Solid ink technology--a ten-year perspective

Tony Cruz-Uribe; J. Lahut; Joseph Parisi

doi:10.1117/12.146253

18 June 1993 Solid ink technology--a ten-year perspective

Tony Cruz-Uribe, J. Lahut, Joseph Parisi

Proceedings Volume 1912, Color Hard Copy and Graphic Arts II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146253
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1993, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Since the first jetting of ink, that is solid at room temperature, in 1979 solid ink technology has offered the promise of revolutionizing on-demand printing. With the successful introduction of a number of products during the last 18 months, solid ink is on the verge of realizing this promise. In principle solid ink jetting is simple: melt the ink and jet it as a liquid; in practice there are many factors critical to the containment, ejection, and formulation of phase change inks. These factors have influenced the development of the drive portion of the ink jet print head with all commercial applications using a piezoelectric drive. These factors have also spawned a great deal of work in innovative ink delivery systems that bring ink to the print head in a solid form. The most important feature of the technology has been the quality of the resulting image and the independence of the substrate on this image quality. Solid ink also has the unique feature of easily producing small spot sizes. As a result, the gray scale levels and high resolution can increase to keep pace with improvements in competing technologies and demands from the marketplace. Though Dataproducts (and its predecessor Exxon Printing Systems) were the first to develop solid ink technology, through various license agreements, products using solid ink have been introduced from a number of printer companies. Through this collection of products, solid ink provides the enabling technology to bring the office of the 1990s into the color era.

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Tony Cruz-Uribe, J. Lahut, and Joseph Parisi "Solid ink technology--a ten-year perspective", Proc. SPIE 1912, Color Hard Copy and Graphic Arts II, (18 June 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146253

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