INKJET PRINTERS

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INKJET PRINTERS
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Inkjet printers use tiny dots of ink

• Our eyes and brain mix the dots together

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Really, really, really tiny!

• Inkjets make picoliter-sized drops.
• Two trillion picoliters in one pop bottle.

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Really, really, really tiny!

• One drop of blood has one billion blood cells.
  
• One picoliter of blood has only 100 blood cells.

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Tiny drops of liquid act weird

• Surface tension and other forces dont matter in
  a big pipe, but have a huge effect in a tiny tube.

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Inkjet technology

• Bubble jetheat forces drops out
• 6,000 drops a second

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This project was supported by the National
Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0532536.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations are those of the author and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the
Foundation.