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Article: Touch-Free Tile Decoration.(New ink jet printing system for ceramic tile industry)
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- Ceramic Industry
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 BNP Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A new ink jet printing system developed specifically for ceramic tile promises to revolutionize the tile decoration process.
Ink jet printing has been used for decades to create colorful designs and images in a wide range of applications, including home, office, industrial, three-dimensional, medical and textile printing. A non-impact printing technology, ink jet printing uses droplets of ink jetted from a small aperture to a specified position on the media to create an image. Four colors--cyan, magenta, yellow and black, abbreviated as CMYK--are combined in various ways to create virtually any color required.
Recently, a new technology* has been ...