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Figure 18.41 The nozzle of an ink-jet printer produces small ink droplets, which are sprayed with electrostatic charge.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The team's solution was a device that functioned much like an ink-jet printer: it would fire tiny droplets of water across the beam in a continuous stream with the nanocrystals in suspension.

From Nature • Jan. 29, 2014

The machine is an ink-jet printer that forms characters by shooting thousands of tiny ink dots onto a piece of paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

In college he built a functioning ink-jet printer out of Lego pieces.

From Time Magazine Archive

So there are instruction manuals in there for everything from the garbage disposal to the new ink-jet printer to the bike I got for Christmas when I was seven.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements