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Printing technologies progressed rapidly as the adoption of personal computers spread through offices and homes. Inkjet printing, in particular, is a huge market, and billions of dollars have been invested to make inkjet print heads reliable, inexpensive, and widely available. As a result of advances in inkjet printing technologies, many application areas beyond photos and text have been explored, including electronics packaging, optics, and Additive Manufacturing. Some of these applications have literally taken the technology into a new dimension. The employment of printing technologies in the creation of three-dimensional products quickly became a promising manufacturing practice, both widely studied and increasingly widely used.

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  1. Department of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Ian Gibson

  2. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    David Rosen

  3. ANSYS, Park City, UT, USA

    Brent Stucker

  4. Deakin University, Armstrong Creek, VIC, Australia

    Mahyar Khorasani

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Gibson, I., Rosen, D., Stucker, B., Khorasani, M. (2021). Material Jetting. In: Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56127-7_7

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