First, we asked, "How do laser printers work?"
Next, we asked, "How does toner work?"
Now, we have some info for the inkjet printer lovers out in Spiceworks. Inkjet cartridges have become a household object, but they're just as much a piece of high-tech gadgetry as the processor in your computer. To create an ink cartridge, there's a lot of precision engineering that goes into it:
Take a a wafer-thin wafer, which will eventually heat up the ink and jet it onto the paper:
Build a barrier - creates the chambers through which the ink will flow, provides a layer of electrical protection, and makes an adhesive surface for the orifice plate
Add an orifice plate - one 25-micron-thick sheet, but you can get an idea of what it'll look like in the scaled-up model below:
Form attachments - attach the orifice plate to the wafer with the barrier layer,...