2008 Honors & Awards Progress Medal Award

摘要

The phenomenal growth of digital photography over the last two decades has been marked by a series of technological developments in several related fields. These individual pieces of discovery and/or creations, when made available as elements or adjuncts of the current practice, then add to the quality and expand the parameters for all of the previous developments. One of these notable developments was the Epson "Micro Piezo"~(TM) Variable Sized Dot technology. This technology delivers very small droplets when printing in fine detail and also larger droplets when printing larger areas of solid color and gradations of color. This technology utilizes piezoelectric pulses to propel the ink to the page instead of heat. These smallest dots can be compared to the size of a human hair. This process expands the life of the print heads as well increasing the quality and speed of printing.