|This Ph.D. project is a part of the Octopus project, a joint
endeavor of industrial and academic partners with the Embedded
Systems Institute. The industrial partner is OCE, a world-
leading manufacturer of professional printers. The academic
partners are Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven
University of Technology, Twente University and Radboud
University Nijmegen. The Octopus project aims at improving the
adaptability of OCE-printers to changing environment conditions,
media, customer desiderata and printer dynamics (due to wear,
toner contamination, etc.). This project is partly funded by the
Dutch Government. This particular PhD project pertains to the
improvement of the printing quality of a Drop-on- Demand (DoD)
inkjet printhead using a system and control approach. The
ability of Inkjet technology to deposit materials with diverse
chemical and physical properties on a substrate has made it an
important technology for both industry and home use. Apart from
conventional document printing, the inkjet