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"Inkjet printers cost less than laser printers, but their more expensive ink cartridges means that the ink cost per page is higher. As a result, inkjet printers tend to be more economical in low-volume printing applications, while laser printers tend to be more economical for medium- to high-volume applications.
Inkjet printers are usually preferred in the home or for applications that require photo-realistic reproduction. Laser printers are usually preferred in an office environment with higher printing volume."
I'm going to delete this part. it doesn't have any source and worse then that, IT'S A COMPLETE LIE. you can't compare things like that or make those assumptions. this is wikipedia. FACTUAL information please. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.214.240.234 (talk) 15:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hp Officejet Pro 8600 Black Cartridge Video
Epson DuraBrite?
There was a completely useless sentence which stated that some Epson printers use "special" DuraBrite ink. It's a trademarked name and the sentence adds no information to the article. It sounded more like an advertisement (a poorly done advertisement by the way) so I removed it.
69.156.160.144 (talk) 17:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Usage in ATMs and Cash Registers
I'm not a huge contributer to Wikipedia so I didn't want to make this edit myself. However, in the "General" heading under this article, it is stated that Inkjet printers find common usage in ATMs and Cash Registers. On the contrary, these devices do not use inkjet printers, but a technology that incorporates thermal paper. The print head is similar to a daisy wheel setup which is heated and "burns" the information onto special paper. You can verify this fact by comparing the feel of most receipts you get, they are slightly smoother and more plastic. You can then hold a heat source (such as a lighter flame) underneath them and they will quickly turn black in response.
--Pianist.envy 02:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
History: the HP ThinkJet
How about a bit more on the history, in particular the HP ThinkJet that started the "revolution" away from dot matrix printers once users of microcomputers got their hands on the parallel and serial interface versions? The original ThinkJet had the HPIB (IEEE-488) interface, and was used primarily with test and monitoring equipment.
Print "quality" of the ThinkJet was about as good as draft mode on a 9 pin dot matrix, but the small size (not much wider than a sheet of paper) and lack of noise made it very desirable for low noise environments like hospital rooms.
Canon has used both disposable head and seperate ink tanks and replaceable head technology, sometimes in the same printer where either a high capacity black cartridge with integrated printhead or a replaceable printhead with one tricolor and one black ink tank could be used. Some early Canon inkjets used a fixed head with a hose leading to a very large, black ink tank. (Fixed tanks with hoses to the printheads have been used off and on throughout the history of inkjets.)
Xerox had a short foray into inkjet printers in the early 21st century, marketing a series of low cost printers and multifunction machines with mechanicals made by Sharp. Xerox designed their own outer casings and even customized the firmware to have any instance of "Sharp" replaced with "Xerox". They were decent printers but the advertised 1200DPI printing was only available in Windows 98 and Me. Windows 2000 drivers are available to download but they and the severely limited drivers included with Windows XP limit printing to a maximum of 600DPI. The Xerox inkjets have a bad reliability problem where the color printhead quits printing one of the three colors. (Three out of three for me, one each failing on cyan, magenta and yellow. See also many postings on Usenet.) Otherwise they have good print quality and the ink tanks are very easy to refill by carefully pushing a curved syringe needle through the outlet, past the soft foam.
Epson printers have had a bit of a checkered history with reliability, specifically a tendency for the fixed printheads to clog if the printer wasn't used on a regular basis. Some people have always used Epsons and never had a single head clog, some have gone through several Epsons and had clogs on every one. Epson has also tried to block refilling of their ink tanks through use of microchips.
Hewlett Packard has very recently introduced inkjets that use seperate ink tanks and printheads, some with individual tanks for each color. An older line of HP's used four tanks with integrated printheads and had MIO slots for network interfaces and slots for large amounts of RAM as well as the Adobe PostScript printer control language.
Better explaination required?
I think a small drawing of how the print head works woulnd't do any harm. In fact it would be nice.
i dont think it not sufficet
Article organization
Being an engineer in the ink jet industry, I'd like to organize this article a bit better, and add information about industrial uses of ink jet. (Much of the information is in the article already, but its organization leaves a bit to be desired.) I'd like to end up with several articles about ink jet in general, ink jet for personal use, ink jet for commercial use, and ink jet for industrial use.
