EP0927635A2 - Druckkopf-Substrat, Druckkopf mit Benützung desselben und Druckvorrichtung - Google Patents

Druckkopf-Substrat, Druckkopf mit Benützung desselben und Druckvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0927635A2
EP0927635A2 EP99200744A EP99200744A EP0927635A2 EP 0927635 A2 EP0927635 A2 EP 0927635A2 EP 99200744 A EP99200744 A EP 99200744A EP 99200744 A EP99200744 A EP 99200744A EP 0927635 A2 EP0927635 A2 EP 0927635A2
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Yoshiyuki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Imanaka
Tatsuo C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Furukawa
Kimiyuki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Hayasaki
Hiroyuki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Maru
Masaaki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Izumida
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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
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    • 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
    • B41J2/015—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process
    • B41J2/04—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
    • B41J2/045—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
    • B41J2/04501—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits
    • B41J2/04541—Specific driving circuit
    • 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
    • B41J2/015—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process
    • B41J2/04—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
    • B41J2/045—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
    • B41J2/04501—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits
    • B41J2/04543—Block driving
    • 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
    • B41J2/015—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process
    • B41J2/04—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
    • B41J2/045—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
    • B41J2/04501—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits
    • B41J2/04573—Timing; Delays
    • 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
    • B41J2/015—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process
    • B41J2/04—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
    • B41J2/045—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
    • B41J2/04501—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits
    • B41J2/0458—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits controlling heads based on heating elements forming bubbles

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  • the present invention relates to an ink jet head substrate which is effective for stable printing without causing malfunction against the noise, an ink jet head using said substrate, and an ink jet printing apparatus such as a printer using said head.
  • An ink jet recording method (liquid jet recording method) is extremely superior in that the noise produced during operation is as little as to be ignorable, the high speed printing is enabled, and the so-called plain paper can be used for printing without need of a special treatment of fixing, and has become a main stream of the printing method.
  • a liquid jet recording method as described in, for example, Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 54-5l837 and Deutsche Offenlegungshrift No. 2843064 has a distinct feature in a respect that the motive force for discharging liquid droplets is obtained by applying thermal energy to the liquid, as opposed to other liquid jet recording methods, for example, a method of discharging liquid droplets by applying mechanical pressure.
  • the recording method as disclosed in the above publications is characterized in that the liquid subjected to heat energy causes a state change with a rapid increase in volume to discharge liquid droplets through orifices at the top end of the ink jet head owing to action force based on said state change, and attach them to the recording medium to effect the recording.
  • the liquid jet recording method as disclosed in Deutsche Offenlegungshrift No. 2843064 has the features that it is not only quite effectively applicable to a so-called drop-on-demand recording method, but also can provide the image with high resolution and quality at high rate because the ink jet head with a high density arrangement of discharge orifices and of the full-line type can be easily embodied.
  • the ink jet head applied to the above recording method comprises a liquid discharge portion having discharge orifices provided to discharge the liquid and liquid channels communicating to said discharge orifices, each having as its part a heat acting portion where heat energy for discharging liquid droplets is applied to the liquid, the liquid discharge portion being constituted of a head substrate (heater board) having electricity-heat converters (heating elements) as means for generating heat energy and a ceiling plate having grooves for forming discharge orifices and liquid channels.
  • the head substrate has been constructed in a manner not only to have a plurality of heating elements on a substrate, but also provide, within the same substrate, respective heating element drivers, a shift register to transmit serially input image data to the respective drivers in parallel and having the same number of bits as that heating elements, and a latch circuit for temporarily storing data output from the shift register.
  • Fig. 4 shows an example of a conventional circuit configuration on the substrate.
  • 400 is a substrate
  • 401 is a heating element
  • 402 is a power transistor
  • 403 is a latch circuit
  • 404 is a shift register.
  • a time-division driving block selecting logic 405 such as a decoder provided to divide a group of heating elements into blocks each consisting of a predetermined number of elements and make the division driving of each block as a unit
  • the input signals include those for the clock of operating the shift register, the image data input of receiving image data in serial, the latch clock of holding data in the latch circuit, the block enable of block selection, the drive pulse (heat pulse) width input of controlling externally the ON time of the power transistor, i.e., the time for driving the heating elements, a logic circuit drive power source (5V), GND, and a heating element drive power source, these signals being input via pads 407, 408, 409, 4l0, 4ll, 4l2, 4l3 and 4l4 on the substrate, respectively.
  • a drive sequence includes first transmitting image data from the printer main device in synchronism with the clock and serially to the substrate within the head, which data is read by the shift register 404 within the substrate.
  • the read data is temporarily stored in the latch circuit 403 to make the block selection in time division until next image data is held in the latch circuit.
  • the block selection if a pulse is input from the heat pulse 4ll, the block selection is performed, and if image data is on, one or more power transistors 402 are turned on; and said block selection is made, and if image data is on, current is flowed through one or more heating elements to effect the driving.
  • the integration of the logic circuit such as a driver, a shift register, a latch, etc. into the head substrate has recently progressed, but the current pulse flowing through each heating element reaches l00 to 200 mA instantaneously, and for example, if the heating elements turning on at the same time are eight elements, a current pulse of about l to l.5A will flow through the heating element drive power source line and the GND line.
