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Prices are lower than ever and print quality is soaring.
We humans crave color the way we crave food. We started brightening our bodies, clothing, and walls long before recorded history, with homemade extracts from crushed berries and boiled leaves and bark. Over time, tints evolved to include mass-produced synthetic paints, inks, and dyes for industrial processes and fine arts. Now we're bringing color back into the home, courtesy of small, inexpensive, awesomely capable color ink jet printers. But not just into the home.