Printers often use surfactants in the printing of paper with ink. Explain why this might be.

Question

Printers often use surfactants in the printing of paper with ink. Explain why this might be.

Answer 1

Surfactant s are substances that reduces surface tension across the surface of different pair of media acting against another. In order to achieve a high quality print,ink with high surface tension is required. Surfactant are needed to provide or help wet the inner walls of nozzle jet