inkjet?
Well today i had to change the cartridge on my deskjet printer and while looking at the cartridge i was mystified: how do these things work? Is it the same in inkjets? What’s the difference between inkjets and deskjets or is it just the name?
I believe that How Stuff Works has articles explaining both inkjet & laser printers.
As far as I know, deskjet is just a HP trademarked brand name for a line of inkjet printers. Like their LaserJet line of laser printers.
The first HP inkjet printer was called the ThinkJet, because unlike dot-matrix printers out at the time, the ThinkJet was whisper-quiet (you could think while it was printing). Impact-type dot matrix printers were noisy as jackhammers. But the ThinkJet produced a rather crude, by today’s standards, document. It was equivalent to dot-matrix. The DeskJet line was the first inkjet “letter quality” printer.
I worked for HP in those days, and previously the only printer we sold was a rebranded Epson model. I always thought “why would anyone ever want to buy a printer from HP?” My, how times have changed.