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dsf
I mean, clogged print heads...
Why would a company name itself Espon....?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
Why would a company name itself Espon....?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
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mike jones
dsf said:
You must have been unlucky.
I never use any other printer type than Epson, and after 15 years of using
Epson printers I can honestly say I've never has a single problem.
If I had a complaint it would be about the high price of Epson carts, but
there are plenty of quality 3rd party suppliers out there who make much
cheaper carts.
Mike.
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Jon O'Brien
I second Mike's post. I've never had a problem with clogged print heads
either. Is the air very dry where you keep your printer?
It's not a company, it's the European Spatial Planning Observation
Network: http://www.espon.lu/
Why would any parent name their child HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH?
Jon.
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Tony1that matters
I wish I was a morondsf said:
They seem to have such fun
Erh, Doh, Erm, Dunno...
Perhaps I is one
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STeve
I don't know, but they are/...Heads clogging - high prices for carts..And
really..Whats up the the Epson name??? Epson????
really..Whats up the the Epson name??? Epson????
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Mark Herring
REALLY stupid post---you get one more chance before going to the kill
file
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Private e-mail: Just say no to "No".
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Kennedy McEwen
You only get a clogged head when you have sh!t for brains.dsf said:
I don't know, why would a company name itself Espon?
PS. When you laugh before the punch line its usually because you *are*
the joke!
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scram
Why are you answering your own question?
STeve said:
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NCHA
STeve said:
It all started in 1968:
Based on the success of the Crystal Chronometer 961 and printing device, the
corporation introduced to the world first commercially successful printing
mechanism the EP-101
The name EPSON was adopted to express the company's determination to produce
many worthy 'sons' of the remarkably successful EP
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Hecate
You should never engage in a battle of wits with the unarmed
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puss
No its the Users that are CRAP..
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puss
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puss
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Henry
I don't know about clogged heads, but I scrapped a 760 that was awful.dsf said:
I kept cleaning it (physically) but every few weeks it would spread ink
splodges all over the paper.
Eventually discovered that the waste ink tube had never had a drop of ink in
it, and it was all going into the works and getting everywhere.
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CWatters
dsf said:
Are you trying to hint at a parallel with "Epsom Salts"? ( used to err
"unblock" passageways of a different kind).
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devans
dsf said:
The name Epson derives from the Son of electronic printer (EP-101) - a
printer which Seiko developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
EPSON(1)
1961
During the 1980s EPSON was synonymous with dot matrix printers.
Many knew it was a Japanese company but very few knew Epson was also a
subsidiary of Seiko, the watch manufacturers. The name Epson derives
from the Son of electronic printer (EP-101) - a printer which Seiko
developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.(1)
This printer went into serial production 1968
BACKGROUND
Commodore Perry, US Navy, was sent on a diplomatic mission to Japan in
1853-1854 and negotiated for that country to open its doors to the
western world. Until then Japan was ruled by a Shogun family, which for
over 250 years forbade most foreign contact.
From Perry's visit Japan set forth on the road to modernisation. In
1872 the first railway opened and the western time system was adopted.
Three years later the first Japanese clock factory began. Other clock
factories followed including the K. Hattori Trading Company in 1881. The
founder, Kintaro Hattori, established the Seikosha factory in 1892 and
began to produce wall clocks. Within 18 months Seikosha employed 90
staff, and by the turn of the century some 400. (Seikosha means
something like Precision Manufacturing Company.)
After 100 years in business the company is still owned by the Hattori
family with no outside stockholders. Most of the world's supply of
"Swiss" watch movements are actually made by Seikosha. In addition,
Seikosha operates under three different corporations - sometimes in
direct competition and under other brand names.
Diama Seikosha makes watches which are then sold to overseas markets
under the brand name "Seiko". Suwa Seikosha developed the quartz watch
over an eight-year period and also manufactures electric shavers,
spectacle lenses, and ICs, as well as other products. It is also the
parent company of Epson Corporation.
EPSON ESTABLISHED
Epson was established in 1961 under the name of Shinshu Seiki (Shinshu
Precision Manufacturing Company) to provide precision parts for Seiko
watches. The company was awarded a contract to make precision timers for
the 1964 Olympics and also picked up work to build a printer as well.
Thus the EP-101 printer came about, and in 1968 it became one of the
first printers for electronic calculators to hit the commercial market.
Until the 1980s around 100,000 of these printer mechanisms were being
produced each month - about 90% of the world market. (I assume EP means
something like Electronic Printer.)
Electronic watches using relatively high current light-emitting diodes
first appeared on the market in 1970 and so Shinshu Seiki began
researching a low-current alternative. It came up with the
liquid-crystal display in 1974 which in turn led to LCD watches.
Epson America was incorporated in 1975 with offices being set up in
Torrance, California to distribute Shinshu Seiki products.
DOT PRINTERS
Epson's first dot matrix printer, TX-80, was introduced in 1978.
However, this didn't attract much attention - except from Commodore
which used it as the system printer for its PET computer. (80 from the
number of columns it printed per line.)
An improved version, the MX-80, began to be developed later in that same
year. The TX-80 took three months to develop. The MX-80 took about two
years, was introduced in late 1980, quickly became the best selling
printer in the United States, and eventually became the industrial
standard for microcomputers. This was despite it being designed not to
produce graphics. Within a year the Graftrax version with graphics had
hit the streets.
EPSON PC
Epson first tried its hand at manufacturing PCs with the QX-10. The
first prototypes reaching USA in mid 1982. It bore a close resemblance
to an American computer, the General, which was designed in 1978 by
Technical Design Labs. TDL couldn't raise the finance needed for
production and eventually went out of business. Two of TDL's founders,
Chris Rutkowski and Roger Amidon, joined Shinshu Seiki and worked on the
preliminary QX-10 design.
Software for the QX-10 was developed by Rising Star Industries. This
company was incorporated at the end of 1982 (by Epson?), drawing its
name from the Rising Sun of Japan and the Stars and Stripes of USA :-(
Shinshu Seiki changed its name to Epson Corporation about the same time.
Also in that year Epson announced the HX-20 computer. Termed a
'briefcase' portable computer, it offered a built-in printer and
microcassette data storage system. From 1980 to 1983 Epson America grew
from 17 employees to over 260.
Chronology(4)
1964 - High-precision crystal chronometers and printing timers (Tokyo
Olympics)
1968 - Printer mechanism, EP-101
1969 - Quartz watch
1973 - Digital wristwatch
1982 - Notebook computer (HX-20)
- Wristwatch-sized LCD TV
1983 - Battery-powered 3.5" floppy disk drive (SMD 200)
1984 - Full-color LCD TV (ET-10)
1985 - DOS-based PC
- Memory card (SRAM)
- Plastic-packaged oscillator
1988 - Printer manufactured totally by automation
1989 - Single-pass color flatbed scanner
1990 - Wristwatch pager
1992 - Light hardening lens production system
1994 - Desktop color ink jet printer with 720 x 720 dpi resolution
(EPSON Stylus Color)
1995 - Smallest, lightest and brightest LCD projector (ELP-3000)
1997 - 1440 dpi high resolution colour inkjets
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DaveC
It never ceases to amaze me how many people fee the trolls.