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Appendix F. What is an Ink-jet
Printer?
An ink-jet printer is a printer that uses ink jet
nozzles to produce the data characters you see
printed on your printer. The nozzles are
positioned linearly in the horizontal direction on
the carriage.
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squeezes the tube and an ink droplet is ejected
from the orifice of the glass tube by the resulting
pressure wave. The nozzle of each orifice is only
0.065 mm wide, so be careful of dust and paper
particles that could enter and clog the nozzle.
One pulse of voltage causes one droplet of ink to
be ejected and absorbed onto the paper to print
one dot. The picture on the following page
illustrates the ink jet process. Ink-jet printers
that print by jetting the necessary times
according to the pulses received are called "drop
on demand" printers.
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