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Photos is the last thing I’d buy an inkjet printer for. I’d be using a home inkjet to make circuit boards, temporary shirts, screen printing masks, transparencies, stickers, etc.
"Agilent developed a way to print strands of DNA from the four nucleic acid bases—cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), and thymine (T)."
"Inkjet systems are particularly suited for printing drugs in the form of thin films, such as transdermal patches to be applied to the skin and buccal films to be held in the cheek, where drugs can pass directly to the bloodstream without first going through the digestive system."
These applications are from dedicated machines, not available at BestBuy. Though I would like to see a supplier selling conductive inks for circuit board prototyping, and just maybe a home system could be filled with DNA or medicines??
The article also gave an interesting overview of the micro-dosing technology using for example piezo-electrics.
I've heard of using Laser printers for this but not InkJet
Inkjet printers are used in a direct print to PCB (remember those inkjet printers that could print on CDs back in the day?)
Huh. Printing photos is one of the main areas where inkjets still blow lasers out of the water.