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If it wasn't for ink cartridges and inkjet printers we would be up to our necks in messy ink ribbons! I for one am grateful that I don't have to change another typewriter ribbon!
Ink cartridges first came about in nineteen eighty-four. During this particular period in time the office became a quieter place minus the roar of the collective Olivetti key pounding and was set to become an even more efficient domain. Never before had ink renewal been so easy and effective. No longer a slave to the heavy-duty key layout of the non electric typewriter, our finger nails got to grow a centimetre or two longer.
Things were not exactly primitive before 1984 it has to be said. Though many offices continued to hang onto the big portable typewriters, many were making use of word processors and printing out documents via a cheeky little device known as a dot-matrix printer. Many an office continues to cling to these printers as for some reason office managers cannot bring themselves to throw away such a fete of former technical innovation. Wonder into any office tearoom and you'll find the inanimate shell of a dot-matrix printer holding up piles of catering amenities (plastic plates and cups, economy box loads of Teatime biscuits) and rolls of cleaning supplies. Memorabilia of the former glory years!
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