The divisional application that the present patent application is the applying date is on December 31st, 2011, application number is 201110460644.5, denomination of invention is the patent application of " the filling method for ink and device of a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment ".
Detailed description of the invention
In order to make the application the technical staff in the technical field more clearly understand invention, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and specific embodiment, technical scheme of the present invention is described in detail.
What Figure 1 shows that a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment of the present invention fills method for ink schematic diagram, specifically comprises:
Step 101, obtain with supplementary ink corresponding to print cartridge is newly installed fill black number.
Buy the print cartridge corresponding with equipment afterwards to carry out to make user and fill ink, user can obtain one and represent unique fixing equipment Serial Number corresponding to this Digital ink jet printing equipment after buying Digital ink jet printing equipment.
In addition, to one should be had to fill ink number on the new installation print cartridge of described Digital ink jet printing equipment, wherein saidly fill the character string that ink number is a certain length, just need to fill black number input described in the system controller software systems of described Digital ink jet printing equipment carrying out filling ink before.
Step 102, fills the first device number in black number, and is mated with unique permanent plant sequence number of described Digital ink jet printing equipment by described first device number described in acquisition;
After described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains and fills black number, the first device number is obtained described filling in black number, and described first device number is mated with the unique permanent plant sequence number stored in described Digital ink jet printing equipment, if mate unsuccessful, then ink failure is filled in prompting, if the match is successful, then carry out next step.
Step 103, if the match is successful for described first device number and described equipment Serial Number, then obtains the supplementary ink corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment ink number measure from described filling, fill ink according to this supplementary black measuring to described Digital ink jet printing equipment.
Ink amount can be obtained when filling ink to make user, therefore number comprise one measure with the supplementary ink that described numeral fills ink print equipment corresponding at the described ink that fills, after the described supplementary ink amount of acquisition, and by the residue ink limit show in described Digital ink jet printing equipment after supplementary ink amount.
In addition, in order to prevent user, the print cartridge exceeding service time is filled ink to described printing equipment, therefore also include described filling in black number time limit effective time that one is newly installed print cartridge, before the supplementary ink amount of basis fills ink to described Digital ink jet printing equipment, by from described fill ink number in obtain described time limit effective time and current time compare, determine whether described new installation print cartridge exceedes the term of validity, if it is the new print cartridge of installing of prompting fills ink failure, if not then carrying out filling ink according to described supplementary ink amount.
What be illustrated in figure 2 a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment of the present invention fills device for ink structure chart, and described device comprises:
Fill ink acquisition module 201, for obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with newly installing print cartridge fill ink number;
Matching module 202, for filling the first device number in ink number described in obtaining, and mates described first device number with unique permanent plant sequence number of described Digital ink jet printing equipment.
Fill black module 203, if for described first device number and described unique permanent plant sequence numbers match success, then obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment ink number measure from described filling, according to this supplementary black measuring, ink is filled to described Digital ink jet printing equipment.
Time check module 204, for being compared in described time limit effective time and current time, determines whether described new installation print cartridge exceedes the term of validity, and if it is the new print cartridge of installing of prompting fills ink failure.
What the invention provides a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment fills method for ink and device, obtain with supplementary ink corresponding to print cartridge is newly installed fill black number, the first device number filled in black number is mated with described equipment Serial Number, if the match is successful for described first device number and described equipment Serial Number, then obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment ink number measure from described filling, according to this supplementary black measuring, ink is filled to described Digital ink jet printing equipment.Thus avoid user use different ink on same ink-jet apparatus, and then effectively protect ink-jet printing apparatus, improve the spray printing quality of ink-jet printing apparatus, maintain the just rights and interests of Digital ink jet printing equipment supplier.
As shown in Figure 3, invention provides a kind of method obtaining digital ink-jet printing apparatus ink use amount, specifically comprises:
Step 301, obtains the page dot-matrix data of arbitrary printing, and this printing comprises multiple printed leaves;
Printing is converted to page dot-matrix data by user terminal, and described page dot-matrix data is sent to ink-jet printing apparatus.
Step 302, according to described page dot-matrix data obtain the first printed leaves in described printing comprise correspondence first pixel number of print content.
After the described page dot-matrix data of acquisition, ink-jet printing apparatus obtains the respective pixel that the institute of each printed leaves in described printing comprises print content and counts, and wherein, remembers correspondence first pixel number comprising print content described in first page printed leaves.
Step 303, obtains the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves according to the pixel prestored and described first pixel number, and the first residue ink amount after the black A of display consumption.
The ink amount of required consumption during a pixel printing in the first pixel number is prestored in described ink-jet printing apparatus, thus obtain the ink amount A of printing first printed leaves consumption according to the first pixel number that ink consumption and first printed leaves of a described pixel comprise print content, and show the first residue ink amount after the ink consumption A that disappears by described digital printing apparatus.
Further, the printing that described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains comprises N number of printed leaves, therefore obtain according to the method for above-mentioned steps 302 and step 303 the ink amount that second printed leaves consumes to N printed leaves every page respectively, and measure according to the second residue ink that the display of print order correspondence has printed in the second printed leaves to N printed leaves after any one page.
