Mobile printer using ferrofluids
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMUKUNDAN SUNDARARAJAN, SHILPA SHETTY
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Abstract
Described are techniques for ferrofluidic printing. The techniques including a method comprising receiving an electronic document at a ferrofluidic printer from a user device via a short-range network. The method further comprises applying a magnetic field to a ferrofluid to form a ferrofluidic template approximating a portion of the electronic document. The method further comprises projecting ink through the ferrofluidic template and onto a page using a blower.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an electronic document at a ferrofluidic printer from a user device via a short-range network;
- applying a magnetic field to a ferrofluid to form a ferrofluidic template approximating a portion of the electronic document;
- and
- projecting ink through the ferrofluidic template and onto a page using a blower.
A ferrofluidic printer comprising:
- a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field;
- a ferrofluidic template comprising a ferrofluid and configured to approximate a portion of an electronic document in response to the magnetic field;
- a blower configured to project ink particles through the ferrofluidic template;
- and
- a block/pass layer configured to transition from a block mode to a pass mode after the magnetic field is generated and before the blower projects the ink particles through the ferrofluidic template.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a ferrofluidic printer to cause the ferrofluidic printer to perform a method comprising:
- receiving an electronic document at a ferrofluidic printer from a user device via a short-range network;
- applying a magnetic field to a ferrofluid to form a ferrofluidic template approximating a portion of the electronic document;
- and
- projecting ink through the ferrofluidic template and onto a page using a blower.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.