Trident’s SolidJet™ Printhead

is a heated printhead that prints with solid, wax-based inks for printing on a wide range of substrates including porous, semi-porous and even non-porous.

Product Advantages

• Single printhead will produce alphanumeric characters, and codes up to 0.4 inches (10.2 mm) tall.
• Prints on a wide range of substrates including porous, semi-porous and even non-porous
• Good Adhesion
• Low Dot spread

Substrates/Advantages:

• Product or primary package marking and coding.
• Works on a wide range of substrates including plastics, glossy paper and other porous or non-porous surfaces.

Imaging Capabilities:

• Adjustible print height from 0.125" (3.2mm) to 1.8" (45.9mm)
• Optimum Image height: 0.4" (10.2 mm)
• Number of channels: 32
• Number of orifices: 192
• Vertical addressability: 80 pixels/inch (31.3 pixels/cm) at 0.4" print height
• Horizontal resolution: application dependent

Print Characteristics:

• Micro-droplets of ink ejected at frequencies of up to 9,000 drops per second in actual printing applications.
• Print orientation: sideways

Printhead Physical Dimensions

• Width: 1.1 inches (43.2 mm)
• Depth to electronic connections: 4.5 inches (114.3 mm)
• Depth to tubing connections: 6.34 inches (161.0 mm)
• Overall Printhead Height: 5.34 inches (135.6 mm)

Consumables/Accessories:

Ink Supply System design guidelines available to licensed OEM customers.

Closed-Loop™ compatible.

Closed-Loop™ configuration allows easy re-priming and reduces ink waste and operator intervention.

Ink Packaging:

Solid ink packaged insmall blocks and sold in multi-packs (multipack total = 640ml).

Tube length:

OEM determined based on solid ink delivery design