The printer was invented by John Water and Dave Donald. A device that prints the calculation results or intermediate results of a computer on the paper with human-recognizable numbers, letters, symbols, and graphics, etc. The printer is developing towards light, thin, short, small, low power consumption, high speed and intelligent.

Time event summary

1976 The world’s first ink jet printer is born.

1976 Piezo ink dot control technology was introduced.

1979 Bubble Jet technology is introduced.

In August 1980, Canon applied its bubble ink jet technology to its ink jet printer Y-80 for the first time, and began the history of ink jet printers.

1991 The first color ink jet printer and large format printer appeared.

1994 Micro-piezoelectric printing technology was introduced.