  • the logic circuit on the head substrate may cause malfunction due to the noise with inductive coupling produced in the flexible wiring from the printer main device to the ink jet head or the wiring within the ink jet head.
  • the clock frequency of the ink jet head is roughly at most several MHz, and if the logic power source voltage is about 5V, there is only a small possibility of having effect on the operation, in which the former inductive noise will have more effect to cause the malfunction.
  • the clock or the latch clock within the head substrate malfunctions due to the noise, there is a high possibility that the image data within the head substrate is completely different from the data transmitted from the printer main device, significantly having detrimental effect on the print quality.
  • One example is to reduce the number of heating elements turned on simultaneously by increasing the number of blocks to restrain the magnitude of the current pulse.
  • the interval of holding data by the latch circuit from one time to the next, that is, the discharge period is shortened, so that the time allocated to each block is shortened by the increased number of blocks, and there is a risk that sufficient energy to discharge the ink may not be obtained.
  • Another resolution is also conceived which involves providing a capacitor for the current supply on or around a carriage itself for the printer main device supporting the ink jet head to reduce the inductive noise on the flexible substrate, or adding a noise countermeasure component to prevent malfunction, and in practice, there are many cases of adopting such a measure in the carriage portion for the ink jet printer. In such a case, however, the larger size of the carriage portion with this measure can not be avoided, resulting in a problem that the printer main device can not be reduced in size and the cost for the countermeasure component may be increased.
  • the above problem may be observed not only in an ink jet head with the heating elements arranged at high density and capable of attaining the high speed printing, but also other print heads, for example, a thermal head having heating elements arranged lengthwise or a print head having recording elements driven by the driving pulse arranged, which may cause malfunction due to the noise.
  • the present invention has been achieved in the light of the aforementioned problems, and its objective is to resolve the noise problem with the ink in an ink jet head without changing the substrate manufacturing process for the ink jet head, that is, increasing the cost on the manufacture, and without needs of disposing a specific noise countermeasure component on the side of the printer main device, or making the design change for the countermeasure.
  • the present invention is a print head substrate having a plurality of recording elements, a driver for driving said recording elements in accordance with the image data, an input portion for pulse width definition signal to define the width of pulse to be applied to said recording elements, and a block selection portion for dividing said plurality of recording elements into blocks each consisting of a predetermined number of elements and effecting time-division driving of each block as a unit, which are formed on a substrate, characterized in that an integration circuit is provided in a line of said pulse width definition signal to shift the timing of said driving pulse to be applied to recording elements within a block selected by said block selection portion.
  • a shift register for outputting serially input image data in parallel format and a latch circuit for temporarily storing data output from said shift register are provided on said substrate, and said heating elements, said driver, said input portion, said block selection portion, said shift register, and said latch circuit are formed on said substrate through a film formation process, said integration circuit having the form of a CR integration circuit constituted of a resistive component of a diffusion layer used in the film configuration of said driver, and a capacitive component utilizing a gate oxide film used in the film configuration of a drive control logic system including said shift register and said latch circuit, said CR integration circuit being formed concurrently in said film formation process.
  • the present invention is a print head substrate having, a plurality of recording elements, a driver for driving said plurality of recording elements in accordance with the image data, a shift register for outputting serially input image data in parallel format, and a latch circuit for temporarily storing data output from said shift register, which are formed on a substrate, characterized in that a hysteresis circuit is formed on an input portion for the signal for a drive control logic system including said shift register and said latch circuit drive input signal so that the input data threshold value may be different depending on whether the signal is rising or falling.
  • said recording elements, said driver, said shift register, and said latch circuit are formed on said substrate through a film formation process
  • said hysteresis circuit has the form of a resistor made of a resistive component of a diffusion layer used in the film configuration of said driver, said resistor being formed concurrently in said film formation process.
  • both said integration circuit and said hysteresis circuit can be provided, and further can be formed concurrently in said film formation process.
  • the present invention is characterized in that the print head substrate comprises said substrate and a member, in combination with said substrate, for forming liquid channels in connection with said heating elements and ink discharge orifices at one end of said liquid channels, and is applicable to the ink jet head.
  • the present invention is characterized in that said recording elements are heating elements for generating heat energy.
  • the present invention provides a printing apparatus for performing the printing on the recording medium using said print head.
  • a hysteresis circuit on the input portion and a CR integration circuit for input pulse width signal (heat pulse) are formed, along with recording elements (heating elements) and components for a logic discharge control circuit such as a driver, a shift register and so on, whereby the noise produced can be suppressed against the increased number of discharge orifices which is indispensable for the high speed printing, and the increased number of recording elements to be driven simultaneously which is associated with the high density packaging, and the stable operation can be achieved because of the increased margin for the noise.
  • the special noise countermeasure for the carriage portion of the main device or the ink jet head itself which is effective to realize the lower cost and the reduced size of the apparatus.