I'm going to start with the Technology section, and create a small page for industrial ink jet applications, specifically material deposition.
Jaeger10 21:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Continuous Ink Jet
The Swedish scientist Prof. Carl Hellmuth Hertz of the University of Lund in Sweden is also named as the inventor of the continous inkjet technology. Is there any sources for the claim from Stanford? Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1D7173AF93BA25756C0A9669C8B63
References to my edits: Tech Quarterly: Spitting image, The Economist. London: Sep 21, 2002.Vol.364, Iss. 8291; pg. 24 and http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/19/1/4 and "Digital Spin, Green with Envy", John C. Dvorak, Forbes; January 22, 2001
Dye sublimation
I'm a little confused, because in the section on the types of ink, sublimation dyes are mentioned as a type of inkjet. But then in the discussion on advantages, it mentions dye-sublimation printers as a different thing entirely. Or is this a different type of sublimation than the one mentioned in the inks section? I had added the dye sublimation link, but now I'm second guessing it. --W0lfie 18:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Piezo vs. fixed
Why is "piezo" used parenthetically as if it were a synonym of "fixed"? It seems a little misleading/confusing. If I'm missing something, please let me know. Also, 8 companies are listed as using them. Is that really "very few" as stated earlier in the same sentence? --W0lfie 18:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Commercial Links
I don't understand why the link to http://www.cheap-ink-now.com got removed, its a site full with resources and articles about ink jet printing. please explain --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.143.139.113 (talk o contribs).
Continuous Stream Ink Jet History
The first letter quality continuous stream ink jet printer, the IBM 46/40 Document Printer was developed by IBM and announced in 1977. A good reference on the technology behind this printer can be found in the IBM Journal of research and development Vol 21, No. 1, 1977. This journal references a patent 3576275 (1971) by R. G. Sweet entitled "Fluid Droplet Recorder". Jetpilot77 20:29, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Your point is well taken. I should have checked my facts. I checked the IBM site and they describe the IBM 46/40 Document Printer as being "correspondence quality" and that it was announced in 1976. Most letters in this time frame were typed on a typewriter. "Correspondence quality" was supposed to be equivalent to a typewriter with a fabric ribbon as opposed to a film ribbon. The printer was mono only, 240 dots per inch. It printed at 7.7 in/sec which gives 77 characters per second at 10 pitch or 92 characters per second at 12 pitch. Jetpilot77 14:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Objectivity of this article is extremely questionable
The objectivity of this article is extremely questionable. Sections of this article are bordering on advertising for third party ink manufacturers. The article contains three images showing third party ink solutions which hold no relevance to the subject of "inkjet" technology or to the text they are situated next to.
Recommend sections of this article be re-written and/or deleted. Certainly the third party ink images need to be deleted. Any discussion of third party ink should be directed to a page for 3rd party ink solutions. --Zaphod6502 (talk) 00:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)NOt
Cost of ink, memjet technology, popularity, advantages, disadvantages
I see some problems with this article.
First off, no mention of MemJet technology (from Silverbrook), which they claim is supposed to be on the market in 2009.
Inkjets are OBVIOUSLY by far the most common printer for household users due to their cheap cost (average low-end cost is between $100 and $150 for a color inkjet all-in-one, or $60-$100 for a plain color printer; average cost for a basic black and white laser is $150-$200, basic color laser $300-$400, color all-in-one $500+). As a retail worker, we sell maybe three or four laser machines per week and anywhere from 25-60 inkjets per week, at just our store.
Inkjets also have higher resolution for printing (average inkjet resolution 4800x1200, average laser resolution 600x600 or 1/16th average inkjet; high-end consumer resolution i.e. canon pixma mp830, mx850 9600x2400 average color laser quality under $800 1200x600). Go to the store (take an SD card with you that has a really good photo with lots of different colors, good contrast - lights and darks, and some areas with gentle shading). Pretend you are interested in buying a high quality photo printer and have them put their highest grade photo paper into their highest quality machines in both categories - laser (probably will be an HP AIO) and an inkjet (probably will be an MP8xx series or MX8xx series, make sure it has 9600x2400dpi). Have your photo printed on both machines (8.5x11 paper, of course) at the highest quality and compare them side by side.
