Talk:HP DeskJet

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"...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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"Italian lira"

The section about the lira sign in the article about the lira (.it, .tr etc), says that the codepoint U+20A4 ₤ LIRA SIGN was established for backward compatibility with HP printers. The Unicode document just says that the codepoint is "not much used" (that was then, nowadays it is not used at all).

The problem is that that statement is uncited and I haven't been able to find any evidence. Can anybody here suggest anything? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:09, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]