CN101927605B - Method for maintaining ink jet head - Google Patents
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The invention relates to a method for maintaining an ink jet head for the maintenance of an ink jet printing machine comprising a control unit, an ink jet maintaining unit and at least one ink jet head. The method comprises the following steps of: reading corresponding ink jet maintenance data in a pre-established ink jet head maintenance table by the control unit according to the different print modes of a printer, wherein the ink jet head maintenance table comprises the ink jet maintenance data corresponding to the different print modes, and the ink jet maintenance data is the maintenance time of the ink jet head within a print preset time or the interval between two sub-ink jet head maintenances; and transmitting corresponding ink jet maintenance instructions to the ink jet maintaining unit by the control unit according to the read ink jet head maintenance data to control the ink jet head maintaining unit to perform the corresponding ink jet head maintenances by the control unit according to the corresponding ink jet head maintenance data. The method has the advantage of saving ink.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the inkjet technology field, relate in particular to a kind of ink jet head maintenance method.
Background technology
At present; Most of ink-jet printers all have the function of carrying out black and white (monochrome) printing or colour print separately; Carry out adopting when black and white is printed independent one group of black ink and shower nozzle, adopt four kinds of corresponding ink and ink gun groups of primary colours of CMYK (cyan, fuchsin, Huang, black) when carrying out colour print, so that print versicolor image or literal; Certainly, colour print is also printable goes out black white image.Ink-jet printer is printed for the user and generally is divided into two kinds, and a kind of is to print black white image or literal, and another kind is printing color picture or literal.In order to prevent the spray nozzle clogging of ink gun; Most of ink-jet printers are no matter the user prints any color; All be through ink gun spray one time or multipass during the maintaining ink-jet head with the ink of all colors; So the ink of the color that the user does not often use is also wasted often, but the user has to install the ink of the color that does not often use, because the program setting in the existing ink-jet printer is exactly just often just can print when the ink of all colors.That is to say that the corresponding ink gun of ink of all colors will be safeguarded once at set intervals basically, therefore, ink has been caused great waste, do not meet the energy-conservation joint carbon thought that current social is advocated.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem that the present invention mainly solves is, to the above-mentioned deficiency that prior art exists, the ink jet head maintenance method of the ink waste that a kind of minimizing causes because of ink jet head maintenance is provided.
The technical solution adopted for the present invention to solve the technical problems provides a kind of ink jet head maintenance method; The ink jet head maintenance that is used for inkjet-printing device; This inkjet-printing device comprises control module, ink jet head maintenance unit and at least one ink gun, and this method may further comprise the steps:
(1) control module reads corresponding ink jet head maintenance data according to the different printing model of printer from the ink jet head maintenance table of setting up in advance; Said ink jet head maintenance table comprises and the corresponding ink jet head maintenance data of different printing models that these ink jet head maintenance data are the maintenance times of ink gun in the print preset time or the blanking time of two adjacent ink jet head maintenances; And
(2) control module sends corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to the ink jet head maintenance data that read and instructs to the ink jet head maintenance unit, controls this ink jet head maintenance unit and carries out corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to corresponding ink jet head maintenance data.
Said printing model comprises print quality.
Said inkjet-printing device comprises at least one group of color ink gun, and this color ink gun comprises the ink gun that each primary colours are corresponding.
Said inkjet-printing device also comprises monochrome ink gun; This monochrome ink gun and said color ink gun can make this inkjet-printing device carry out monochrome separately and print or colour print; Said printing model also comprises the print colors type, and this print colors type comprises monochromatic the printing and two types of colour prints.
In the described ink jet head maintenance table of step (1), print when carrying out monochrome, when promptly the print colors type was monochromatic, monochrome ink gun was according to the corresponding different ink jet head maintenance data of different print qualities, and promptly the maintenance times in the correspondence of said print preset in the time is different; And color ink gun this print preset in the time maintenance times of ink gun minimum or do not safeguard; When carrying out colour print; Be the print colors type when colored; Color ink gun is according to the corresponding different ink jet head maintenance data of different print qualities; Promptly different in the maintenance times of the correspondence of said print preset in the time, and monochrome ink gun this print preset in the time maintenance times of ink gun minimum or do not safeguard.
Described print quality comprises the best, preferable, general and four kinds of grades of rough draft, and when the print colors type was monochrome, monochrome ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities was successively decreased successively; When the print colors type was colour, color ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities was successively decreased successively.
Said each primary colours are respectively cyan, fuchsin, Huang, black four primary colours.
Said printing model also comprises the mass-tone type of colour print; The primary colours that mainly use when this mass-tone type is colour print, said ink-jet maintenance unit is according to the maintenance times of the primary colours minimizing ink gun that other primary colours are corresponding in the said printing scheduled time that should mainly use.
Said inkjet-printing device only has monochrome ink gun.
Said control module judges whether to receive printer and is in the signal of printing maintenance state before reading corresponding ink jet head maintenance data.
