RT Media has been sharing stories about the printer and imaging supplies industry for 15 years.

Did you know:

• the Canon PC-10 and PC-20 (pictured), the world’s first personal copying machines with replaceable all-in-one cartridges, were introduced in 1982?
• The BJ-80, the world’s first inkjet printer using Bubble Jet technology, went to market in 1985?
• The first remanufacturer in Asia was Print-Rite which commenced operations in Hong Kong in 1981 with the name A&J.
• It is believed the remanufacturing of printer cartridges started on February 25, 1988, when Fred Keen filed the U.S. patent for the “Refillable Toner Cartridge”.
• The former fishing village of Zhuhai, established in 1953, became one of the first special economic zones in China in 1980 and was pronounced the world capital of printing consumables in 2010.

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