Tonejet

[1] Tonejet was first disclosed in Patent Cooperation Treaty publication WO 93/11866 dated June 24, 1993, with the inventor named as Luis Lima-Marques assigned to Research Laboratories of Australia Pty.

[3] The Tonejet process is an electrostatic drop-on-demand deposition technology that enables high-quality images to be printed onto virtually any type of absorbing or non-absorbing substrate at high speed.

The Tonejet ink is a key part of the ejection process; it consists of electrically charged conventional pigments in a non-conductive liquid.

[4] In late 2007, Tonejet announced that it had produced the world's widest integral printhead for use in an industrial printer.

[6] In June 2010, Air Berlin launched its own line of beverage cans after becoming the first customer for Ball Packaging Europe's technology co-operation with Tonejet.