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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ink Jet's: What's best?
Message-ID: <4410020@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 22:39:33 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>"thermal ink-jet"?
>what's that?  have they scrapped piezo-electric jets in favor of
>ink rockets?  or does "thermal" refer to how the ink is fused with
>the paper?
>	wayne hamilton

Thermal ink-jets use heat to eject the ink.  They are not
piezo-electric or mechanical.  Th'ink jets are much simpler than most
other printing technologies.  The ink is liquid at room temperature.
	charles@hp-pcd