The Georgia Tech MicroFab JetLab II table-top ink-jet microdispensing and printing platform, located in the Georgia Tech Biocleanroom, is useful for a wide variety of applications. Typical inks include polymers, adhesives, metallic nanoparticles, and biological materials, including diagnostic reagents, proteins, and DNA. As a non-contact printing process, the accuracy of ink-jet dispensing is not affected by how the fluid wets a substrate, and the fluid source cannot be contaminated by materials on the substrate. In addition, the ability to free-fly fluid droplets allows the fluid to be dispensed into and onto non-planar and complex structural features.