Ugh. I had a DeskJet 600 - it was either a monochrome or colour. It came with a little box to keep the colour or black ink cartridge in when not in use. It was a very expensive to run printer, and it died after a couple of years probably due to the cheap construction. But then it was the early 90's, and at the time it was pretty awesome.
I had the Canon Bubble Jet and I was infuriated that I couldn't get color output with it printing documents from Ventura Publisher at the time. It was the shortest lived printer and first color one I ever owned around that time period.
The ironic thing is that the HP guy says in the video that they cured the head clogging problem by integrating the head into the cartridge. I owned HP printers of this type that reliably ran until I could no longer buy cartridges for them. These days virtually all of HP's printers have fixed print heads and easily clog. My last HP inkjet didn't make it a year before an unrecoverable clog occurred. This was not one of their low end printers and cost me hundreds of dollars. That was the final straw for me on inkjets in general. I finally switched to an alternate company's color laser and have not had a single printing problem since (coming up on 3 years). I am also still on the original set of toner cartridges after printing a couple thousand pages.
I remember getting my first colour inkjet, an Epson Stylus Color II, in the mid 90s and it seemed just amazing technology. I was printing stuff and showing my friends in the pub, fake "magazine covers" and so on. Real sensawunda stuff. I mean it was only a decade or so on from pootling about on a ZX Spectrum.
out of memory damn I have never had that issue ever with my current computer mind you I have 128 gbs of ram so yeah I doubt a printers going to use up that much memory
I had a similar HP 500C to the HP550. I did my degree on it and wore this out. Took ages when coupled with Ambra 386sx , 25 Meg hertz to do a colour picture 25 minutes in fact.
I believe it's because there would be no economic viability of selling a printer at competitive prices unless you also ran the ink/toner supply. It's no secret that printers are sold by the major brands at below market prices, often substantially so, as they make-up for the loss through ink/toner sales. Chinese knock-off companies would have zero ability to have the same level of distribution access as the major players do in selling the cartridges at the local store level.
2:45 bit optimistic.. It's been solver 30 years later since color laser printers became less expensibe but still. If you wont buy Epson,Brother or Canon Ink Jet's with CIS built in ~$250-350 you would pay $30 per 4ml of HP Inks - witch is more costly than some advanced drugs to heal cancer or what have you. Even Epson blocked their inks worth $1 per 7ml (XP-205 -> XP-215 and newer) introduced exactly same cartridge slightly different shape for 10$ per colour up to 30$ depending on model. Hopefully print head is not built in you can buy self reseting replacements or just purchase CIS Label printers DYMO, Brother, Zebra and 3D printers.. its also interesting topic. For example DYMO wich i have (must have device) is cheep device but cartriges are veeery expensive yet it would be possible to put 20m of tape instead 4m there is room for it they put as little as possible to charge you $5-10 per one. But what can you do about it..
That's not a technological problem at all, those are software locks. You can refuel those cartridges and hack those printers so that don't stop working even if a cartridge exceeded a pre-programmed limit.
These days I just have a mono laser I bought years ago and still on the original toner cartridge I use it so little. Just for the very occasional letter, I used it recently for a RMA return label.
6:33 - what accent is that? Like a light British? At times it almost sounds like Boston, too...weird. EDIT: after listening more, I'm pretty sure it's a very light British.
Or an American who grew up in overseas like Mel Gibson.His education on LinkedIn (still works for HP) shows: University of Portland Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, 3.21989 - 1991
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Ugh. I had a DeskJet 600 - it was either a monochrome or colour. It came with a little box to keep the colour or black ink cartridge in when not in use. It was a very expensive to run printer, and it died after a couple of years probably due to the cheap construction. But then it was the early 90's, and at the time it was pretty awesome.
Other than price there is almost zero difference from home inkjets from 1993 to now in 2019.
why would these be I mean the government put limits on the max resolution that printers can print at cause forgers wanted to print fake money
The principles are the same but resolution (DPI) has vastly increased.
I had the Canon Bubble Jet and I was infuriated that I couldn't get color output with it printing documents from Ventura Publisher at the time. It was the shortest lived printer and first color one I ever owned around that time period.
I bought a Okidata color impact printer that year. It had a huge 4 color ribbon cartridge.
then they realized their mistake and went to smaller more expensive cartridges to milk people more money for their printers
@@raven4k998 I meant huge because it was a nylon ribbon on it holding three primary colors and black. There was no means to make it smaller
Video ends abruptly :(
Yes, I watched it till the end.
Appears because the original on Archive.org is broken as well.
