Drop speeds from drop-on-demand ink-jet print heads

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hoath, Stephen D ^a   Hsiao, Wen Kai ^a   Jung, Sungjune ^a   Martin, Graham D ^a   Hutchings, Ian M ^a   Morrison, Neil F ^b   Harlen, Oliver G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY; DROP-ON-DEMAND; FLUID PROPERTY; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; SIMPLE MODELING; SIMPLE PHYSICAL MODELS; VOLUME CONSERVATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NOZZLES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPEED; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

DROPS;

EID: 84880401893     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: 19433522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2013.57.1.010503     Document Type: Article

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