On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:57:24 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

On a sunny day (Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:14:04 +0000 (UTC)) it happened "Geoffrey
S. Mendelson" wrote in
:

Greegor wrote:
Do inkjet printers handle the simily waveform well?

Inkjet printers use very low power stepper motors to move the head and paper,
and very tiny heaters to make the ink bubble up.

Epson inkjets do not use heat at all, but piezo elements to push the ink out.
Better, allows more more types if ink, and is faster, and allows for better control
of the droplets.
Yes I have couple of Epsons:-)
But their service sucks as it is non-existing.

The problem with Epsons used to be that the print head stayed on the
printer, where HP replaces them with each cartridge.

That may have changed now though, since I haven't bought a printer in
years, and have seen several would be huge advances in detail and color
range capability. I don't know how they spray these days though, or who
the big print engine maker is, or if they all make their own now or what.

Used to be Canon. Seems like there are a lot of different "engines"
out there now though. Tektronix and Xerox still use solid ink methods.
I though most ink jet setups were piezo though by now, since it has such
precise fractional portioning ability.