Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've never owned an inkjet printer. The
whole idea smacks too much of
King
Gillette.
Nah, my favorite "cheezy" printing technology has always been thermal
transfer. Nothing beats waiting from 12 to 35 minutes for a C64 to
print out a full page in color, on curled paper, smelling very much like
hot wax. You can smell the quality!
I worked on the design of a thermal dye transfer printer many years
ago. It doesn't *have* to be slow -- we printed a 400dpi page
in 11 seconds -- a decent speed for that era.
Problem with the technology is the HUGE power requirements
(our prototype power supply had *batteries* in it to handle
the peak currents :> ).