Industrial TIJ cartridges and thermal inkjet engineering.
Thermal inkjet cartridges & marking engineering
HP45-format thermal inkjet cartridges in 12.7 mm and 25.4 mm print widths — water-based, fast-dry solvent and covert UV. No chip lock-out, 42 ml industrial fill, and ink properties published before you order. We confirm the combination by printing on your own substrate first.
These are the issues buyers raise with us most often. None of them is solved by a cheaper cartridge alone — each one is an engineering question with a measurable answer.
OEM cartridges carry an encrypted chip. The printer refuses anything else, and refilling or third-party supply is blocked at the firmware level. You are not buying a cartridge, you are buying a supply agreement you cannot leave.
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Our cartridges are built as an open system: no chip lock-out and no authorisation handshake. You can run them alongside your existing supply, or as a second source, without replacing the printer.
A printer is a one-off purchase. The cartridges are a monthly cost that scales with output, and once the platform is locked the price is set for you. Buyers only discover how much of the total cost of ownership sits in consumables after the first year.
XinmoJet
We quote cartridges on a cost-per-mark basis against your actual coding content, so the comparison is against your real output rather than against list price. Industrial fill is 42 ml, not a reduced service fill.
A water-based ink that performs perfectly on carton will not bond to HDPE. When a line switches substrate — or a supplier changes the surface treatment — codes start smearing on the roller, and the failure appears two stations downstream from the cause.
XinmoJet
We treat ink selection as a substrate question first. Send the material and we will match the ink system to its surface energy, then print a sample and run the tape and wipe tests before you commit.
Missing nozzles leave white gaps through a date code. Causes range from air ingestion and ink starvation to dried ink on the nozzle plate after a long stop. It is usually blamed on the cartridge when the real cause is the run pattern.
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Cartridge construction and ink formulation both affect how long a head survives an idle stop. Our datasheets publish the decap behaviour per ink so you can plan stoppages, and the cartridge is replaced whole — nozzle, ink and filter together.
Every product line below has its own page with full specifications, because the people who buy this equipment read datasheets before they read brochures.
Fast-dry solvent ink on non-porous surfaces. 12.7 mm and 25.4 mm, 42 ml, open chip.
Read moreAnti-counterfeitingCovert marking that is invisible under daylight and reads under a 365 nm UV lamp.
Read morePrintersHalf-inch handheld unit, touchscreen, battery operated, six colours.
Read morePrintersOne-inch handheld unit for multi-line text and QR codes in a single pass.
Read morePrintersPhotocell trigger, encoder sync and multi-head stitching up to 76.2 mm.
Read moreEngineeringSurface energy thresholds, pretreatment and drying bands, by material.
Read moreAnswer two questions — the material you are printing on and what the code has to survive — and we will narrow the ink system, drying band and printer configuration for you.
Pick the material you print on and what the code has to survive. The recommendation updates immediately.
Most suppliers publish a colour and a volume. These are the numbers that actually determine whether a code survives handling, condensation and solvent exposure.
| Ink system | Code | Viscosity | Surface tension | Primary substrates | Drying band | Rub / wipe resistance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water-based (W) | Water-based | W | 1–5 mPa·s | 30–45 mN/m | Corrugated carton, Kraft paper, Wood, Paperboard | Under 1 s — absorbed into the fibre | Withstands a tape test on porous stock; confirm on your product |
| Solvent fast-dry (S) | Solvent fast-dry | S | 1.2–2.5 mPa·s | ≈23 mN/m (static) | HDPE, PP, PET, Coated metal, PVC, Glass | Typically 1–5 s on non-porous surfaces | Strong once fully cured — cure time, not dry-to-touch, is the limit |
| Covert UV (invisible) (U) | Covert UV (invisible) | U | 1–5 mPa·s | 30–35 mN/m | Pharma cartons, Cosmetic packaging, Labels, Documents | Carrier dependent, then verified under UV | High after full cure — verify under UV on the actual substrate |
| Oil-based (O) | Oil-based | O | 2–5 mPa·s | — | Flexible film, Foil, Specialty labels | Typically 1–5 s, coating dependent | To be confirmed against the supplier datasheet |
Viscosity and surface tension are published industry ranges for each ink class and are not a substitute for the ink-specific datasheet. Drying bands depend on substrate, ink load and ambient conditions. Every range above should be confirmed against the technical datasheet for your chosen model, and by sampling.
It is a technical statement about how the cartridge and printer authenticate, not a marketing adjective.
The cartridge does not require an authentication handshake with the printer to be accepted. There is no single-use enforcement and no firmware gate that stops a genuine cartridge from running.
You can qualify our cartridge alongside your current supply. Most buyers run a trial line first, then move volume once the sample passes their own quality check.
Viscosity, surface tension, drying band, print width and capacity are listed per model. Where a value is model-dependent we say so rather than publishing a favourable number.
Printhead, ink reservoir and filter are one assembly. A dropped nozzle is solved by changing the cartridge, not by a cleaning routine or a service visit.
We would rather spend a week on a sample than have you discover at commissioning that the ink will not hold.
Substrate and its surface state, line speed, coding content, environment — dust, condensation, washdown — and what the code has to survive afterwards.
You get a recommendation with the reasoning shown: which ink class, which print width, whether pretreatment is likely to be needed, and what we still cannot answer without a test.
We print on the actual substrate, then run tape, rub and wipe tests as applicable. You receive the printed pieces and the results, not a claim.
Once the sample passes, the cartridge model, print width and printer configuration are fixed. Reorder supply is then a part number, not a new project.
Tell us the material, the line speed and the text you need to print. We will recommend an ink system and put printed samples in the post so you can test them yourself.