EP0589718A1 - Méthode d'alignement de plumes - Google Patents

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EP0589718A1
EP0589718A1 EP93307586A EP93307586A EP0589718A1 EP 0589718 A1 EP0589718 A1 EP 0589718A1 EP 93307586 A EP93307586 A EP 93307586A EP 93307586 A EP93307586 A EP 93307586A EP 0589718 A1 EP0589718 A1 EP 0589718A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/21—Ink jet for multi-colour printing
    • B41J2/2132—Print quality control characterised by dot disposition, e.g. for reducing white stripes or banding
    • B41J2/2135—Alignment of dots
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/34—Bodily-changeable print heads or carriages

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  • the present invention relates generally to plural pen alignment solutions for ink-jet printers. More particularly, the invention concerns such method and apparatus that provide a low-cost two pen alignment solution that user-interactively, semi-automatically compensates for misalignments between field replaceable monochrome, e.g. black, and tri-color, e.g. magenta, cyan and yellow, pens within an ink-jet printhead carriage.
  • field replaceable monochrome e.g. black
  • tri-color e.g. magenta, cyan and yellow
  • the invented plural pen alignment solution involves user interaction with automatic pen alignment firmware to select the best alignment among a number of illustratively printed options.
  • the alignment algorithm is invoked by a keystroke on the ink-jet printer's control panel, typically when a new pen is installed in the printer's carriage.
  • the printer prints stored horizontal and vertical alignment test patterns that illustrate a range of alignment options including one each that should be optimal.
  • the printer also prints a stored illustration of the printer's control panel keys that may be struck to make selected alignments. The user simply examines the printout, selects desired alignments and strikes the indicated key on the panel.
  • Horizontal alignments are made in firmware by shifting the timing between nozzle firings in 300 dots per inch (300 dpi) increments.
  • Vertical alignments are made in firmware by shifting the pixel image, i.e. selecting different nozzles for firing, also at 300 dpi resolution.
  • the printer prints a page of alignment patterns illustrating the chosen alignments, which are stored in non-volatile memory.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a horizontal alignment test pattern that is printed in accordance with the preferred plural pen alignment solution.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a pictorial representation of a keypad that is printed in accordance with the invented solution.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a vertical alignment test pattern that is printed in accordance with the preferred solution.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a confirmation alignment pattern that is printed in accordance with the preferred solution.
  • Fig. 5 shows the physical layouts of a monochrome and a tricolor ink-jet pen's orifices.
  • Fig. 1 shows plural instances of superposed first and second horizontal alignment patterns that are printed by a controller within an ink-jet printer as part of the invented plural-pen alignment method.
  • the patterns will be understood to represent plural instances of a first stored alignment pattern that are in printed predefined positions on a page utilizing a first pen, e.g. a black pen, which first pattern labeled K includes a collinear set of spaced line segments.
  • first pen e.g. a black pen
  • first pattern labeled K includes a collinear set of spaced line segments.
  • the plural instances themselves are preferably laterally, evenly spaced.
  • Corresponding plural instances of a second stored alignment pattern are printed utilizing a second pen, e.g.
  • magenta pen which second pattern labeled M includes a collinear set of spaced line segments that generally or nominally are in alignment with, i.e. collinear with, and interpose, the spaced line segments of the first pattern.
  • Each of the plural instances of superposed first and second patterns includes and is identified by one or more pattern identifiers, or printed indicia, e.g. the printed numbers 1 through 7 printed adjacent the designated superposed patterns. As will be seen by reference to Fig. 2, such indicia correspond with user selectable keys on a keypad that part of the ink-jet printer's control panel.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates that the plural instances of second alignment pattern M are printed in a range of predefined positions relative to the first pattern instances with a predefined offset, or horizontal shift, of pattern M between successive instances, e.g. the second pattern starts to the left of first pattern K in instance 1 and progressively shifts to the right so that it end to the right of first pattern K in instance 7.
  • the successive shifts may be seen to be transverse, and preferably perpendicular, to axes defined by the collinear segments of second alignment pattern M.
  • the predefined relative positions may be seen nominally to include at least one of the positions of the first pattern, e.g. the superposed patterns labeled 4 in Fig. 1 nominally are aligned.
  • Superposed first and second patterns K, M may be understood to define a number of inter-pen alignment options that are useful to the user in selecting a desired alignment, for example, after installing a new pen into the printer's printhead carriage.
  • the offsets in Fig. 1 are greatly exaggerated to render them more easily discernable and understandable.
