Characters are formed as a result of electrically charged or heated
ink being sprayed in fine jets onto the paper.
Individual nozzles in the printing head produce high
resolution (up to 400 dots per inch or 400 dpi) dot matrix characters.
An inkjet printer |
Colour cartridge showing inkjet nozzles |
Inkjet printers use colour cartridges which combine magenta, yellow and cyan inks to create colour tones. A black cartridge is also used for crisp monochrome output.
This method of
printing can generate up to 200 cps and allows for good quality, cheap colour printing.
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