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One semi-legendary story from the history of the copying and printing industries involves the origin of the inkjet printer, popularly thought to have been developed after an engineer at Canon absent-mindedly placed a hot iron on top of a pen. The outpouring of ink that resulted from the heat is supposed to have sparked the new design idea.
In 1833, the French inventor Felix Savart had come up with the basic process for breaking a laminar flow-jet into a series of droplets. Twenty-five years later, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, constructed the first practical machine to use the idea, the “siphon recorder” designed to automatically transcribe telegraph messages.
Fast-forward a century, and Canon and several competitors were exploring the possibilities in emerging inkjet printing technology. In the mid-1970s, the company’s engineers were conducting a series of experiments when the point of a soldering iron touched an ink-filled syringe. The needle began ejecting ink droplets. The team developed the idea into a proprietary platform that purposely directed heat to force an ejection of ink.
Canon patented the first-ever thermal inkjet, which is called the Bubble Jet, in 1977, and the exponential roll-out of the inkjet printing industry flowed from there.
Today, Canon’s series of PIXMA color inkjet printers are only one brand in a diverse field that includes printers and equipment from Lexmark, HP, Epson, and other well-known manufacturers.