Phillip W. Barth

In the early 1980s, offices were noisy places, filled with the sound of metal striking inked ribbons to mark characters on paper. IBM Selectric typewriters clacked, daisy wheel printers clattered, and dot-matrix printers made loud ripping sounds. Today, those noises are gone. And though we do spend more time reading on screens, we haven’t stopped printing on paper. The main reason for the quiet? The inkjet printer. While laser printers do the big printing jobs