you mean impact rather than dot-matrix, as they
> are
> the only devices I=B9m aware of to use carbon paper or chemical equivalents
> between sheets of paper.
There's also a difference between what 95% of the people out there
(including marketers and manufacturers) call dot-matrix and "daisy wheel"
printers. And, plotters aren't impact either (I don't know what you'd call
them) -- they're their own category.
Thermal of course doesn=B9t use carbon paper between
> the sheets making a "true" rather than "carbon" copy. BTW, from around 1989=
> ,
> with the launch of it=B9s DeskJet 5xx=B2C=B2 series, HP offered separate Cyan,
> Magenta, Yellow and Black cartridges... Until Rick Belluzo, who was running
> the HP Printer division at the time, figured out that he could sell a lot
> more cartridges and reduce HP's supply and inventory costs by combining the=
> m
> together, setting the standard for all the inkjet and bubble-jets that soon
> followed.
Except now by Canon. It did seem to me that at one point someone did offer
separate cartridges so I guess my memory wasn't that bad.
> My C42 purchase was for a new machine rather than replacing another printer=
> ,
> but at $49.00, maybe I=B9ll just replace the printer when the ink it came wit=
> h
> runs out.... Still cheaper than replacing just the cartridges!
That's just insane. You could buy the printer, empty the cartridge, & sell
the printer all for the price (or less) of a cartridge.
L8r, Eric.
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