Said control module judges whether to receive the print command of printer before judging whether that receiving printer is in the signal of printing maintenance state.
Said inkjet-printing device is an ink-jet printer.
Said inkjet-printing device is the compound all-in-one of multifunctional digital code.
Ink jet head maintenance method of the present invention is set different printing maintenance times to different print colors types with print quality; Ink gun to often not needing the ink of the color of use reduces maintenance as far as possible; Thereby can reduce the waste of these inks, and reach the effect of economy.
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Fig. 1 is the principle flow chart of ink jet head maintenance method of the present invention preferred embodiment.
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Ink jet head maintenance method of the present invention is applicable to ink-jet printer, MFP machine inkjet-printing devices such as (Multi-FunctionalPeripheral, the compound all-in-ones of multifunctional digital code).The inkjet-printing device of this preferred embodiment is an ink-jet printer.This inkjet-printing device comprises control module, ink jet head maintenance unit, at least one monochrome ink gun and at least one group of color ink gun; Print or colour print to carry out black and white (monochrome) separately, this color ink gun comprises the ink gun that each primary colours of printer (CMYK four primary colours or six-basic-color etc.) are corresponding.
As shown in Figure 1, Fig. 1 is the principle flow chart of ink jet head maintenance method of the present invention preferred embodiment.
Among Fig. 1, after ink jet head maintenance starts, carry out step S1, step S1 is for setting up an ink jet head maintenance table, and is as shown in table 1 below:
Table 1 ink jet head maintenance table
Wherein, said ink jet head maintenance table comprises and the corresponding ink jet head maintenance data of different printing models.This printing model comprises print colors type and print quality.The print colors type is divided into monochrome and colour, and print quality is divided into the best, preferable, general and four kinds of grades of rough draft, and the print quality of these four kinds of grades reduces successively.The service data of ink gun is for printing the maintenance times of ink gun in the scheduled time, for each nozzle of ink gun in this printing scheduled time is to carry out the number of times that ink jet head maintenance sprayed.The ink jet head maintenance data of this preferred embodiment comprise monochrome ink gun and color ink gun service data.In this preferred embodiment; The maintenance times of ink gun in the said printing scheduled time that each primary colours of color ink gun are corresponding is identical, and the color ink gun of table 1 refers to the maintenance times of ink gun in this printing scheduled time that arbitrary primary colours are corresponding in the maintenance times of printing in the scheduled time.In the table 1, the maintenance times of printing interior monochrome ink gun of the scheduled time and color ink gun is an empirical value, and promptly the numerical value of N+1, N-a, N-b, N-c is empirical value, and this numerical value can be adjusted according to different demands accordingly.Wherein, In the table 1; 1＜a＜b＜c, promptly when the print colors type was monochrome, monochrome ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities was successively decreased successively; And the maintenance times of color ink gun in this printing scheduled time is identical with the maintenance times that monochrome ink gun is under the rough draft, for minimum or be 0 (promptly not safeguarding); When the print colors type is colour; Color ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities is successively decreased successively; And the maintenance times of monochrome ink gun in this printing scheduled time is identical with the maintenance times that color ink gun is under the rough draft, for minimum or be 0 (promptly not safeguarding).Certainly, the ink jet head maintenance data also can adopt represent the blanking time of two adjacent ink jet head maintenances.
After setting up the ink jet head maintenance table; Get into step S2; Step S2 judges promptly whether control module receives the print command of printer, if then get into step S3 for confirming print command; Confirm to print maintenance state, judge promptly whether control module receives printer and be in the signal of printing maintenance state; Then directly get into step S8 if not.
After getting into step S3, if receiving printer, control module is in the signal of printing maintenance state, then get into step S4; Then directly get into step S8 if not.Step S4 is for confirming the print colors type, and this print colors type can obtain according to image information through user's selection or system, and promptly selecting is colour print or monochromatic the printing.After having selected the print colors type, further confirm print quality, promptly get into step S5, obtain print quality (this print quality comprises the best, and is preferable, general and four kinds of grades of rough draft, it can be selected by the user).
After having selected print colors type and print quality; Get into step S6; Promptly obtain the corresponding data of ink jet head maintenance table according to print colors type that obtains and print quality; In this step, the control module of this inkjet-printing device reads corresponding ink jet head maintenance data according to the printing model of step S3 and step S4 affirmation from the above-mentioned ink jet head maintenance table of setting up in advance.
Get into step S7 then, promptly control module sends corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to the ink jet head maintenance data that read and instructs to the ink jet head maintenance unit, controls this ink jet head maintenance unit and carries out corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to corresponding ink jet head maintenance data.
After step S7 accomplishes, get into step S8, i.e. 500 milliseconds of task dormancy repeat task next time afterwards again.
The order that is appreciated that above-mentioned steps S4 and S5 can be changed.
