Users could customize their own greeting cards with a Printable Expression kit, which included a CD-ROM, paper supplies and a color Inkjet printer. It was Hewlett-Packard’s first product targeting the ...

As computer technology became more pervasive, especially in schools and homes, the consumer demand for printers began to include kids. Seeing an opportunity in the market, Hewlett-Packard partnered wi ...

The HP DeskJet 500C heralded a revolution in color printing. Prior to it, color printing was expensive and generally performed by a separate machine from black and white printing. Hewlett-Packard’s ma ...

Wei Song, an R&D engineer at HP’s Little Falls Operation in Delaware, was responsible for a paper-saving innovation during testing of the HP 7673 automatic sampler and tray. The product printed side-b ...

When the Environmental Protection Agency launched the Energy Star program to certify energy-efficient devices, Hewlett-Packard was one of the program’s first partners. The company’s LaserJet 4L printe ...

Hewlett-Packard introduced its first laser printer, the 2680A, in 1980. It offered high resolution and was capable of merging graphic illustrations and text. The printer system was so good, in fact, t ...

The HP 9862A plotter was designed to work with desktop calculators, specifically Hewlett-Packard’s 9800 series, making it one of the company’s earliest personal printers.

Hewlett-Packard celebrated the sale of its one-millionth LaserJet printer in 1988, a mere four years after the first unit was sold.

Hewlett-Packard’s 7470A graphics pen plotter from 1982 sought a practical solution to a prominent printing challenge. Plotters had previously held the paper still while a mechanical arm drew an image. ...

Hewlett-Packard’s VidJet Pro worked with Hewlett-Packard printers to allow video images from any source to be quickly printed on plain paper or transparencies. It allowed consumers more direct interac ...