Digital BW, The Print

At 11:21 PM 1/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Oh, so it appears that the individual nozzles may not even get dried out,
>but the bottom of this "screen" material does.
>
>It's easy to see how any drying of ink down there could "deflect" the ink,
>preventing it from hitting the paper precisely where the nozzle is trying to
>put it.
>
>It's amazing these suckers work at all. ;-)
>
>Todd
>
>
>>> Tod,
>>> 
>>> It LOOKS to me like the printing surface, ie the surface the ink droplets
>>> get jetted from. You can just see three pairs of light black lines on the
>>> image which will be the two rows of nozzles (each head is made up of a pair,
>>> with even and odd 'lines' on different columns).
>>> 
>>> Nij
>>> 

The parts inside the head are way-fine. It is hard to determine exactly how
it works. There seems to be only three double rows of jets. 
I added some more pictures of the opened head on my web pages:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8874/inkjet1.html

AZ
Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.

www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/8874/
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