Abstract
Inkjet is an important technology in photo printing.
Matte-coated paper which was developed for early generation dye inks continues to be used to the present day as the most convenient media without undergoing significant change of main structure, although it has been improved and adjusted for new inks such as pigment inks, photo inks etc. and new digital half toning techniques like error diffusion method.
The micro-porous media was developed some time later and became the major media for photo printing. Nowadays the photo quality of it can compare favorably with that of silver halide photography which has been aimed for a long time.
However the rival in the imaging viewer has not been silver halide photography anymore and has started to turn to electronic media such as the liquid crystal, although inkjet technologies have changed the environment surrounding photo printing drastically.
Many basic technologies of inkjet media that can produce high quality image were created through the development of matte-coated paper.
