Solid-Ink Printers

Solid-ink printers combine features of inkjet and laser printers to produce very fast and high-quality output for office printing requirements. Solid-ink printing was originally developed by Tektronix, but after the purchase of Tektronix by Xerox, all solid-ink printers are manufactured and sold by Xerox.

The Solid-Ink Printing Process

The solid-ink printing process has these major elements:

1.
Solid-ink printers use specially shaped bars of ink in the four standard colors used for printing (CMYK):

  • Cyan

  • Magenta

  • Yellow

  • Black

Each color uses a different shape to prevent misfeeds.
2.
The ink is heated and sprayed onto a rotating drum under computer control.
3.
Paper is heated and pressed against the drum to transfer the ink from the ...

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