Inkjet

A consortium of researchers from four European countries is developing a way to tattoo microbes on the exterior of buildings. These "living tattoos" will be able to suck carbon out of the air, protect the buildings, and even make them glow.

Ordinarily, if you want to make a 3D-printed liquid-filled object, you have to inject the liquid after the object has been printed. A new process, however, allows such items to be printed in one step – and it could have some valuable applications.

Inkjet printers may be an inexpensive way to print out holiday snaps, but they can be fragile machines and end up at the city dump well before they hit kindergarten age. Italian maker Michele Lizzit has designed a way to make use of spent printers to build an operational 3D printer for just €10.

​It's nice when baristas draw little things like hearts in the foam on your coffee. There's a chance, however, that those designs may be going the way of cave paintings. That's because Steam CC recently introduced its Ripple Maker, a machine that reproduces photos or other graphics on coffee foam.

A new nanoparticle liquid metal ink promises faster, cheaper, and easier production of stretchable, bendable electronics for clothing, soft robotics, and wearable devices created directly from an ink-jet printer.

Printer manufacturer Primera Technology has revealed what it reckons is the world's smallest, lightest all-in-one printer at this year's CES.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new technique to print advanced, ink-based electrical circuitry on a desktop printer. The technique can produce flexible electrodes in 60 seconds with equipment and materials that cost less than US$300.

Taking inspiration from the human eye, researchers at the University of Missouri have developed an inkjet print nozzle that prevents the printer head from becoming clogged when not in use.

July 4, 2007 A new mega-sized inkjet printer went on show at SHANGHAI AD Sign 2007 in China yesterday when NUR Macroprinters showed its advanced NUR Expedi

June 12, 2005 Brother Industries is demonstrating the world’s fastest inkjet printer at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan –a prototype designed to demonstrat