The first commercial printers generally used mechanisms from electric typewriters and Teletype machines. The first electronic printer was the EP-101, invented by Japanese company Epson and released in 1968. This patent (US3060429) led to the Teletype Inktronic Printer product delivered to customers in late 1966. The ink was a red stamp pad ink manufactured by Phillips Process Company of Rochester, NY under the name Clear Print. The first patented printing mechanism for applying a marking medium to a recording medium or more particularly, to an electrostatic inking apparatus and a method for electrostatically depositing in on controlled areas of a receiving medium was in 1962 by C.R Winston, Teletype, Corporation using continuous inkjet printing. The first computer printer designed was a mechanically driven apparatus by Charles Babbage for his difference engine in the 19th century however, his mechanical printer design was not built until 2000.

4.4 Monochrome, colour and photo printers.

3.2.2 Liquid ink electrostatic printers.

3.2.1.2 Teletypewriter-derived printers.

3.2 Obsolete and special-purpose printing technologies.

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