Everything.” Additionally, let’s take a brief moment to acknowledge the Game Boy Printer from 1998, which was a portable thermal printer (like a receipt machine) designed to print photos taken with the Game Boy Camera. “Everything I threw at the DeskJet 500, it printed. I printed a lot, and never had a paper jam,” wrote Scott Merrill in a 2010 piece for TechCrunch. It never failed me in college, or beyond. It was beige and boxy, resembling a brutalist office structure that has been dipped in vanilla cream. The first mass-market home inkjet printer was the Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 500, which was introduced in 1988 and sold for $1,000 (adjusted for inflation, that’s about $2,160). All of the true Silicon Valley printing disruptors have moved on to 3D printing, leaving goofballs like the Jorf bros to abscond with all their Kickstarter money and go run a #vanlife Instagram account. There will be no innovations or disruptions. The need for printing physical documents is rapidly declining and home printers will soon be obsolete. While it’s within the realm of possibility that at some point in the future a bold new startup run by identical twins both named Jorf might try to “design a better printer” which would end up looking like a piece of mid-century modern furniture made from sawdust-wood scavenged from an Ikea dumpster, this is highly unlikely. Imagine a similar chart as the one above, except measuring the overall shittiness of printers, increasing over time. It stipulates that as computer technology gets exponentially harder/better/faster/stronger, printers will get exponentially shittier. Here in the year 2019, with the full benefit of hindsight, I propose a subsidiary law, called the InkJet Corollary.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |