CN102642403B

CN102642403B - Ink-jet printer

Info

Publication number: CN102642403B
Application number: CN201210140653.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 何永刚
Original assignee: Print Rite Unicorn Image Products Co Ltd
Current assignee: Print Rite Unicorn Image Products Co Ltd
Priority date: 2012-05-08
Filing date: 2012-05-08
Publication date: 2014-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 2032-05-08
Also published as: CN102642403A

Abstract

The invention aims to provide an ink-jet printer capable of achieving both convenient recycling of paper with output data, and permanent maintaining of printed output data. In order to achieve the purpose, the ink-jet printer comprises a carriage unit provided with a first printing head and a second printing head, wherein an ink box containing ordinary type ink is arranged on the first printing head, and an ink box containing fading ink is arranged on the second printing head.

Description

Ink-jet printer

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of ink-jet printer.

Background technology

Ink-jet printer is that a kind of utilization is removably mounted to the ink that the print cartridge in it provides, and is sprayed on the printing device that forms image on the print media such as paper by printhead.Ink-jet printer generally comprises casing, paper advance mechanism, word mechanism of car and print control system etc., wherein in word mechanism of car, includes and prints word car, balladeur train and control circuit board, prints in word car print cartridge is installed.Different production firms is for the design concept of controlling oneself, and what have is integrated in printhead on print cartridge, with print cartridge, is removably mounted on and prints in word car; Have printhead is set directly at printed on word car.When ink-jet printer carries out work, printing word car slides along balladeur train, and from printhead, spraying ink to paper under the effect of print control system, moving perpendicular to the direction of printing word car glide direction in paper edge under the drive of paper advance mechanism, thereby on paper, forms visible print image.

Along with the maturing of printing technique, ink-jet printer ink also becomes more diverse, and wherein the data of conventional pigmented inks output can keep colour-fast for many years, therefore as long as add this ink can solve output data, keeps permanent problem in print cartridge.And the user of general ink-jet printer is carrying out when data is exported needing permanent maintenance except part, most data is generally use in short-term and only need keeps the shorter time, output data after using on paper is without maintenance, existence due to ink, the paper recycling that utilizes conventional pigmented inks output data is more difficult and can only discard, and causes great waste.At present, a kind of photosensitive can being developed by fading ink, thus the environmental protection that makes to have the paper of output data is reclaimed and is become possibility.

At ink-jet printer, use while can fading ink printing output, can solve the problem of the recycling of the paper with output data, the problem that but there will be printout data not keep for a long time.Solve the paper that output data only need be preserved in short-term can conveniently be reclaimed, the problem that the output data that can make again to keep for a long time can keep for a long time, existing ink-jet printer cannot be with a realization, and can only utilize two ink-jet printers to complete, this can cause the waste of resource and the increase of user cost undoubtedly.Therefore need a kind of paper with output data of can realizing to facilitate recycling, can realize again the permanent ink-jet printer keeping of printout data.

Summary of the invention

The object of this invention is to provide a kind of paper with output data of can realizing and facilitate recycling, can realize again the permanent ink-jet printer keeping of printout data.

For achieving the above object, the invention provides following scheme:

Ink-jet printer, comprises and prints word car, prints word car and has the first printhead and the second printhead, wherein on the first printhead, has the print cartridge that holds general type ink, on the second printhead, have hold can fading ink print cartridge.

User can select the first printhead or the second printhead to print as required, and when output data need to keep for a long time, choice for use is provided with the first printhead of the print cartridge that holds general type ink, to realize the permanent maintenance of output data; When output data only need be preserved in short-term, choice for use is installed the second printhead accommodate print cartridge that can fading ink and is printed, to realize the recycling that facilitates of paper.

More concrete scheme is that ink-jet printer has and controls the first control system that the first printhead prints and control the second control system that the second printhead prints.

Two cover control systems are installed in ink-jet printer, and when printing, user utilizes the control panel of computer or ink-jet printer to select required control system as required, to drive required printhead to print work.

Another more concrete scheme is that the first printhead and the second printhead are controlled by same control system, alternatively prints work.

In ink-jet printer, only have a set of print control system, when printing, user selects required printhead to make it in operating position, to print work, not carry out the printhead of work in dodging position as required.

Scheme is rotatable for printing word car more specifically, when the printhead more changing jobs, makes to print word car and in horizontal plane, rotates 180 degree around its center line.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the structural representation of first embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram that first embodiment of the invention is printed word car bottom;

Fig. 3 is the structural representation that first embodiment of the invention is printed word car and interlock circuit thereof;

Fig. 4 is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION figure that first embodiment of the invention is printed word car.

The specific embodiment

The first embodiment

The improvements of ink-jet printer of the present invention are print control system and print word car, and the structure of other parts of ink-jet printer is as similar with conventional ink-jet printer in paper advance mechanism etc., at this, will not describe in detail.

Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the present embodiment.As shown in Figure 1, ink-jet printer comprises casing 1, in casing 1, be provided with balladeur train 2, printing word car 3 can slide on balladeur train 2, printing word car 3 is electrically connected to the print control system in ink-jet printer by flexible data line 4, similar with conventional ink-jet printer, the present embodiment also only arranges a set of print control system.

Fig. 2 shows the polycrystalline substance of printing word car 3, as shown in Figure 2, print word car 3 bottoms and be provided with two printheads, be respectively the first printhead 31 and the second printhead 32, after being connected with printer control circuit, control circuit board 33 that the first printhead 31 prints work and be arranged on the sidewall near the printing word car 3 of the first printhead 31, after being connected with printer control circuit, control on the sidewall of printing word car 3 that circuit board 34 that the second printhead 32 prints work is arranged on close the second printhead 32.

Fig. 3 clearly show that and prints being electrically connected to of word car 3 and printer.As shown in Figure 3, print on word car 3 two cover print cartridges 37,38 are installed, wherein every cover print cartridge is all comprised of four print cartridges that different colours ink is housed respectively, wherein in print cartridge 37, accommodate common pigments ink, in print cartridge 38, accommodating can fading ink, and flexible data line 4 connects prints control circuit boards 5 and circuit boards (invisible in Fig. 3).And the first printhead is connected with print cartridge 37 fluids, the second printhead is connected with print cartridge 38 fluids.Sleeve 35 is slidably disposed on balladeur train, and is removably connected with printing word car 3 by conversion pin 36.

For further knowing, express sleeve 35 and the syndeton of printing word car 3, Fig. 4 has taked to decompose the mode of expression.As shown in Figure 4, sleeve 35 bottoms are provided with the tubular portion 351 with two through holes 352, print word car 3 central upper portion positions and be provided with the protruded stigma 39 being partly enclosed within tubular portion 351, on protruded stigma 39, be provided with the through hole corresponding with through hole 352 391, the through hole 352 that conversion pin 36 runs through sleeve 35 makes sleeve 35 relatively fixing with printing word car 3 with printing the corresponding through hole 391 of word car 3, thereby make to print word car 3, be connected slidably with balladeur train.

When circuit board 33 is connected with print control system, the first printhead 31 is in operating position, can reception control signal and in printing the process that word car 3 slides on balladeur train 2, spray ink and print work, and now the second printhead 32 is in dodging position.When circuit board 34 is connected with print control system, printhead 32 is in operating position, can reception control signal and on balladeur train 2, in sliding process, spray ink and print work printing word car 3, and now printhead 31 is in dodging position.At the first printhead 31 in operating position and wish is changed while printing the printhead of work, can pull up conversion pin 36, the protruded stigma 39 that makes to print word car 3 remain in sleeve 35 and make to print word car 3 around the center line of protruded stigma 39 in horizontal plane inward turning turnback, circuit board 33 departs from flexible data line 4, and circuit board 34 can obtain and being connected of flexible data line 4, again make conversion pin 36 run through through hole 352 and 391, print the printhead that carries out work of word car 3 and change complete.

When printing, user selects the printhead printing as required, when output data need to keep for a long time, makes the first printhead 31 in operating position, the common pigments ink being contained in print cartridge 37 is printed on paper by the first printhead 31, realizes the permanent maintenance of output data; When output data only need be preserved in short-term, make the second printhead 32 in operating position, be contained in can be printed on paper by the second printhead 32 by fading ink in print cartridge 38, after the paper with output data is used, can carry out recycling to this paper.Before printing, user as required, determines that whether required printhead is in operating position, if desired printhead is when dodging position, pull up conversion pin 36 and make to print word car 3 Rotate 180 degree, thereby required printhead turns to operating position from dodging position, can print work.

In the present embodiment, printhead is fixedly installed on to be printed on word car, be understandable that, printhead also can be integrated on print cartridge, in addition, the embodiment of changing position between the first printhead 31 and the second printhead 32 is not limited to rotate, as long as can conveniently realize the exchange of the two position, for example, the first printhead and the second printhead be set to can before and after or the adjacency of right and left mutually changing position.

The second embodiment

Different from conventional ink-jet printer is, print control system in the present embodiment is provided with two covers, and print word car and be provided with two printheads, be respectively the first printhead and the second printhead, wherein on the first printhead, the print cartridge that holds general type ink is installed, on the second printhead, be provided with hold can fading ink print cartridge.The first printhead and the second printhead be the operating position in working all, and the first control system in ink-jet printer is controlled the first printhead and printed work, and the second control system is controlled the second printhead and printed work.

When printing, user utilizes the control panel of computer or ink-jet printer to select required control system as required, when output data need to keep for a long time, choice for use the first control system, the first control system makes the first printhead carry out work, the common pigments ink being contained in print cartridge passes through the first printhead prints on paper, realizes the permanent maintenance of output data; When output data only need be preserved in short-term, choice for use the second control system, so that the second printhead work can be passed through the second printhead prints on paper by fading ink, after the paper with output data is used, can be carried out recycling to this paper.

In the present embodiment, printhead is fixedly installed on to be printed on word car, is understandable that, printhead also can be integrated on print cartridge.

Claims

1. ink-jet printer, comprises and prints word car,

It is characterized in that:

Described printing word car is provided with the first printhead and the second printhead, on wherein said the first printhead, has the print cartridge that holds general type ink, on described the second printhead, have hold can fading ink print cartridge;

When printing, user selects required printhead to make it in operating position, to print work, not carry out the printhead of work in dodging position as required.

2. ink-jet printer according to claim 1, is characterized in that:

Described the first printhead and described the second printhead are controlled by same control system, alternatively print work.

3. ink-jet printer according to claim 2, is characterized in that:

Described printing word car is rotatable, when the printhead more changing jobs, makes described printing word car in horizontal plane, rotate 180 degree around its center line.