The divisional application of patent application that the present patent application is the applying date, and to be December in 2011 31 days, application number be 201110460644.5, denomination of invention is " 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 be more clearly understood that invention, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and specific embodiment, technical scheme is described in detail.
What Fig. 1 showed a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment of the present invention fills method for ink schematic diagram, specifically includes:
Step 101, what obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with newly installed print cartridge fills ink number.
So that user buys the print cartridge corresponding with equipment afterwards carries out filling ink, user can obtain one after buying Digital ink jet printing equipment and represent unique fixing equipment Serial Number that this Digital ink jet printing equipment is corresponding.
Additionally, to one should be had to fill ink number on the newly installed print cartridge of described Digital ink jet printing equipment, wherein said fill the character string that ink number is a certain length, be accomplished by filling described in the system controller software system that ink number inputs described Digital ink jet printing equipment before carrying out filling ink.
Step 102, fills the first device number in ink number, and is mated with the unique fixing equipment Serial Number of described Digital ink jet printing equipment by described first device number described in acquisition;
Described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains after filling ink number, the first device number is obtained described filling in ink number, and described first device number is mated with the unique fixing equipment Serial Number of storage in described Digital ink jet printing equipment, if mating unsuccessful, then ink failure is filled in prompting, if the match is successful, then carry out next step.
Step 103, if described first device number is with described equipment Serial Number, the match is successful, then obtain the supplementary ink amount corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment ink number from described filling, supplement ink amount according to this and described Digital ink jet printing equipment is filled ink.
So that user can obtain ink amount when filling ink, therefore number include a supplementary ink filling ink print equipment with described numeral corresponding measure at the described ink that fills, after obtaining described supplementary ink amount, and by the residue ink limit show in described Digital ink jet printing equipment after supplementary ink amount.
Additionally, in order to prevent user to described printing equipment, the print cartridge exceeding the use time is filled ink, therefore in the described effective time time limit filled and also include a newly installed print cartridge in ink number, before described Digital ink jet printing equipment is filled ink by the supplementary ink amount of basis, to compare from the described described effective time time limit filling acquisition in ink number and current time, determine whether described newly installed print cartridge exceedes effect duration, if it is newly installed print cartridge is pointed out to fill ink failure, if not then carrying out filling ink according to described supplementary ink amount.
Be illustrated in figure 2 the present invention a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment fill device for ink structure chart, described device includes:
Fill ink acquisition module 201, for obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with newly installed print cartridge fill ink number;
Matching module 202, fills the first device number in ink number described in obtaining, and is mated with the unique fixing equipment Serial Number of described Digital ink jet printing equipment by described first device number.
Fill ink module 203, if for described first device number, the match is successful with described unique fixing equipment Serial Number, then from described filling, ink number obtains the supplementary ink amount corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment, supplement ink amount according to this and described Digital ink jet printing equipment is filled ink.
Time check module 204, for described effective time time limit and current time being compared, it is determined that whether described newly installed print cartridge exceedes effect duration, if it is points out newly installed print cartridge to fill ink failure.
What the present invention provided a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment fills method for ink and device, what obtain the supplementary ink corresponding with newly installed print cartridge fills ink number, the first device number filled in ink number is mated with described equipment Serial Number, if described first device number is with described equipment Serial Number, the match is successful, then from described filling, ink number obtains the supplementary ink amount corresponding with described Digital ink jet printing equipment, supplement ink amount according to this and described Digital ink jet printing equipment is filled ink.Thus avoiding user to use different ink on same ink-jet apparatus, and then being effectively protected ink-jet printing apparatus, improve the spray printing quality of ink-jet printing apparatus, maintaining the just rights and interests of Digital ink jet printing equipment supplier.
As it is shown on figure 3, invention provides a kind of obtains the method that Digital ink jet printing equipment ink makes consumption, specifically include:
Step 301, obtains the page dot-matrix data of arbitrary printing, and this printing includes 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, obtains correspondence first pixel number of the first comprised print content of printed leaves in described printing according to described page dot-matrix data.
After obtaining described page dot-matrix data, ink-jet printing apparatus obtains the respective pixel of the comprised print content of each printed leaves in described printing and counts, and wherein, comprises correspondence first pixel number of print content described in note page 1 printed leaves.
Step 303, obtains the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves, and shows the first residue ink amount after consumption ink A according to the pixel prestored and described first pixel number.
Described ink-jet printing apparatus prestores the ink amount of required consumption during a pixel printing in the first pixel number, thus the first pixel number comprising print content according to the ink consumption of one pixel and the first printed leaves obtains the ink amount A that printing the first printed leaves consumes, and show that the first residue ink after the ink consumption A that disappears is measured by described digital printing apparatus.