Described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains the total ink consumption B of the second printed leaves to N printed leaves simultaneously, and after on the ink consumption A ink amount that one page every in the second printed leaves to N printed leaves is completed for printing post consumption being added to the first printed leaves, obtain total ink consumption A+B of a printing.
In addition, in described Digital ink jet printing equipment, also storing a predetermined threshold value, judging that described Digital ink jet printing equipment is the need of filling ink by described predetermined threshold value.
Therefore described ink-jet printing apparatus is by total ink consumption A+B of described printing and original ink amount acquisition one ink amount difference, described ink amount difference and described predetermined threshold value are compared, if described ink amount difference is less than predetermined threshold value, then display supplements ink information.
If when described difference is negative, then described ink-jet printing apparatus stops printing.
Below by concrete applied environment, a kind of method obtaining digital ink-jet printing apparatus ink use amount of the present invention is described further, specific as follows:
First, described ink comprises in the present invention: the ink of cyan ink, magenta ink, yellow ink, black ink four kinds of colors.When starting the control system of described digital printing apparatus, described control system will check whether the surplus of various ink in current system is less than threshold value, if be less than threshold value, then alarm user needs to supplement operation with money to ink, and to record in current system surplus that is blue or green, pinkish red, yellow, black four kinds of ink and be respectively T
c, T
m, T
y, T
k.
If when systems axiol-ogy is less than threshold value to black ink, when carrying out filling ink, the ink number that fills of the new installation print cartridge of black is input in described control system by user, control system is by the equipment Serial Number in the coupling number of supplementing with money, time limit effective time, after the match is successful, supplementary ink amount in the number of supplementing with money described in basis is filled ink to the black ink in described Digital ink jet printing equipment, and ink amount N will be filled
i, and described ink amount of filling is added in the residue ink amount of black ink, namely the ink amount of cyan ink, magenta ink, Yellow ink, black ink is T
c, T
m, T
y, T
k+ N
i.
Filling after ink completes, described digital printing apparatus receives arbitrary printing, and wherein, each printed leaves in described printing can be converted to page dot-matrix data by terminal, and described page dot-matrix data is made up of several ten million pixels.
Because each pixel uses 1, 2, 4, 8 binary systems represent the gray-level of its corresponding pixel points, described gray-level is the number of required ink-jet, therefore each gray-level value ink consumption that just correspondence one is fixing, if gray-level is 0, so described pixel does not need ink-jet, acquisition each page need the pixel of ink-jet and each need the gray value of inkjet pixels point after, described control system can count the cyan when pre-treatment page in a printing, magenta, yellow, the ink consumption of black four kinds of color inks, be recorded as P respectively
c, P
m, P
y, P
k.
The threshold value L of cyan ink, magenta ink, Yellow ink, black ink is prestored in described control system
c, L
m, L
y, L
k.When meeting following condition:
T
c-P
cbe more than or equal to L
c
T
m-P
mbe more than or equal to L
m
T
y-P
ybe more than or equal to L
y
T
k+ N
i-P
kbe more than or equal to L
k
Then described digital printing apparatus normal print is when pre-treatment page, if do not meet wherein arbitrary condition time, then point out user to carry out filling ink.
If T
c-P
c<0 or T
m-P
m<0 or T
y-P
y<0 or T
k+ N
i-P
k<0 then described printing equipment stops printing.
As shown in Figure 4, what the invention provides a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment fills device for ink, and this device comprises:
Dot array data acquisition module 401, for obtaining the page dot-matrix data of arbitrary printing, this printing comprises multiple printed leaves;
To count acquisition module 402, for obtain according to described page dot-matrix data the first printed leaves in described printing comprise correspondence first pixel number of print content;
Ink limit show module 403, the ink consumption of a pixel prestored for basis and the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves of described first pixel number acquisition, and the residue ink after the black A of display consumption is measured.
Described ink limit show module 403 for obtaining the ink amount that in described print page, the second printed leaves consumes to N printed leaves every page respectively, and has printed the second residue ink amount in the second printed leaves to N printed leaves after any one page according to the display of page order correspondence.
Total ink amount acquisition module 404, for obtaining the total ink consumption B of the second printed leaves to N printed leaves, and being added to described total ink amount B on the ink consumption of described first print page, obtaining total ink consumption A+B of described printing;
Ink amount determination module 405, for the ink amount difference of described total ink consumption A+B and original ink amount and predetermined threshold value are compared, if when described ink amount difference is less than or equal to predetermined threshold value, then display supplements ink information, if when described difference is negative, then stop print page.
In the embodiment of the present invention, Digital ink jet printing equipment is obtaining the dot array data of arbitrary printing, according to described dot array data to obtain in described printing the first printed leaves comprise first of the corresponding dot matrix of print content and always count, always count according to the ink consumption of counting and described first prestored and obtain the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves, and the first residue ink amount after the black A of display consumption, and then the ink amount consumed during the every one page of accurate acquisition printing, and also accurately can show the ink amount of every one page consumption.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various change and modification to the present invention and not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if these amendments of the present invention and modification belong within the scope of the claims in the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention is also intended to comprise these change and modification.