Above-mentioned ink jet head maintenance method is set different printing maintenance times to different print colors types with print quality; Ink gun to often not needing the ink of the color of use reduces maintenance as far as possible; Thereby can reduce the waste of these inks, and reach the effect of economy.
In addition; Be appreciated that; Above-mentioned ink jet head maintenance method also is applicable to the colour print inkjet-printing device that only is provided with CMYK four primary colours, and this inkjet-printing device only has color ink gun, and the different print qualities when the print colors type is for colour in its ink gun corresponding tables 1 are safeguarded accordingly; This method also is applicable to the inkjet-printing device that only is provided with monochromatic printing function, and this inkjet-printing device only has monochrome ink gun, and it in like manner sets the maintenance times of different ink guns according to different print qualities.In addition, print quality also is not limited to have only four kinds, can be for two kinds, three kinds or more than four kinds.
The printing model of the ink jet head maintenance method of another preferred embodiment of the present invention also can comprise the mass-tone type of colour print; The primary colours that mainly use when this mass-tone type is colour print; This mass-tone type can be judged according to required images printed information by user's selection or by print system; Said ink-jet maintenance unit (mainly uses cyan and fuchsin when printing according to the maintenance times that should the main primary colours that use reduces the ink gun that other primary colours are corresponding in the said printing scheduled time; At this moment; Can reduce the maintenance times of printing yellow and black ink-jet head in the scheduled time), thus the consumed ink amount of some color that does not frequently use reduced, reach the purpose of economy.
The above is merely preferred embodiment of the present invention, is not in order to limiting practical range of the present invention, and therefore all other do not break away from the equivalence of being accomplished under the disclosed spirit and change or modify, and all should be included in protection scope of the present invention.
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1. ink jet head maintenance method is used for the ink jet head maintenance of inkjet-printing device, and this inkjet-printing device comprises control module, ink jet head maintenance unit and at least one ink gun, it is characterized in that, this method may further comprise the steps:
(1) control module reads corresponding ink jet head maintenance data according to the different printing model of printer from the ink jet head maintenance table of setting up in advance; Said ink jet head maintenance table comprises and the corresponding ink jet head maintenance data of different printing models that these ink jet head maintenance data are the maintenance times of ink gun in the print preset time or the blanking time of two adjacent ink jet head maintenances; And
(2) control module sends corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to the ink jet head maintenance data that read and instructs to the ink jet head maintenance unit, controls this ink jet head maintenance unit and carries out corresponding ink jet head maintenance according to corresponding ink jet head maintenance data.
2. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: said printing model comprises print quality.
3. according to claim 1 or claim 2 ink jet head maintenance method, it is characterized in that: said inkjet-printing device comprises at least one group of color ink gun, this color ink gun comprises the corresponding ink gun of each primary colours of printer.
4. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 3; It is characterized in that: said inkjet-printing device also comprises monochrome ink gun; This monochrome ink gun and said color ink gun can make this inkjet-printing device carry out monochrome separately and print or colour print; Said printing model also comprises the print colors type, and this print colors type comprises monochromatic the printing and two types of colour prints.
5. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 4; It is characterized in that: in the described ink jet head maintenance table of step (1); Print when carrying out monochrome; Be the print colors type when monochromatic, monochrome ink gun is according to the corresponding different ink jet head maintenance data of different print qualities, and promptly the maintenance times in the correspondence of said print preset in the time is different; And color ink gun this print preset in the time maintenance times of ink gun minimum or do not safeguard; When carrying out colour print; Be the print colors type when colored; Color ink gun is according to the corresponding different ink jet head maintenance data of different print qualities; Promptly different in the maintenance times of the correspondence of said print preset in the time, and monochrome ink gun this print preset in the time maintenance times of ink gun minimum or do not safeguard.
6. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 5; It is characterized in that: described print quality comprises the best, preferable, general and four kinds of grades of rough draft; When the print colors type was monochrome, monochrome ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities was successively decreased successively; When the print colors type was colour, color ink gun corresponding print preset maintenance times in the time under these four kinds of print qualities was successively decreased successively.
7. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that: said each primary colours are respectively cyan, fuchsin, Huang, black four primary colours.
8. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 3; It is characterized in that: said printing model also comprises the mass-tone type of colour print; The primary colours that mainly use when this mass-tone type is colour print, said ink jet head maintenance unit is according to the maintenance times of the primary colours minimizing ink gun that other primary colours are corresponding in the said printing scheduled time that should mainly use.
9. according to claim 1 or claim 2 ink jet head maintenance method, it is characterized in that: said inkjet-printing device only has monochrome ink gun.
10. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: said control module at first judges whether to receive printer and is in the signal of printing maintenance state before reading corresponding ink jet head maintenance data.
11. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that: said control module at first judges whether to receive the print command of printer before judging whether that receiving printer is in the signal of printing maintenance state.
12. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: said inkjet-printing device is an ink-jet printer.
13. ink jet head maintenance method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: said inkjet-printing device is the compound all-in-one of multifunctional digital code.
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