Further, the printing that described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains includes N number of printed leaves, therefore obtain, according to the method for above-mentioned steps 302 and step 303, the ink amount that the second printed leaves consumes to N printed leaves each page respectively, and has printed the second printed leaves according to the display of print order correspondence and measure to the second residue ink after any one page in N printed leaves.
Described Digital ink jet printing equipment obtains second printed leaves total ink consumption B to N printed leaves simultaneously, and after the ink amount that one page every in the second printed leaves to N printed leaves is completed for printing post consumption is added on the ink consumption A of the first printed leaves, it is thus achieved that total ink consumption A+B of a printing.
It addition, also storage has a predetermined threshold value in described Digital ink jet printing equipment, judge that described Digital ink jet printing equipment is the need of filling ink by described predetermined threshold value.
Therefore described ink-jet printing apparatus obtains an ink amount difference by total ink consumption A+B and the original ink amount of described printing, described ink amount difference is compared with described predetermined threshold value, if described ink amount difference is less than predetermined threshold value, then display supplements ink information.
If described difference is negative, then described ink-jet printing apparatus stops printing.
The method of consumption is made to be described further in a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment ink that obtains of the present invention below by concrete applied environment, specific as follows:
First, described ink includes in the present invention: cyan ink, magenta ink, yellow are black, the ink of four kinds of colors of black ink.When starting the control system of described digital printing apparatus, described control system will check that in current system, whether the surplus of various ink is less than threshold value, if less than threshold value, then alarm user needs ink is supplemented with money operation, and records the surplus respectively T of four kinds of ink blue or green in current system, pinkish red, yellow, blackc、Tm、Ty、Tk。
If system detects black ink less than threshold value, when carrying out filling ink, the ink number that fills of the newly installed 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, effective time time limit, after the match is successful, black ink in described Digital ink jet printing equipment is filled by the supplementary ink amount in the number of supplementing with money described in basis ink, and ink amount N will be filledI, and described ink amount of filling is added in the residue ink amount of black ink, namely cyan ink, magenta ink, Yellow ink, the black of black ink are measured as Tc、Tm、Ty、Tk+NI。
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.
Owing to 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 just corresponding fixing ink consumption, if gray-level is 0, so described pixel does not need ink-jet, after obtaining each page and needing the pixel of ink-jet and each gray value needing inkjet pixels point, described control system can count the cyan of currently processed page in a printing, magenta, yellow, the ink consumption of four kinds of color inks of black, it is recorded as P respectivelyc、Pm、Py、Pk。
Described control system prestores the threshold value L of cyan ink, magenta ink, Yellow ink, black inkc、Lm、Ly、Lk.When meeting following condition:
Tc-PcBe more than or equal to Lc
Tm-PmBe more than or equal to Lm
Ty-PyBe more than or equal to Ly
Tk+NI-PkBe more than or equal to Lk
The then described currently processed page of digital printing apparatus normal print, if be unsatisfactory for any of which condition, then prompting user carries out filling ink.
If Tc-Pc< 0 or Tm-Pm< 0 or Ty-Py< 0 or Tk+NI-Pk< 0 described printing equipment stops printing.
As shown in Figure 4, what the present invention provided a kind of Digital ink jet printing equipment fills device for ink, and this device includes:
Dot array data acquisition module 401, for obtaining the page dot-matrix data of arbitrary printing, this printing includes multiple printed leaves;
Count acquisition module 402, for obtaining correspondence first pixel number of the first comprised print content of printed leaves in described printing according to described page dot-matrix data;
Ink limit show module 403, obtains the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves, and shows the residue ink amount after consumption ink A for the ink consumption according to the pixel prestored and described first pixel number.
Described ink limit show module 403 is for obtaining the ink amount that in described print page, the second printed leaves consumes to N printed leaves each page respectively, and has printed the second printed leaves according to the display of page order correspondence and measure to the second residue after any one page in N printed leaves is black.
Total ink amount acquisition module 404, for obtaining second printed leaves total ink consumption B to N printed leaves, and is added on the ink consumption of described first print page by described total ink amount B, it is thus achieved that 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 being compared with predetermined threshold value, if described ink amount difference is less than or equal to predetermined threshold value, then display supplements ink information, if 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, always count according in the described dot array data described printing of acquisition the first of the corresponding dot matrix of the first comprised print content of printed leaves, always count according to the ink consumption counted and described first prestored and obtain the ink consumption A of described first printed leaves, and show the first residue ink amount after consumption ink A, and then the ink of consumption is measured when obtaining the every one page of printing accurately, and also can accurately show that the ink that every one page consumes is measured.
Obviously, the present invention can be carried out various change and modification without deviating from the spirit and scope of the present invention by those skilled in the art.So, 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.