  • the horizontal offsets preferably provide a range of approximately ⁇ 3 dots at 300 dpi.
  • the offset of the middle horizontal alignment pattern in Fig. 1 typically would not exhibit the intentionally exaggerated offset, but instead would exhibit perfect or near-perfect alignment between the first and second superposed patterns, thereby achieving the purpose of the invented method and apparatus.
  • a pictorial representation of the printer's control console keypad is shown.
  • Such a pictorial representation preferably is printed with, and most preferably on the same page as are, the plural instances of superposed alignment patterns K, M, when the invented alignment process is invoked.
  • the keypad representation includes selected keys of the keypad identified by, thus visually to promote an association with, printed indicia corresponding with the printed, superposed patterns-adjacent, identifying indicia shown in Fig. 1 to identify the plural superposed alignment pattern instances that represent inter-pen alignment options.
  • the printed key indicia are the numbers 1 through 7 within circles indicating by the arrows the corresponding keys.
  • any printed symbol may be used as a pattern identifier so long as there is an associable selection identifier having a corresponding printed symbol in the pictorial representation.
  • letters may be used instead of numbers, or graphic symbols may be used instead of alphanumeric symbols.
  • the pattern instances may be printed within the corresponding keys of the pictorial representation, as a printed symbol recognizable to the user as indicating which key selection will result in which alignment selection.
  • color code the keys of the pictorial representation, or even the alignment patterns themselves e.g. using various primitive color combinations to print the second alignment patterns
  • first and second alignment patterns 1 through 7 of Fig. 1 and the pictorial representation of the keypad of Fig. 2 are printed on a page of printer paper, preferably along with suitable printed instructions to the user (not shown) to make a selection of the alignment option that is seen to be most desirable, the user inputs a selected key from the keypad by any suitable manual desired alignment selection means, e.g. by depressing the key on the printer's keypad that corresponds with the desired alignment.
  • manual selection means include plural selection identifiers associable with the plural pattern identifiers.
  • the printer's controller reads the keyed input from the user, and correlates the key positional information illustrated in Fig. 2 with the alignment pattern positional information illustrated in Fig. 1.
  • the controller Responsive to the key selection by the user, stores in a preferably non-volatile memory location the chosen alignment criteria, or information regarding the predefined offset corresponding with the user-inputted key. For example, if the user selects key 4, then the controller stores in memory the predefined offset information corresponding with the printed second alignment pattern of instance 4 of Fig. 1. Thereafter, i.e. after the alignment procedure is complete, the printer's controller utilizes this stored predefined offset corresponding with the second pen for all printing that is destined therefor.
  • the result is semi-automatic, user-interactive inter-pen alignment by which the user is able to participate in the selection of the inter-pen alignment or registration. If the tri-color pen is placed in the printer's carriage at a slight lateral offset from the already installed black pen, i.e. either too close to or too far from the black pen, nevertheless near perfect inter-pen alignment can be had when ink-jet printing because the controller, with the user's help, adjusts the timing of its horizontal ink-jet firing sequences as between the black and the tri-color pen so that extremely close alignment or registration in the printed output is maintained. It will be appreciated that horizontal alignment only is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, whereas preferably vertical alignment also is provided.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a variation on the superposed first and second alignment patterns shown in Fig. 1 that facilitates vertical, in addition to horizontal, inter-pen alignment.
  • Fig. 3 which represents a second page of printed output of the inter-pen alignment method
  • plural instances of a first stored alignment pattern are printed utilizing a first pen, e.g. a black pen, with the first pattern again including a set of collinear, spaced line segments.
  • plural instances of a second stored alignment pattern are printed utilizing a second pen, with the second pattern including a set of collinear spaced line segments nominally collinear with and interposing the spaced line segments of the first pattern, and with a predefined offset of the second pattern relative to the first between the successive instances of the first.
  • first patterns labeled K
  • second patterns labeled M
  • each superposed pattern instance is identified by one or more printed indicia such as numbers 1 through 7.
  • the superposed collinear line segments extend along horizontal axes (perpendicular with those printed during the horizontal alignment phase), or parallel with the printhead's scan axis.
  • the superposed patterns represent a predefined range of vertical alignment options.
  • the keyboard representation of Fig. 2 is printed, preferably on the same page as the vertical alignment patterns. The user is instructed as before to choose the desired alignment pattern instance by depressing the correspondingly numbered key on the printer's operator console keypad.
