Inkjet Ink
Inkjet Printer Ink Needs Fine Tuning
The inkjet printer has been around since the early 1980’s but needed a few fine tuning advances to make it more affordable to the average user. The basic concept behind the inkjet printer lies in the concepts of how printers work. Right at the “ya…so”level we find an answer of; a printer puts printer ink onto a piece of paper or other material. In our case we are talking about getting ink from ink cartridge onto paper in a finely defined color.
Inkjet Ink Cartridges
Thermal bubble - This first choice came largely from the bubble jet era and works by generating a certain amount of heat in the printer ink cartridges. The heat causes a bubble to form which eventually collapses as the printer ink is forced through a nozzle due to the bubble formation. As the crystals vibrate they cause the printer ink to be ejected and replaced by more printer ink. In this particular method there are many more nozzles than in the thermal bubble method so image quality is significantly better. Unfortunately, with the rights issue in place this quality is in limited release which makes the thermal bubble method more preferred.
The costs of inkjet ink cartridges can, unfortunately, be rather high. In this case the user must look to the cost of the unit if there is to be any noticeable difference in Inkjet cartridges bought. Lower cost machines do have a tendency to have lower cost ink cartridges but quality of the copy is poor. Looking in the other direction, higher cost printers will give you high quality prints but ends up costing you more than the printer in ink cartridges over time.
How inkjet printers work and the quality/cost issues appear to have penetrated the average consumers psyche in the first years of the 21st century.
