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Liquid properties of a drying inkOn the vertical axis of the figure showing the stable jetting regime (Fig. 4), is the Ohnesorge number Oh. This ratio in inkjet printing describes primarily weather the viscosity dominates (high Oh) or surface tension " dominates (low Oh). At high viscosity, the liquid resistance to movement is too high, and therefore, no droplet is produced. At high surface tension, which is the energy needed to create new surface area, the liquid jet that is produced breaks up into multiple droplets to reduce the surface area as quickly as possible. When the viscosity and surface tension are balanced, the jetted ink becomes a single droplet, which is desired for high control. In inkjet printing, the inks are multi-component, and commercial inks can contain around 25 di erent ingredients. These ingredients include water in water-based systems, co-solvents like glycerol to tune the viscosity, pigment particles to provide the color, and surfactants to stabilize the mixture and promote droplet spreading on the substrate, to name a few. As the di erent components have di erent properties, like how fast they evaporate (volatility) or adsorption onto the surface, the ink can change in Oh during the time in-between droplet formations. The change in Oh can be significant during longer times, like in between printing proce-1 Meniscus oscillations driven by flow focusing lead to bubble pinch-o and entrainment in a piezoacoustic inkjet nozzle