Ah yes, but have you actually _seen_ the resistors (in a picture or for
yourself).
'cause, if i rember right, i had a look with a 'scope back than and
couldn't see anything between the gap of the apparent electrodes.
ST
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:24:01 +0200, Steve <alienrelics@...> wrote:
> Google is your friend.
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> "In a bubble jet printer, tiny resistors create heat, and this heat
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> vaporizes ink to create a bubble. The expansion that creates the
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> bubble causes a droplet to form and eject from the print head."
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> "The first of these technologies is called the Thermal Bubble
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> technology. This technology is very popular and is used by well known
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> printer manufacturers such as Canon as well as Hewlett Packard and
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> several others. The thermal bubble technology is more popularly known
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> as the bubble jet technology. In Ink Jet printers that use the thermal
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> bubble technology small resistors are used to produce heat. The
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> purpose of creating this heat is so that it can vaporize the ink in
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> order to make a bubble. When this created bubble swells up, a specific
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> amount of the ink is forced out of a nozzle and is put on to the page
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> that is being printed on. As the bubbles bursts it has the effect of
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> creating a vacuum. This created vacuum serves a very important purpose
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> in the over all printing process. The vacuum pulls some more ink from
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> the ink cartridge and puts it in to the print head."
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> "The thermal drop on demand ink jet technology is very popular. Used
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> by HP, Canon and others, droplets of ink are forced out of the nozzle
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> by heating a resistor, which causes an air bubble to expand. When the
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> bubble collapses, the droplet breaks off and the system returns to its
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> original state."
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> Steve Greenfield