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Ink Jet Printers for Professional and Home Use

Ink jet printers work by impelling a jet of colored ink tothe paper directly. Colors that are used by low-end jetsare magenta, yellow and cyan, however they provide muddyblack color. When pure black prints are required thenfour-color jets, having black ink are used. Ink jetprinters are put to special use by the industries. Theyare the most popular computer printers. Some of thespecial uses of these printers are for stock controlsystems, ATMs and cash registers.

Ink jet printers use cartridges to print, along with aseries of heated-chambers. For producing images, currentis induced in the heating elements. Bubble is formed inthe chambers due to the explosion of steam in them andthey in return impel a drop of ink on to the paper. Theexcess ink is sucked back when the bubble condenses. Insome jet printers instead of heating elements piezoelectriccrystals are present. This was the method employed by oldink jet printers along with electrostatic mechanism.

Ink jets are reasonably inexpensive. They are quick,quiet, with high resolution and provide good qualityprints. Other printers like thermal wax, laser printersand dye sublimations need some warm up time before startingto print, but ink jet printers start working as soon asthey are switched on.

The economic cost per page consumed by ink jet printers isalso less. Besides these benefits ink jet printers havesome disadvantages too. Some of the ink jet printers haveweak print heads and costly ink cartridges, as a resultconsumers prefer laser printers for simple applications.Ink bleeding due to capillary effect is another area ofconcern when buying ink jet printers. Although, there is aremedy to this problem it too has strings attached to it.Clay-treated papers are available in the market that canhelp minimize bleeding to some extent but they are bitexpensive besides having somewhat bad texture.

Apart from the popular small in size ink jet printers usedfor home and office purposes, there are wide format printinginkjet printers too. They produce prints having widthbetween 24 inches to 5 meters. All those big advertisements,posters and bills that you see on the bill boards in yourcity are the products of the professional ink jet printers.