I see lots of name-dropping, but only one instance of Brother. Why? They're a large seller.
Also, nothing on Dell printers being made by Lexmark.
Or, nothing about lexmark printers being rated consistently last among their competitors (in overall brand ratings, not specific models) and canons usually being rated first (followed by HP). See PC World Magazine's 2008 ratings, they actually have readers rate instead of editors.
The section on disposable heads, nothing about most all-in-one photo printers having a four, five, or six cartridge system with disposable head, or about all epsons using this system, or no lexmarks (that I know of) using this system, or all kodak's using this system. No mention either of the common ink colors (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, with either a second dye-based black or a light cyan/light magenta combo being common options).
Now to the disadvantages. As far as ink being very expensive, total BS. The numbers about "cost per liter" and "cost per gallon" are useless, because you can get 40 pages per ml of ink (sure, you could buy a gallon of ink with a continuous feed ink system and print 100,000 pages, and it might not cost that much, but who would seriously do that?). I see no mention on here about price depending on the specific cartridge (for example, some HP color ink cartridges can be $20 for 3.5ml of ink, while the HP 88XL Black is usually about $35-$38 for 60ml of ink). In fact, HP's OfficeJet Pro series can has about a 1.5 cent per page cost black (estimated 2,450 pages at $38 retail price). Let's compare to the Brother TN-115 series toner (the high capacity color laser toner for sub-$1000 brother color lasers). The black cartridge prints off 5,000 pages for $93 MSRP - a cost per page of 1.86 cents. Neither of those includes the drum or print head having to be replaced.
As far as lifetime, that largely depends on the paper. Go to the store and look at the back of HP photo paper; you'll see different grades of photo paper, each of which have a different life compared to lab photos (usually listed as longer).
The overall expense section needs redone or removed. It uses biased speech (is costly, expensive replacement, much lower capacity). These are all opinions, not facts, and are generalized.
Also nothing in here about cartridge capacities and yields (only canon currently lists ink amounts in ml on all cartridges, hp is switching to listing page yield and no ml on cartridges, epson brother and lexmark do not have any yield or capacity info on the cartridges, and kodak just lists number of photos - making it impossible to make cost comparisons between manufacturers. Page yield is subjective, only accurate way of comparing cartridge cost is via ml of ink. out of the four that don't list on the cartridges, I know for a fact Kodak doesn't list their cartridge capacity in ml anywhere).
Also, inkjet machines have more features. Average inkjet machine around $200 will have a color screen, multi-cartridge system, card readers, pictbridge support, possibly duplexing and fax, scanning, basic photo editing, and more. Your average $500 AIO color laser will have (for hp, example) a monochrome LCD display, copy/print/scan, and a card reader. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.62.95 (talk) 06:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Sources
This article contained allot of first hand citations of existing products / processes[7]. Citing first hand is original research (WP:OR) and listing products with links to their commercial pages is turning an article into a directory (WP:NOTDIRECTORY) and maybe even spamming (WP:SPAM). Statements should be sourced to secondary and tertiary sources WP:PSTS. 75.197.35.69 (talk) 15:41, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Confusing and likely outdated
Currently we have:
This is confusing and likely outdated. Firstly it's not quite clear what technique this is referring to since the previous sentence isn't referring to any particularly technique. In fact the only really relevant bit is "Printer companies such as HP, Lexmark, and Epson have used patents and the DMCA to launch lawsuits against 3rd-party vendors" I'm pretty sure it's referring to the use of microchips but this isn't clear. Then article then goes on to say the practice is anticompetitive in the EU. I found a ref which mentions the EU parliament made a law forbidding microchipped catridges and also one mentioning the EU commission is investigation but these are from 2002 and I haven't found any more recent info. I'm pretty sure however that any European Commission finding would have been a while ago so it seems likely "this practice" (whatever that is, is it referring to microchipped catridges? or the general practice of trying to stop third party catridges?) has already stopped in the EU. (I also found some refs where the EU actively recommends people recycle catridges and the EU Parliament or perhaps it was the European Commission are now using recycled catridges themselves). The paragraph then goes on to talk about the use of patents, it's not clear if this is okay in the EU. Also I believe that Epson has had some success with the patent method but this isn't exactly clear from the article. Nil Einne (talk) 00:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
19th century?
