Digital BW, The Print

I don't know about how they came up with the name, but I do know that, at least, in the beginning there were
several different approaches as to *how* to get the ink to move.  In 1989 I photographed a senior scientist in
Yonkers NY,  (I think he was working for either IBM or Xerox, can't remember), for Cornell University's Super
Computing facility, to illustrate his research approach to inkjet printing (for which he used Cornell's Super
Computer, 1 of approx. 10 in the country, at that time).

We were looking for the *simplest* graphic prop to 'image' his research.  We first tried using an ink filled
turkey baster (*VERY* messy) and finally had him shoot a water pistol full of ink on a large sheet of seamless
paper.  silly, really.  :- )

In retrospect, the funniest thing about that whole project is that the computer I'm now using, is probably at
least as fast and as powerful as the Super Computers were back then .....Time moves quickly in the high tech
world...Hang on!

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC

Nij wrote:

> I agree entirely! And apart from that... NO-ONE would be using this whole
> technology if someone had called it an 'inkdrip printer'! Not even 'turbo
> inkdrip' would have worked...
>
> Similarly, maybe LASER printers would not have gone so far had they been
> called 'Static printers'?
>
> But what if inkjet printers had instead been called 'paintjet' or 'artjet'
> or 'piezojet' (i.e. dereferencing the technology or the ink, and instead
> focussing on the result... or the technology). Would we be dealing with
> different customer reactions now?
>
> How much does a name influence customers???
>
> Nij
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SKID Photography [mailto:skid@...]
> >
> > But inkjets' inks are under applied with pressure (hence the term
> > inkJET) albeit, tiny pressure, but hey, it's
> > a tiny ink droplet (not even considered a 'drop').  The
> > electrical charge to the printhead causes to the ink
> > to discharge from the nozzle.  That is not the same as a 'drip'.


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