Even today’s budget-priced home printers churn out quality photos that a few years ago you could have gotten only from a professional printing house. Key to the high quality are steady improvements in print heads, which can eject smaller and smaller droplets of ink with ever-greater precision.
A decade ago, eight-picoliter drops (that’s eight trillionths of a liter) were considered small. These days, inkjet printers deliver drops as tiny as one picoliter through thousands of nozzles—some less than half the width of a human hair.
To make prints that look like photos instead of finger paintings, the printer must precisely control how much ink comes out of every nozzle, every time, at a rate of up to 22,000 drops per second.
Two types of technology can squeeze ink through the nozzles.


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Oh my yes the home ink jet printer has come of age. I am from the era when sending your disc through the camera shop was all the rage. How much time did this take? Also having prints taken from the old film cartridge. How long did we wait during the 1980's. Up to a week, I recall. Now it is immediate and the quality is fantastic.
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