From the very start, TTP has taken a leadership position in digital printing. As well as providing an impartial fast-track route to the development of printing products using commercial printheads, TTP has developed specialist technologies that enable a range of complex functional inks containing, for example, biological materials, ceramics and metals, to be digitally printed.
When one of TTP's business areas developed a new electronic aerosol, the idea soon spread. The technology was intended for a medical device, but it also presented a fantastic opportunity for a new type of inkjet printhead.
Many commercial opportunities for inkjet technology are currently constrained by the properties and costs of the inks and go under-exploited. The architectures used in conventional inkjet printheads lead to high sensitivity to viscosity, surface tension, bubbles and large particles. This results in expensive inks and application limitations.
While developing an open chamber electronic aerosol, we recognised that the same inertial ejection mechanism and open chamber could transform inkjet printing. With further development, we designed the revolutionary Vista inkjet. Our initial expectations were far exceeded when the true scope of the ink formulations that could be used in Vista Inkjet was realised.
Suspensions of large particulate-based inks can be readily printed and in addition to the commercial opportunity of low-cost inks, applications have grown exponentially to include a huge range of highly functional inks such as ceramics, metals, biological materials and chemistries.
When you combine this with the broader benefits of digital material deposition and the potential for high reliability and very large format arrays, you have an exciting and revolutionary technology offering.
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