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Deskjet is a brand name for inkjet printers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. These printers range from small domestic to large industrial models, although the largest models in the range have generally been dubbed DesignJet. The Macintosh-compatible equivalent was branded as the Deskwriter and competed with Apple's StyleWriter, and the all-in-one equivalent is called OfficeJet.
HP began making inkjet printers with the Thinkjet in 1984. In 1988, HP introduced the first DeskJet. It included a built-in cut sheet feeder, 2 ppm, and 300 dpi. This was followed by the DeskJet Plus in 1989. It offered a landscape printing ability. The DeskJet 500 was introduced in 1990, offering a faster printing speed of 3 ppm. Meanwhile, HP introduced the DeskWriter for the Macintosh in 1989, based on the DeskJet 500.
By 1987, the world's first full-color inkjet printer, the PaintJet, was introduced. It was successful that HP introduced a version of the DeskJet capable of color printing, the DeskJet 500C, in October 1991, which is also HP's first 300 dpi color printer, offering 4 minutes per page in color. It was replaced by the DeskJet 550C in October 1992, HP's first two-pen color DeskJet, offering a faster black and white speed of 4 ppm and print quality at 600 dpi in B&W, and then the DeskJet 560C in March 1994, which introduced HP ColorSmart to intelligently analyze documents for the best color output.