ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Ink jet

Ink jet is a way to print pictures or words onto paper using tiny little droplets of ink.

It's kind of like how you use a water gun to shoot water at a target, but instead of water, it's ink and instead of a target, it's paper.

There are special printers that are designed to do this. When you want to print something, you send a message to the printer telling it what you want to print. The printer gets to work and starts spraying tiny little drops of ink onto the paper.

The ink comes out of the printer through tiny nozzles that are found inside the printer's ink cartridges. These cartridges hold different colored inks, like red, blue, green, and black. By spraying different combinations of these colors onto the paper in different ways, the printer can create all sorts of pictures and words.

The ink jet printer is a really cool way to print things. It's fast, it's easy to use, and it can create all sorts of amazing stuff!