It says in the lead "The concept of inkjet printing dates back to the 19th century and the technology was first developed in the early 1950s" however this doesn't seem to be explained anywhere. What was the 19th century concept? Richerman (talk) 01:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
"Archival quality" Ink Isn't
I'm not going to add to the article because I can't find anything to cite, but from my own experience: I had a Canon printer with "archival quality" ink and paper, and the color of every single photo I printed turned to complete garbage in less than a year. I'm honestly surprised Google doesn't return any search hits of judgments against Canon (and possibly others) for false marketing claims. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.136.242 (talk) 17:09, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Spelling
Interesting: dictionary.com doesn't define "inkjet" (neither does my Canadian English Firefox spelling dictionary) but it does define "ink jet". I suppose I could go into the next room to find my Longman and get a more sober reference, but it'd also be a 25-year-old one. AngusCA (talk) 07:19, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Aftermarket ink
I removed this paragraph:
The type of ink used in the printer can also affect how quickly the printhead nozzles become clogged. Whereas the OEM ink is engineered to match the printer mechanism, generic inks cannot exactly match the composition of the OEM since the ink composition is a trade secret. Generic ink brands may alternately be too volatile to keep the printhead moist during storage, or may be too thick and jellied, leading to frequent printhead channel clogging.
It reads as if written by the OEM manufacturer, with no source given. Upon more careful reading, it turns out that the statements are likely to be true, but utterly useless. Generic ink "cannot exactly match the composition": indeed, but the paragraph doesn't explicitly state that that is a problem in real life. And then "may alternately be too volatile": again no statement that this is in fact a problem. Han-Kwang (t) 18:17, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Missing Whole Category of Inkjet printers
High speed ink jet printers - used by corporations for printing bills and monthly statements.
These puppies are the fastest printers available. The rate that paper moves through them is measured in miles per hour. --02:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC) -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.214.212.109 (talk)
Here's a link to a company that provides a printer capable of printing at 200 meters/minute {~= 7 1/2 mph). [8] You can probably find faster models.--71.214.212.109 (talk) 03:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Printing costs
The article states that original ink is very expensive and that the cost per page is significantly higher than for a laser printer. This was true a few years ago, however isn't true any more. For the price comparison I use the best price in Germany derived by geizhals.de. I checked only toner/ink costs, no maintenance kits etc. - which is in favor of laser printers. Price is always based on single cartridge.
A few weeks ago, I bought an HP Officejet Pro 8100 (80,50EUR), the corresponding All-in-One is the 8600 Plus (188 EUR), the black/white cardridge costs 21.40 EUR for 2,300 pages, so 0,93 ct./page. The color cartridge costs 16.36 EUR for 1,500 pages, so 1.09 ct./page. If I go through the printing costs of Laser printers, it is extremely hard to find one which is cheaper. I found 1 (one) with cheaper color prints, the Xerox Colorqube 8870DN (1,949 EUR, color 0.38 ct./page, bw 1.06 ct./page), however black and white is already more expensice. The Kyocera FS-C5400DN (1,268 EUR, color 1.10 ct./page, bw 0.77 ct./page) has similar color costs, however less black and white costs. These are both printers, no All-in-one devices. The cheapest printing costs of these has the Lexmark X792 series (from 4,132 EUR, color 1.60 ct./page, bw. 0.97 ct./page). Or if you are more interested in black/white the HP Color Laserjet Enterprise CM4540 series (from 3,665 EUR, color 1.44 ct./page, bw 0.93 ct./page). I do not want to forget to mention that there are inkjet printers with lower printing costs as mine, e.g. the epson B-510DN (490EUR, color 0.69 ct./page, bw 0.71 ct./page).
There are a few black/white laser printers (especially Kyocera FS-4200/4300DN) with printing costs in the range of 0.5 ct/page and less. However, these are only useful for large amounts of b/w prints (also due to their high printing speed).
So laser printers do not have lower printing costs any more. There are a lot of inkjet printers with lower investment and lower printing costs, so the article has to be revised. Does anyone disagree? --JogyB (talk) 15:15, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
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