Arrayjet released the new Ultra-Marathon Inkjet Microarrayer. The Ultra-Marathon is based on the same platform as its predecessors, the Marathon and Super-Marathon Inkjet Microarrayers. It utilizes the piezoelectric inkjet technology developed by Arrayjet for the high-speed production of high quality microarrays. The Ultra-Marathon adds patented slide-handling capability to the platform, increasing its capacity to 1,000 1x3” (25x75mm) glass slides. In isolation, this represents a significant enhancement, but when combined with the recently announced Array Multiplier software module, which enables users to specify almost any number of mini-arrays to be printed on each slide (space permitting), there could be 1000 slides each bearing, for example, 16 mini-arrays. This means that a total of 16,000 microarrays could be produced in a single, fully automated print run.

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This article was published in Drug Discovery & Development magazine: Vol. 11, No. 8, August, 2008, pp. 26.