Thermal inkjet technology has long been used in the printing industry, but little has been studied on the benefits that it can provide to the drug-screening field. The objective of the work reported here was a proof of concept of using a modified inkjet printer to have a more accessible and miniature cellomic anticancer drug-screening platform. The authors’ previous findings have shown that inkjet-based screening can reliably create isolated arrays of spots of living cells and antibiotics at low volume (180 pl) and high throughput (213 spots/sec) [J. I. Rodríguez-Dévora, B. Zhang, D. Reyna, Z. D. Shi, and T. Xu, “High throughput miniature drug-screening platform using bioprinting technology,” Biofabrication
Jorge I. Rodríguez-Dévora, Mohammod Bhuyan, Daniel Reyna-Soriano, Thomas Boland, "Growth-Inhibitory Effect of Chemotherapeutic Drugs Dispensed by Inkjet Bioprinting on Cancer and Non-Cancer Cells" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2016, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2016.60.4.040406