| || Colour printing: Today and tomorrow Author :Bedi,
D.S.;Aggarwal, K.R. Source: DESIDOC Bulletin of Information
Technology :12(2) ; 1992 ; pp.3-9 Abstract : Printing high
quality colour at a low cost on plain paper may seem like a
pipe-dream, but it is not. Over the past several years, a lot of
R&D effort has been put in by various companies into colour
printer technologies, and the next few years will certainly see
some of these come to fruition as products. Colour printing is
available now and will be commonplace tomorrow. The challenges
and problems inherent in colour printing are discussed. The
basic colour printing technologies, viz., dot matrix, ink-jet,
thermal transfer, and laser are elaborated. The advent of ink-
jet and thermal transfer printers are considered as instrumental
in increasing the quality and at the same rate lowering the
cost. The predominance of true colour laser printers and other
technologies, giving photographic quality printing at desktop,
is predicted. Keywords : Colour printin