Effects of fluid viscosity on drop-on-demand ink-jet break-off

International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 10-13

  Hoath, Stephen D ^a   Martin, Graham D ^a   Hatchings, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP-ON-DEMAND; FLOW CONDITION; FLUID VISCOSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INK-JET; INVISCID FLUIDS; JET LENGTH; LOW VISCOSITY FLUIDS; NECK FORMATION; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NOZZLE EXITS; NOZZLE RADIUS; OFF TIME; PINCH-OFF REGION; PINCHOFF; POWER LAW; POWER LAW INDEX; PRINT HEAD; RADIAL VELOCITY; TRUNCATED CONE; VISCOSITY FLUIDS; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

DIGITAL PRINTING; DROPS; INK; NOZZLES; OPTIMIZATION; VISCOSITY;

FLUIDS;

EID: 79955718344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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