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Meniscus Motion Inside A DoD Inkjet Print-Head Nozzle
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2017.32.348  Published OnlineSeptember 2016
Abstract

A new study of the jetting performance for drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet print heads investigated meniscus motions inside the transparent nozzles of MicroFab inkjet print heads. A composite image representation of the observed meniscus motions, imaged at high resolution using a spark flash light source, was developed for our subsequent analyses of the influences of drive voltage and pulse dwell time and also the ink properties. At higher drive voltages a slow damped refill (following de-pinning of the meniscus from the very edge of the nozzle exit) was also clearly observed. This and many other interesting phenomena were observed with the composite images: internal bubbles that progressed through the nozzle region over relatively long timescales, internal break-off of the jet from the meniscus surface, satellite formation and merging, and the contact line de-pinning not previously observed before..

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Claudio S Ravasio, Stephen D Hoath, Graham D Martin, Peter Boltryk, Marko Dorrestijn, "Meniscus Motion Inside A DoD Inkjet Print-Head Nozzlein Proc. IS&T Printing for Fabrication: Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP32),  2016,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2017.32.348

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