| Computer printers have helped evolve and | | | | You can also get solid ink printers, dye sublimation |
| develop the printing market to its known rank. | | | | printers or even inkless printers that use a specific |
| We can today do so many things like CD printing | | | | paper containing colourless dye crystals. |
| and DVD printing thanks to the available | | | | But with all this technology we tend to forget that |
| technology. | | | | the printing process goes back to hundred of |
| Even computer printers have evolved a lot since | | | | years. Printing first came to Europe as a method |
| they were first brought to the market in the | | | | for printing on textile in the fourteenth century, |
| eighties even though computer printer had been | | | | where it mainly had a religious use. A century |
| made for professional or governmental use for | | | | later, what we call block printing was transferred |
| many years, with Remington-Rand for example | | | | from cloth to other materials and soon playing |
| developing one of the first high-speed printers in | | | | cards were quickly printed on paper. It is believed |
| the fifties to be used on the Univac computer | | | | though that Mister Gutenberg developed European |
| also called the Universal Automatic Computer. | | | | printing technology in the middle of the fifteenth |
| Whereas the speed of the first computer printers | | | | century in 1439. The printing press invented by |
| was in reality calculated in units of characters | | | | Gutenberg in Germany completely changed the |
| printed per seconds, the speed of modern | | | | production of books and greatly helped to the |
| printers is now considered in pages printed per | | | | spread of knowledge throughout Europe and the |
| minute, which clearly makes a huge difference. | | | | all world. Books did not have to be hand copied |
| You can now find various types of computer | | | | one after the other any more; they could be |
| printers very easily in the market. You can get | | | | printed as an alternative! |
| for example toner-based printers that in fact | | | | Printing houses started to appear near the time |
| work by using the xerographic principle. The most | | | | of Gutenberg and were run by master printers. |
| commonly used kind of toner based printer being | | | | The most famous master printer being in fact |
| the laser printer. | | | | Erasmus. |
| Another type of printer is the liquid inkjet printer | | | | As we can see, computer printers come from |
| that simply sprays very small and precise amount | | | | very far in history and keep evolving very quickly |
| of ink onto the piece of paper or other. | | | | thanks to the technology used. |