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Is this a new technology or just a new use case for an existing process? Inkjet print heads are very close to the surface being painted but this process appears to have a few inches of clearance.

I suspect the paint has additives to help with this process. We didn’t see any color other than black in this demo.

The video doesn’t show any close up pictures of the process but it looks novel.

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I've seen this in UV printers, too (UV = inkjet, but the ink is cured with UV instead of solvent evaporation).

I poked around to figure out how they can print from so far away, but couldn't find any sources talking about it, and if printing from ~10cm away needs special tricks to accomplish or not.

The one trick I can think of to extend print distance would be increasing the drop size. That would probably be acceptable when printing on cars (the article) or mugs (UV printers) -- is that the trick?

Industrial inkjet designs can print from a very large distance, what I think is new on this one is using a robot arm to be able to print on different contoured surfaces.

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