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The first computer printer was designed in the 19th century but not built until 2000, the first electronic printer was invented in 1968. Early printers used mechanisms from electric typewriters and teletypes, while later laser and inkjet printers mixed text and graphics at higher quality and lower cost, displacing dot matrix printers. Traditional printers are now less common due to digital documents and devices.

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The first computer printer was designed in the 19th century but not built until 2000, the first electronic printer was invented in 1968. Early printers used mechanisms from electric typewriters and teletypes, while later laser and inkjet printers mixed text and graphics at higher quality and lower cost, displacing dot matrix printers. Traditional printers are now less common due to digital documents and devices.

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The first computer printer designed was a

mechanically driven apparatus by Charles Babbage


for his difference engine in the 19th century;
however, his mechanical printer design was not
built until 2000.[3]
The first electronic printer was the EP-101,
invented by Japanese company Epson and
released in 1968.[4][5]
The first commercial printers generally used
mechanisms from electric typewriters and
Teletype machines. The demand for higher speed
led to the development of new systems specifically
for computer use. In the 1980s there were daisy
wheel systems similar to typewriters, line printers
that produced similar output but at much higher
speed, and dot matrix systems that could mix text
and graphics but produced relatively low-quality
output. The plotter was used for those requiring
high quality line art like blueprints.
The introduction of the low-cost laser printer in
1984 with the first HP LaserJet,[6] and the addition
of PostScript in next year's Apple LaserWriter, set
off a revolution in printing known as desktop
publishing.[7] Laser printers using PostScript mixed
text and graphics, like dot-matrix printers, but at
quality levels formerly available only from
commercial typesetting systems. By 1990, most
simple printing tasks like fliers and brochures were
now created on personal computers and then laser
printed; expensive offset printing systems were
being dumped as scrap. The HP Deskjet of 1988
offered the same advantages as a laser printer in

GEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS REPORT 1


terms of flexibility, but produced somewhat lower
quality output (depending on the paper) from much
less expensive mechanisms. Inkjet systems rapidly
displaced dot matrix and daisy wheel printers from
the market. By the 2000s high-quality printers of
this sort had fallen under the $100 price point and
became commonplace.
The rapid update of internet email through the
1990s and into the 2000s has largely displaced the
need for printing as a means of moving documents,
and a wide variety of reliable storage systems
means that a "physical backup" is of little benefit
today. Even the desire for printed output for
"offline reading" while on mass transit or aircraft
has been displaced by e-book readers and tablet
computers. Today, traditional printers are being
used more for special purposes, like printing
photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-
have peripheral.[opinion]

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