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Industrial inkjet printing
What is industrial inkjet printing?
Industrial inkjet printing essentially means inkjet printing in manufacturing or on production lines - a similar principle to the inkjet printer on your desktop but very different in scale. While all inkjet technologies can fundamentally be described as the digitally controlled ejection of drops of fluid from a printhead onto a substrate, this is accomplished in a variety of ways. Industrial inkjet printing systems, and industrial inkjet printheads they are based on, are broadly classified as either continuous (CIJ) or drop on demand (DOD). There are variants within each classification.
As the name implies, continuous inkjet technology ejects drops continuously from the printhead. These drops are then either directed to the substrate as printing drops or to a collector for re-circulation and re-use. Drop on demand technology ejects drops from the printhead only when required.
