Formulation of a ceramic ink for a wide-array drop-on-demand ink-jet printer

Ceramics International

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 887-892

  Zhao, X ^a,c   Evans, J R G ^a   Edirisinghe, M J ^a   Song, J H ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D. Zirconia; Ink jet printing; Solid freeforming

Indexed keywords

INK; PRINTING; VISCOSITY; ZIRCONIA;

INK JET PRINTERS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0141733216     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-8842(03)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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