Thermal Ink Jet Printers

Domino's Thermal Ink Jet printers have been developed to offer the high quality, high speed and flexible coding required by manufacturers today.

Thermal Ink Jet (TIJ) technology is a well-established form of printing that is clean, reliable and maintenance-free and used in many workplaces for printing on porous surfaces. Originally developed for desktop printers, Thermal Ink Jet printing is designed to be inexpensive, quiet, and easy to use. Pioneering development of this technology in the industrial environment, Domino is able to extend the application areas through the use of fast drying inks for coding non-porous materials such as:

• paper
• coated carton
• plastics
• metal

Domino’s Thermal Ink Jet (TIJ) printers include G-Series| for Pharmaceutical| , Food|, Cosmetics and Personal Care| and Tobacco| applications, and L-Series|  for your Mailing requirements.

Key benefits

Thermal Ink Jet printing has many benefits, depending on your requirements.  DominoG-Series|  and L-Series| printers can offer:

• High speed - producing high-quality printing at high speeds, with hundreds of tiny nozzles firing at a high frequency
• High quality - providing superb image and text quality by placing smaller drops more accurately
• Ease of use - requiring no special training to operate and maintain. Cartridges are clean, and easy to install
• Reliability - Thermal Ink Jet solutions provide unrivalled reliability, resulting in minimum maintenance - change of cartridge changes whole printhead without requiring a service engineer
• Flexibility - providing the ability to run multiple printheads, the ability to print in black or colour simply by exchanging the cartridge you need for printing onto coated and uncoated surfaces
• Cost-effectiveness - Low running costs and simple and clean fluids replacement requiring no warm-up cycle or downtime

How it works

Domino’s Thermal Ink Jet printers use print cartridges with a series of tiny electrically heated chambers constructed by photolithography . To produce an image, the printer runs a pulse of current through the heating elements causing a steam explosion in the chamber to form a vapour bubble, which propels a droplet of ink out of the nozzle placing them precisely on a surface to form text, barcodes or graphics onto the substrate. The ink's surface tension, as well as the condensation and thus contraction of the vapour bubble, pulls a further charge of ink into the chamber through a narrow channel attached to an ink reservoir.  The refill is ready to fire again in less than 100 millionths of a second.