Ink jet printing system, ink container and method of preparing the same

摘要

Ink jet printing system comprising a print head (10), a replaceable ink container (18), an ink supply system (20) connecting the ink container to the nozzles (14) of the print head, and a temperature control system (22, 24, 26) controlling the temperature of the ink in the ink supply system (20), characterized in that an information permitting to determined an optimal operating temperature for the ink is physically encoded (28) on the ink container (18) so as to be read by the temperature control system (26, 30).