The inkjet printing process involves a chain of processes in many physical domains at different length and time scales. The final goal is the deposition of droplets of all kinds of fluids with any desired volume and velocity. To comply with the increasing and diverging requirements for today's inkjet technology, a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes is very important. By combining state of the art experimental and numerical techniques, the physics behind the chain of processes are being explored. The fundamental knowledge gained is crucial for the further development of the inkjet printing technology which became mature in graphical printing applications and plays a key role in many emerging new industrial and medical applications.

喷墨打印过程涉及许多物理领域中不同长度和时间范围的一系列过程。最终目标是以任何所需的体积和速度沉积各种流体的液滴。为了满足当今喷墨技术不断增长和多样化的要求，对基本过程的基本了解非常重要。通过结合最先进的实验和数值技术，正在探索过程链背后的物理学。获得的基本知识对于喷墨打印技术的进一步发展至关重要，喷墨打印技术在图形打印应用中已经成熟，并且在许多新兴的工业和医疗应用中起着关键作用。