subject: Printing Technologies And Oki 5000 Series Printers [print this page] Today they are relics either harbored for their possible future collector value, sitting in a museum, or collecting dust while the owner hopes someone will make a movie based on earlier times. The typewriter has been replaced. It is not that unusual for pieces of equipment to be replaced but the speed of the feat was quite impressive and demonstrated the level of change it represented. This represented a significant step forward in the printed word, leading us to the advanced capabilities of the Okidata 5000 printer and Oki 5000 toner cartridges.
The Chinese began the printing experience using blocks of words with ideographs carved into them and using primitive types of ink to promulgate the images. When the movable print was introduced around 1450, it provided a reasonably priced way to mass produce the written word. With the combination of word processing software and printers the progress made in business was quite significant.
The typewriter made the setting of print unnecessary and introduced the gentle yet cacophonous clicking of the typewriter to businesses everywhere. As fast as typists became, however, the desire to get things in print faster was ever present. Technology to the rescue; the typewriter merged with a new device, the computer, and we found a new ability, we could peruse a paragraph or more on a screen and make corrections before hitting the print button.
Through it all, the printer has also been quietly keeping up with all this change. When the typewriter began passing into oblivion, all the emphasis was on the word processing software, but that digital data still had to be put to paper somehow. This was the golden age of inventiveness in printing. If we could but harness the notion, we should be able to print much faster than a human ever could manually.
The appearance of the impact printer was a major step forward in bringing printing into the office. While the initial models were bulky and noisy and could only use one font which was not terribly different from the typewriter whose ability to change fonts meant changing the typing head. Soon after, the dot matrix printer began to come into its own. The quality was not as crisp initially as the impact printer, but the cost of the machines and its flexibility made up for that inconvenience.
Impact printers delivered the kind of speed business paperwork desired, but it was limited in font and some were hazardously noisy. The next printing phase showed us the dot matrix printer, providing greater font flexibility and speed and eliminating the noise. Unfortunately, most early dot matrix printers lacked print quality and had difficulty with paper handling functions.
These new ways gave us the flexibility to print increasingly professional word documents, especially when using Okidata printer toner cartridge. The images which appeared were as good as any book, magazine or newspaper, and with some creativity in printing brochures and pamphlets could be devised. The limitations were now centered around the size and manipulation of the paper involved with the printing process.
