Now the legal battle rages on between manufacturers of inkjet printers and ink discounters.
Among other things, it makes microflex circuits, a technology 3M nearly abandoned in the early 1980s, which tell Hewlett-Packard printers how much ink to dispense.
Sales of ink for those printers are declining but it expects to keep selling ink profitably through next year.
Is this an effort that will thrive in a company of engineers sand ink jet printers?
Kersten discloses the style of paper, ink, printers and photo-editing software Williams used--all are commercially available.
Next year, expanding its judo offensive, Xerox plans to introduce a full line of fax machines, ink jet printers and laser printers.
Other large standby drainers include ink jet printers, which can use from three to 20 watts, and mini-stereos, which can consume from one to 25 watts.
Now vertical dis-integration is the order of the day in autos, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, ink-jet printers, health foods, cameras, microchips.
Friend's large molecules can be mixed into a solution and sprayed onto a screen, using the same technology as ink-jet printers.
It doubled revenue from 1993 to 1997, went from nowhere to a top slot in PCs and has sold 100 million ink-jet printers.
One of Nektar's earliest hires was Adrian Smith, a mechanical engineer who had designed ink-jet printers for Hewlett-Packard and medical devices at venerable design firm IDEO.
Under the David Packard approach, new product lines split off into autonomous units, and scores of disparate operations populated the four main businesses--ink-jet printers, laser printers, servers and PCs.
One of Nektar's earliest hires was Adrian Smith, a mechanical engineer who had designed ink-jet printers for Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) and medical devices at venerable design firm IDEO.
At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.
An Epson ink-jet printer's connector fit, but 3Com's marketers don't mention that Bluetooth behaves like a serial port rather than a parallel one, making installation difficult and keeping many printers from reporting things like the status of ink cartridges or paper jams.
As laser printers push inkjet printers out, HP (the inkjet supplies market leader) will likely see a decline in its ink cartridge per printer sales until the shift away from inkjet stabilizes.
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Dye, ink and paper tend to be more expensive for this method of printing than with normal color printers.
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