InkJet

There are many types of inkjet cartridges available in the consumer market. However, very few of companies make it easy to interface with their cartridges. We will define a good interface as one which can integrate with RepRap electronics and software. Below are some notes on cartridges and implementations that may be of use to someone exploring powder printing, or different deposition methods.

Piezo

RepRappable

See also this page: Scratchbuilt Piezo Printhead.

Thermal

HP TIJ

The HP TIJ is a series of inkjet cartridges available from HP that are designed to be easy to interface with. File:Inkjet.pdf

Note: it would be good to 'uncompact' this
pdf into a proper wiki page.--Sebastien Bailard 07:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Control Software

Movement planning

Traditional multiple head inkjet printers use a droplet overlap method. Currently there is no known software applicable to RepRap that would generate these patterns from an image. For some research there are times when clear boundaries between colors are desired.

CMYK overlap

CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) overlap is the traditional method and process of producing color images from an inkjet printer. More information about the CMYK process can be found on the Wikipedia page.

Boundary Preserving

A Python 2.7 script is available which will take BMP images and generate G-Code paths that preserve the boundary between pixels. Further documentation is available on GitHiub at the link below.

Link: image_to_gcode