High Speed 12.7mm Inkjet Printer Coding Machine With Photoelectric Sensor And Stand

What Are The Types of Inkjet Printing Technology?

Inkjet printing can be divided into two broad types of printing technology, namely drop-on-demand and continuous inkjet printing. The common printers we call “inkjet printers” are continuous inkjet printers. Drop-on-demand printers are further divided into two types, thermal and piezoelectric inkjet printing technologies.

The different inkjet printer types are poles apart functionally, but one thing they all have in common is that they force ink (black or color) from cartridges to print media. Inkjet printers are common in homes and offices. You can also use inkjet printers, especially continuous inkjet printers, for large-scale and commercial operations.

How Does Thermal Inkjet Printing Work?

Thermal inkjet printing releases ink only on demand by rapidly vaporizing the ink in the printer’s cartridges. Each of the cartridges’ chambers contains ink and a resistor coil, which serves as the heating element. The coil, which is situated above the ink, gets hot during printing and vaporizes the ink. As this happens, air bubbles form and force the ink out of the chamber onto the print media.

The printing process of a thermal inkjet printer starts from when you send a file to the printer from printing. When your command gets to the printer’s ink chamber, electric current would be passed to the resistor coil and cause heat generation. The hot coil then transfers heat to the ink below it causes the ink to vaporize rapidly.

As the ink vaporizes, air bubbles begin to form and increase the pressure within the ink chamber. Pressure builds up and forces an ink droplet through the printer’s nozzle onto the substrate. Upon ejecting the droplet, the air bubble collapses thus creating a vacuum, which pulls more ink into the chamber.