Chapter 26. Printers

Printing, reduced to its basics, is the art of moving ink from one place to another. Although that definition likely will please only a college instructor lost in his own vagueness, any more precise description fails in the face of a reality laced with printouts of a thousand fonts and far fewer thoughts. A modern computer printer takes ink from a reservoir and deposits it on paper or some other medium in patterns determined by your ideas and computer. In other words, a printer makes your thoughts visible.

Behind this worthy goal is one of the broadest arrays of technology in data processing, including processes akin to hammers, squirt guns, and flashlights. The range of performance is wider than with any other peripheral. ...

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