  • information regarding the predefined offset corresponding with the selected pattern instance is stored in preferably non-volatile memory and thereafter utilized for printing by the second pen, e.g. the tri-color pen that printed the magenta segments (labeled M in Fig. 3).
  • the second pen e.g. the tri-color pen that printed the magenta segments (labeled M in Fig. 3).
  • vertical alignment in accordance with the preferred method of the invention is accomplished by pixel or orifice shifting to-be-printed images prior to printing, which will be described by reference to Fig. 5.
  • first and second alignment patterns include both vertical and horizontal line segments, thereby defining respectively an array of horizontal and vertical inter-pen alignment options and providing respectively for a horizontal and a vertical alignment user selection.
  • FIG. 4 shows a page that is printed by the printer's controller after the user has made desired horizontal and vertical alignment selections.
  • a box and a cross are printed in accordance with the preferred method, again with collinear spaced line segments being printed by the first pen and with interposing and now more accurately aligned and collinear spaced line segments printed by the second pen.
  • K for black
  • M for magenta
  • the controller preferably prints an alignment pattern based thereon as confirmation of the user's selection.
  • the alignment pattern does not represent the desired horizontal and vertical alignment, the user may simply repeat the above-described alignment process until a desired alignment, as indicated by the confirmation printout, is achieved.
  • the successive predefined horizontal and vertical offsets illustrated, respectively, in Figs. 1 and 3 define an offset range that has been predetermined to correspond to a range of possible inter-pen alignments within the printhead carriage, as determined by analyzing printer manufacturing tolerances.
  • manufacturing tolerances may be higher, and thus the ink-jet printer cost may be lower, because of the inter-pen alignment method of the invention.
  • the preferred method is user-interactive, semi-automatic, and implemented in firmware executed by the printer's existing controller, its provision imposes negligible cost on the purchaser and user of the printer. It is believed that ink-jet printer users are eager to participate in the inter-pen alignment process, which is infrequently required and which builds user confidence in high print quality.
  • Fig. 5 shows the two-pen ink-jet printer printhead configuration including the nozzle or orifice layout for each pen (with greatly exaggerated inter-orifice spacing, for the sake of clarity).
  • the range over which successive horizontal and vertical second alignment patterns are printed with offsets or positions, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3, are defined to a great extent by the geometries of the printhead's pens and the carriage that fixedly locates them relative to one another.
  • the pens necessarily must be only temporarily fixedly captured within the printhead carriage. This need creates the possibility of inter-pen misalignment or mispositioning over a finite, predefined range best described as a lateral separation variance of the nominal separation of the "home" position orifices of the individual pens.
  • the pens as shown are side by side in the printer's carriage, in nominally fixed, absolute and relative positions in the horizontal and vertical axes. Because their fixed positions within the carriage are only nominally determinable, due to the relatively high manufacturing tolerances that make replacement possible, the pens may be described as being positioned relative to one another within a predefined vertical and horizontal range. With this range defined, it is a simple matter to predefine the range of offsets represented by the succession of plural instances of relatively shifted second alignment patterns associated with the tri-color pen the output of which is labeled M in Figs. 1 and 3 so that it is associable with the range of pen alignment or position possibilities.
  • the tri-color pen on the right of Fig. 5 will be understood to represent a "paper's eye” view of the pen. The same is true for the black pen shown on the left of Fig. 5.
  • the two pens' home orifices nominally are separated center to center by approximately 34 millimeters (34 mm).
  • the tricolor pen has three identical but differently positioned sets of bi-line orifices, one for each of the magenta, cyan and yellow ink reservoirs contained therein.
  • the black pen appears from Fig. 5 to have a singular oval set of orifices, but in fact, it too has two columns of operative orifices, generally as described above regarding the tri-color pen (the oval-closing end orifices are non-printing).
  • the printhead carriage containing the pens passes from right to left in Fig. 5, or perpendicularly to the long axes of the columnar, bi-line orifice sets.
  • Offsets are accomplished by simply bit shifting, or pixel shifting, the to-be-printed images by up to ⁇ 3 pixels prior to printing.
  • the alignment patterns are so created, as are normal images printed after a desired, user-selected offset is inputted during vertical alignment.
  • horizontal alignment is accomplished by time shifting, i.e. advancing or retarding, the firing of the ink jets.
  • time shifting straightforwardly is performed by the controller executing firmware resident in a read-only memory (ROM) therein.
  • the invented plural pen alignment solution is generally applicable to pen alignment problems that heretofore have been solved in complicated and expensive ways.
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