The ironic thing is that the HP guy says in the video that they cured the head clogging problem by integrating the head into the cartridge. I owned HP printers of this type that reliably ran until I could no longer buy cartridges for them. These days virtually all of HP's printers have fixed print heads and easily clog. My last HP inkjet didn't make it a year before an unrecoverable clog occurred. This was not one of their low end printers and cost me hundreds of dollars. That was the final straw for me on inkjets in general.
I finally switched to an alternate company's color laser and have not had a single printing problem since (coming up on 3 years). I am also still on the original set of toner cartridges after printing a couple thousand pages.
I remember getting my first colour inkjet, an Epson Stylus Color II, in the mid 90s and it seemed just amazing technology. I was printing stuff and showing my friends in the pub, fake "magazine covers" and so on. Real sensawunda stuff. I mean it was only a decade or so on from pootling about on a ZX Spectrum.
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@@allentoyokawa9068 COLOUR***** You Americans bastardised our English
Printers haven’t actually changed much since this episode
Love the 550C. I had one for 15 years before it crapped out.
Stewart should have had a network show. Amazing presenter.
AJ at 9:25 sounds a lot like Fred Rogers. Every so often while listening to his segment it just snuck up on me.
I remember buying the HP Deskjet 550 for $550 in Jan. 94. It lasted until about 2002.
out of memory damn I have never had that issue ever with my current computer mind you I have 128 gbs of ram so yeah I doubt a printers going to use up that much memory
Cut off before the end! :(
I had a similar HP 500C to the HP550. I did my degree on it and wore this out. Took ages when coupled with Ambra 386sx , 25 Meg hertz to do a colour picture 25 minutes in fact.
It looks like printer technology hasn't changed in over 20 years.
plenty moving parts. incredible engineering. till today, still no chinese companies are willing or capable to produce any printers
I believe it's because there would be no economic viability of selling a printer at competitive prices unless you also ran the ink/toner supply. It's no secret that printers are sold by the major brands at below market prices, often substantially so, as they make-up for the loss through ink/toner sales. Chinese knock-off companies would have zero ability to have the same level of distribution access as the major players do in selling the cartridges at the local store level.
Who else thought of that Xerox commercial, "Lofts"? That's the one where a chart gets color due to paint runoff from the loft upstairs.
2:45 bit optimistic.. It's been solver 30 years later since color laser printers became less expensibe but still. If you wont buy Epson,Brother or Canon Ink Jet's with CIS built in ~$250-350 you would pay $30 per 4ml of HP Inks - witch is more costly than some advanced drugs to heal cancer or what have you. Even Epson blocked their inks worth $1 per 7ml (XP-205 -> XP-215 and newer) introduced exactly same cartridge slightly different shape for 10$ per colour up to 30$ depending on model. Hopefully print head is not built in you can buy self reseting replacements or just purchase CIS
Label printers DYMO, Brother, Zebra and 3D printers.. its also interesting topic. For example DYMO wich i have (must have device) is cheep device but cartriges are veeery expensive yet it would be possible to put 20m of tape instead 4m there is room for it they put as little as possible to charge you $5-10 per one. But what can you do about it..
That's not a technological problem at all, those are software locks. You can refuel those cartridges and hack those printers so that don't stop working even if a cartridge exceeded a pre-programmed limit.
That tecktronix printer was awesome. I'm sure the hp dude hated
Star Micronics NX-1040, was my first printer then I got the HP 660c.
HuggieBear39 I fantasized about hitting my HP 660c with a hammer several times. And I was only 14 at the time...
The last time I printed photos from my computer with color printer was 2005
These days I just have a mono laser I bought years ago and still on the original toner cartridge I use it so little. Just for the very occasional letter, I used it recently for a RMA return label.
6:33 - what accent is that? Like a light British? At times it almost sounds like Boston, too...weird.
EDIT: after listening more, I'm pretty sure it's a very light British.
+statikreg Sounds like an Aussie who lived in the States to me. =S
New Zealand?
Or an American who grew up in overseas like Mel Gibson.His education on LinkedIn (still works for HP) shows: University of Portland
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, 3.21989 - 1991
He's English but has spent a few years in the US.
He uses distinct vowels, so that can't be an NZ accent.
Wth happened to the end of the episode? Really irritating it getting cut off at the description of one of the more interesting techniques >:-(
I live in Phoenix!
Wow did Michael Sugihara just predict the future ?
Most offices don't have use for a color printer.
Wow Michael Sugihara predicted the future
COME ON I FOUND THAT $10,000 LASER 1000 PRINTER IN THE RECYCLING CENTER TODAY THAT SOMEONE THREW OUT. TOTAL JUNK!!
dammm slow