REGARDING THE ARTICLE “Printing Enters the Jet Age,” in your Spring 2001 issue (by Thomas Kraemer), your readers should know that the business of designing and building inkjet print heads has always been a team effort from start to finish and remains so to this day. In his article, Tom Kraemer used me as a vehicle to put a human face on an otherwise arcane and hard-to-grasp undertaking and to give a voice to the hundreds of unnamed Hewlett-Packard engineers and technicians who rightfully share the credit for making the great dream of low-cost, highquality, quiet, and convenient personal printing a reality.
The one historical fact in the article that I would take issue with is Ernst Erni’s having bought burgers for the team, as promised, after our initial success in producing readable inkjet text. To the best of my recollection, Ernst never did buy those burgers. The circumstance became a running joke within the inkjet team in the years that followed, and it prompted us to insert the text string “Ernst Owes Us Burgers” into many of our print-test files.
Niels Mielsen
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
CORVALLIS, ORE.
