Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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Original Article: www.pcmag.com by M. David Stone
Over the more than 20 years that I've been covering printers, stretching back to before PC Magazine's first blockbuster printer issue in 1984, the field has changed a lot. Lasers and ink jets long ago replaced daisy wheels and dot matrix in the home and office; color printers, once rare, have all but taken over; photo printers have gone from being nonexistent to being on the verge of making commercial film printing obsolete; and speeds for desktop printers have grown by an order of magnitude and then some. But all of those changes are nothing compared with what may be about to happen.
As I'm writing this, the dust has yet to settle from the recent introduction of the Memjet printing technology at the 2007 Global Ink Jet Printing Conference. There's still skepticism surrounding Memjet from people who rightly believe that when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. But if Memjet really delivers what it promises, its impact on printing and on the printing industry will be huge.