Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1966

Teletype Corporation develops Inktronic

Invention

Gold-and-white Teletype brochure with an ink-jet diagram and photographs of two Inktronic terminal models.
Teletype’s Inktronic terminal sales brochure, copyright 1968, showing the receive-only and keyboard-and-receive models and the ink-jet mechanism. Teletype Corporation, © 1968. Original brochure preserved by Nick England at Navy-Radio.com; designer and photographer not identified. Image source.

Printing 1,200 words per minute, this was one of the earliest inkjet printers, known as a teleprinter.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

Movements

computer art

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Technologies
computer art, inkjet printer, Inktronic, printers, teletype
Organisations
Teletype Corporation

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