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New Printhead Design Targets Industrial Inkjets
PicoJet Targets Industrial Inkjet Applications With Cost-Effective,
Reliable and Versatile New Piezo Printhead Design.HILLSBORO, OR, Feb. 05 – PicoJeT, Inc., a printhead design and manufacturing
company founded by Hue Le, the former Director of Technology Development for
Tektronix Printing and Imaging Division, today announced that it is ready to
move into pilot production of a unique new piezo inkjet printhead design aimed
at companies designing industrial inkjet systems.PicoJet is now looking
for partners with whom it can scale up this technology to address diverse
industrial printing and fluid-jetting applications including biotech,
electronics, radio frequency id (RFID) tags and others.“Our new design avoids almost all of the problems that reduce printhead
performance, making it a breakthrough for industrial printing and fluid-jetting
systems,” says Ray Veillet, vice president of business development at PicoJet,
Inc. “Our technology lends itself to automated manufacturing which can result in
a very low priceper nozzle.”Ultrasonic Bonding Technology
PicoJet’s new PJ-N256 printhead
design uses a patented, ultrasonic bonding technology which creates a
metal-to-metal bond allowing the printhead to be heated and to jet a wide range
of very aggressive ink chemistries including UV-curable, oil, water, solvent,
hot melt (wax) and other difficult to jet fluids. For example, in biotech
applications it can act as a micro pump dispensing fluids in picoliter doses. In
electronics applications it can be used to jet conductive fluids.This innovative new printhead technology delivers a number of advantages.
Because neither epoxy nor ceramic are used in the ink channel, the printhead is
not susceptible to nozzle clogging and can jet virtually any fluid with a high
level of reliability. The design is suitable for automated assembly for
extremely cost-effective manufacture and low unit pricing.PicoJet, Inc. designs and manufactures state-of-the-art piezoelectric
drop-on-demand printheads. The company was founded in 1997 by Hue Le, the former
Director of Technology Development for Tektronix Printing and Imaging Division,
to develop a printhead that could address the specific needs of a wide range of
industrial printing applications in biotechnology, drug related research,
electronics/conductive fluids, RFID tags and others. The company is now ready to
partner with developers of industrial printing and jetting systems and to move
into pilot production.
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