17 Years Later | The bad printer on the ISS finally welcomes upgrades

Many people have terrible printer experience, especially when a printer needs to strike immediately while completing an important document print job, but when you compare the printer used by the astronauts on the ISS, you are immediately mentally balanced. The space station's brave astronauts have used vintage printers for 17 years.

You will imagine the incredible budget of the US space program, which will easily be wasted by a ubiquitous tool like a printer, which is obviously not the case because the ISS has been equipped with two Epson 800 nozzles since November 2000 Ink Machine Now NASA plans to upgrade the printer.
The agency has partnered with Hewlett-Packard to provide IT upgrades to the International Space Station, including new computers and more appropriate printer technology, but building a printer specifically for NASA means there are some pretty high requirements that need to be met, Print jobs are handled in a gravity environment while still managing their power and flame retardant effectively.

One of the biggest challenges in building a space printer is to track any extra ink on the globe, and if there is a little more ink on the print job, it sticks to the paper or sticks to the printer's needle, but on the ISS , The ink will float around, soiling everything that comes into contact.

Instead of re-inventing new devices from scratch, HP rebuilds it based on its mid-range Envy 5600 printer by testing how each component responds to zero gravity and then tweaking anything that needs tweaking Finally, prototyping was done at zero-gravity flight Test, everything seems to be working well and the HP printer will be shipped to the International Space Station in February 2018.