COLOUR PRINTER REVIEWS

Inkjet printers

Inkjet and bubblejet printers work by firing tiny blobs of ink onto the paper from a number of tiny tubes that are in the print head.

Ink is taken into the tube from the ink cartridge. Tiny heating elements around the back of the tube then heat the rear of the ink, which eventually boils and vapourises. As the ink heats up it expands, causing the unheated portion of the ink to be fired on to the paper.

Dye sublimation printers