Talk:HP Deskjet

first deskjet not 500?
I'm not sure - need to find a cite, certainly, before changing the main article - but I don't think the first deskjets were "500s". They were just "Deskjet", later followed by "Deskjet Plus" (not sure what that denoted - maybe the addition of those often-redundant ROM slots?). The 500, and 500C being somewhat retroactive naming brought in once they started to make the portable 300 (and higher-resolution 600?) model lines.

1988, though. Wow. That's pretty impressive given that I still occasionally see 500s in use, and had one happily chugging away for schoolwork into the late 90s (...which may actually have been one without a number on it - it was a while back!). Early 90s I and most people I know were still buying dot matrix models because of the price gap; if only we knew of the quality, speed and noise gaps as well! 193.63.174.10 (talk) 13:17, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * EDIT --- Yes! I knew I wasn't dreaming it. Check [List_of_Hewlett-Packard_products#Deskjet_printers]... 193.63.174.10 (talk) 13:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

"...HP Deskjet was the world’s first single-sheet, desktop printer..."
I dispute that. The Epson LQ-850 had a single-sheet feeder, and I'm sure that was out before 1988. 193.113.37.9 (talk) 10:42, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Invention of thermal inkjet technology
Actually it was Canon who invented it - HP solely brought it to market first. --93.159.250.234 (talk) 08:44, 23 May 2012 (UTC)