Is Inkjet in Your Future?

TIJ works by sending a pulse of electrical current through a small chamber containing the ink. The heat from the pulse causes an explosion of steam, creating a bubble that displaces ink in the chamber, firing a droplet of ink through a nozzle onto the surface of the media.

HP, the leading advocate for TIJ, uses the technology in the majority of its desktop and wide-format printers, and has extended it into commercial print with its big T-300 and the recently announced "duplex-in-a-box" T-200 inkjet web presses. Both machines use the same kind of industrial-strength heads as some of HP's wide-format systems. HP says the heads at customer sites are proving more reliable than anticipated, delivering better uptime and requiring fewer replacements.