B41J 2/04593
Dot-size modulation by changing the size of the drop
Official title: {Dot-size modulation by changing the size of the drop}
B41J2/04593 (Dot-size modulation by changing the size of the drop) appears on 1,001 US grants and 995 published applications in this corpus.
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