Just as the types of ink vary depending on the product being printed and the materials and quality of the end-product, the inkjet types vary. As an inkjet ink manufacturer we produce three main varieties, they are thermal, piezo and continuous, which is a commercial bulk inkjet printer. Ink in thermal, piezo and continuous inkjet types are manipulated uniquely for their respective applications. Thermal inkjets printers are the ones most anyone on a budget can afford. The principle behind its simple but effective process was discovered by Ichiro Endo, a Canon engineer, in 1977. Then there's piezo, or piezoelectrical inkjets, which can be seen on most commercial grade printers that utilize bulk ink. Injet printer models like this contain a piezoelectrical material, usually a crystal that changes shape or size, then generates pressure that then forces a drop of ink from the nozzle; this is different from the thermal inkjet dynamic in which the ink is heated and vaporizes into the nozzle, forming a bubble the mass of which is too large for the confines of the nozzle and thus is pushed out. If you are interested in inkjet ink wholesale, or any custom inks, be sure to contact us to see how we can meet your needs.

Interestingly, it was way back in 1867 that the seed for the third type of inkjet, continuous, was planted. Lord Kelvin patented his idea on the cusp between the agricultural period and the industrial revolution, but it wasn't until over eighty years later that the Siemens company created the first commercial model for coding packages, a sort of bulk inkjet printer. Ink manipulation in the continuous method requires a pump that guides it from a reservoir and through the gunbody and nozzle. A continuous stream of ink droplets results. In the gunbody is a piezoelectrical crystal that causes an acoustic wave when it vibrates; this makes the stream of liquid break up into droplets at regular intervals. A charging electrode is then used to control the droplets by giving them the degree of charge required. Some of the droplets are uncharged "guard droplets" that are used to decrease the amount of repulsion between adjacent droplets, a condition applied to all inserted bulk ink. Inkjet printer electrostatic deflection plates, then, deflect some but not other droplets, as the more highly charged a droplet is, the greater the degree of its deflection. Interestlingly, only a very small percentage of the droplets are used to print; the rest are recycled.