PaintJet XL300

The PaintJet XL300 was HP's first 300 dpi color printer and first color page printer. Like the laser printers, the PaintJet XL300 did not start printing until it had received an entire page of information from the computer. In most respects, this printer was mediocre. It was big, expensive and slow. The PaintJet XL300 was the first HP inkjet printer to use a heating lamp. It took almost five minutes for the printer to initialise after powering up. The print qulaity and print speed of the PaintJet XL300 was approximately the same as that of the DeskJet 550C, which cost seventy percent less.