* The lifetime of inkjet prints produced by inkjets using aqueous inks is shorter ( although UV-resistant inks are available ) than those produced with solvent-based inkjets and so-called " archival inks " have been produced for use in aqueous-based machines which offer extended life.

In the early days of inkjet printing, the large droplets and low resolution made inkjet prints significantly inferior to dye-sublimation, but today's inkjets produce extremely high quality prints using microscopic droplets and supplementary ink colors, producing superior color fidelity to dye-sublimation.

Color photographs are placed next to inkjet prints and next to postcards and magazine clippings of his own images, reaching almost to the ceiling and the floor.

Giclée ( or ), is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.

The name originally applied to fine art prints created on IRIS printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print.

He wanted a name for the new type of prints they were producing on the IRIS printer, a large-format, high-resolution industrial prepress proofing inkjet printer they had adapted for fine-art printing.

Beside its original association with IRIS prints, the word giclée has come to be associated with other types of inkjet printing including processes that use fade-resistant, archival inks ( pigment-based, as well as newer solvent-based inks ), and archival substrates primarily produced on Epson, HP and other large-format printers.

In " Double Bill ", a 2012 series of large inkjet prints, Baldessari paired the work of two selected artists ( such as Giovanni di Paolo with David Hockney, or Fernand Léger with Max Ernst ) on a single canvas, further altering the appropriated picture plane by overlaying his own hand-painted color additions.

For inkjet prints, pigment-based inks last generally longest when used with specific paper types, whereas dye-based inks can be optimal on more types of paper.

Color prints made on most inkjet printers look very good at first but they have a very short lifespan, measured in months rather than in years.

The print quality of photo books varies from photographic paper prints to inkjet prints on normal paper.

The media he uses include watercolor, oil painting, inkjet prints and video.

He is mixing – on he's archival pigment inkjet prints, mounted on dibond – former „ Urban Jungles ” and Elegantly Wasted ” photo lines.

A second aspect of printer technology that is often forgotten is resistance to alteration: liquid ink, such as from an inkjet head or fabric ribbon, becomes absorbed by the paper fibers, so documents printed with liquid ink are more difficult to alter than documents printed with toner or solid inks, which do not penetrate below the paper surface.

Already such small devices, known as Microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ), are used in automobiles to tell airbags when to deploy, in digital projectors to create sharper images and in inkjet printers to create nozzles for high definition printing.

Sign cutting plotters are in decline in some applications, such as general billboard design, where wide-format inkjet printers that use solvent-based inks are employed to print directly onto a variety of materials.

Cutting plotters are often relied upon for precision cutting of graphics produced by wide-format inkjet printers, however-for example to produce window or car graphics, or shaped stickers.

However, not much should be read into this price difference as the printing costs for inkjet and laser printers are a great deal higher than for dot matrix printers, and the inkjet / laser printer manufacturers effectively use their monopoly over arbitrarily priced printer cartridges to subsidise the initial cost of the printer itself.

There are two main technologies in use in contemporary inkjet printers: continuous ( CIJ ) and Drop-on-demand ( DOD ).

In the thermal inkjet process, the print cartridges contain a series of tiny chambers, each containing a heater, all of which are constructed by photolithography.

As no special materials are required, the print head is generally cheaper to produce than in other inkjet technologies.

Piezoelectric ( also called Piezo ) inkjet allows a wider variety of inks than thermal inkjet as there is no requirement for a volatile component, and no issue with kogation ( buildup of ink residue ), but the print heads are more expensive to manufacture due to the use of piezoelectric material ( usually PZT, lead zirconium titanate ).

Aqueous inks are mainly used in printers with thermal inkjet heads, as these heads require water to perform.

There are two main design philosophies in inkjet head design: fixed-head and disposable head.

For some inkjet printers, monochrome ink sets are available either from the printer manufacturer or from third-party suppliers.

Some types of inkjet printers are capable of very high speed printing.

* The very narrow inkjet nozzles are prone to clogging.

Even the best dye-based inks are not as durable as pigment-based inks, which are now available for many inkjet printers.

* Many inkjet printers now utilize pigment based ink which are highly water resistant: at least black ink is pigment-based.

However, almost all modern computer printers also create their output as matrices of dots, but use a different technology like laser printing or inkjet printing, and are not called Dot Matrix printers.

This is in opposition to inkjet printers where inks are purchased by volume.

The original printers were an electrostatic technology using toners but now are generally large format inkjet printers using specially formulated inks.

Due to the fast development of digital textile printing, dye sublimation inks are becoming more and more popular in digital inkjet printing on fabrics.

Some professional wide format printers use aqueous inks, but the majority in professional use today employ a much wider range of inks, most of which require piezo inkjet heads and extensive maintenance:

Some of the devices can be patterned directly, much like an inkjet printer deposits ink.

The pads are deposited with a much larger gap between them, as much as 50 nm, which allows them to be added directly using technology adapted from inkjet printers.

It is becoming more common for large-format wide-carriage inkjet printers to be used to print onto heat-shrink plastic sheeting, which is then applied to a vehicle surface with adhesive and shrunk to fit using a heat gun, known as a vehicle wrap.

In comparison with the laser printer, most inkjet printers and dot-matrix printers simply take an incoming stream of data and directly imprint it in a slow lurching process that may include pauses as the printer waits for more data.

Today, a new dot matrix printer actually costs more than most inkjet printers and some entry level laser printers.

These factors make dye-sublimation generally a more reliable technology over inkjet printing.

The classic reproduction methods involved blue and white appearances ( whether white-on-blue or blue-on-white ), which is why engineering drawings were long called, and even today are still often called, " blueprints " or " bluelines ", even though those terms are anachronistic from a literal perspective, since most copies of engineering drawings today are made by more modern methods ( often inkjet or laser printing ) that yield black or multicolour lines on white paper.

The laser printer, though more expensive than the inkjet, is another affordable output device available today.

( A large-format inkjet print can cost more than $ 50, not including scanning and color correction, versus $ 5 for a four-color offset litho print of the same image in a run of 1, 000.

For example, a 4-colour inkjet printer that is used mostly for printing in gray scale and seldom in colour, may be pre-programmed to deplete colour inks while printing black, so that the colour cartridge ( s ) must be replaced more often.

One of the more modern inkjet label material stocks is waterproof printable inkjet material commonly used for soap or shower gel containers.

With most homes owning one or more digital cameras and inkjet printers, albums can be created as a family or event record, for both a short duration or as part of the family archives.