  • the noise problem associated with the ink jet recording head can be resolved without needs of changing the conventional substrate manufacturing process, that is, increasing the cost on the manufacture, and providing the noise countermeasure component on the printing apparatus main device, the flexible substrate, or the carriage, or making the design change of the conventional drive sequence or circuit for the countermeasure on the side of the printing apparatus main device.
  • Fig. l is an example of the circuit configuration of an ink jet head substrate according to the present invention.
  • 101 is a circuit for providing a hysteresis in the input threshold value.
  • buffer portions 202 used in a conventional head substrate logic system input portion shown in Fig. 2A
  • additional resistors 201 connected thereto as shown in Fig. 2B are provided. This can be simply constructed by utilizing a resistive component of a diffusion layer used in the film configuration of a driver.
  • the ratio of the resistance R1 to R2 of resistor 201 is 1 to 2.5.
  • the threshold value for the conventional signal which serves as a judgment criterion between the high level and the low level was 2.5V irrespective of whether rising (from LOW to HIGH) or falling (from HIGH to LOW), whereas in this embodiment, the threshold value is 3.5V in the rising period and l.5V in the falling period. That is, there is less possibility that the noise level exceeds the threshold value. Since the frequency of the signal to be input into the ink jet head substrate is not high, as described in a section of SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION, and there is no problem with the delay in response due to hysteresis provided in the input, there is a great effect of preventing malfunction with the configuration as in this embodiment.
  • the width of hysteresis can be changed by varying the ratio of the resistance Rl to R2 of resistor 20l, and it is desirable to have an appropriate resistance ratio in view of the variation in the resistive component of the diffusion layer.
  • l02 is a CR integration circuit constituted of three parts including a buffer, a resistive component of diffusion layer used in the film configuration of a driver 402 and a capacitive component utilizing a gate oxide film used in the film configuration of a logic control circuit, which integration circuit is provided in a heat pulse signal line corresponding to elements as many as the number of elements contained in the same block subtracted by l.
  • the signal is transmitted in parallel and simultaneously to all the elements, whereas in this embodiment, because of one block consisting of four elements, three CR integration circuits are provided to make four types of line l03, and the wiring is made so that the time for passing heat pulse to four elements that are turned on simultaneously by a block selection circuit 405 is in practice shifted by l0 to 20 nsec between each element, and preferably l0 to 200 nsec.
  • Fig. 3 for the conventional example (on the left side in the figure) and this embodiment (on the right side in the figure), there are shown the voltage waveform in which heat pulse is applied to each of four elements A, B, C, D, and the time at which it exceeds the threshold value, the current pulse waveform passing through the line of heating element drive power source and GND at that time, and the voltage waveform of the logic system signal subjected to inductive noise produced by its current pulse for two cases wherein the practical level of its logic system signal is LOW (0V) and HIGH (5V) (for the comparison of the hysteresis circuit l0l between the conventional example and this embodiment).
  • heat pulse is passed to four elements A, B, C, D at the same time, and will simultaneously exceed the threshold value to turn on the power transistor 402, so that current starts to flow at once, that is, the variation of current per unit time in the rising portion is four times that when one heating element 40l is turned on, thereby raising the noise level produced in the logic system signal line by that amount.
  • the threshold value of the logic system signal line is exceeded to cause a malfunction and transform the image data.
  • the waveform in which the heat pulse of heating element A is integrated becomes a heat pulse of heating element B, as will be clear from the heat pulse waveform of Fig. 3, and the time at which the heating element B turns on after the heat pulse of heating element B practically exceeds the threshold value is delayed from the time for heating element A to turn on.
  • the current pulse flowing through the heating element drive power source line is stepwise in accordance with the previous delay, as shown in Fig. 3. That is, the variation of current per unit time is not greatly different from that in which one heating element is turned on, so that the noise level is significantly reduced.
  • the above hysteresis circuit l0l and the CR integration circuit l02 can be manufactured at the same time by forming the drive control logic system including the heating elements, the driver, the shift register, and the latch circuit, the pulse width input portion 4ll and the block selection circuit 405 on the substrate through the film formation process, and without changing the process of manufacturing the head substrate 400. Accordingly, because there is no need of changing greatly the number of pads in the input portion of the substrate or other circuit configuration within the substrate, the cost of the substrate itself is hardly increased. Also, since the noise can be suppressed within the head without need of attaching any parts such as a condenser for the countermeasure to the carriage portion, the apparatus main body can be embodied at lower cost and in smaller size.
  • a liquid channel wall member 50l to form liquid channels 505 communicating to a plurality of discharge orifices 500 and a ceiling plate 502 having an ink supply port 503 are mounted to have a recording head of the ink jet recording system, as shown in Fig. 5.
  • the ink supplied through the ink supply port 503 is reserved in a common liquid chamber 504 provided inside, from which the ink is supplied to each liquid channel 505, and by driving heating elements 506 on the substrate 400 in this state, the ink is discharged from discharge orifices.
  • an ink jet recording apparatus capable of high speed and high image quality recording can be obtained.
  • FIG. 6 is an external perspective view showing an example of the ink jet recording apparatus 600 to which the present invention is applied.
  • a recording head 5l0 is mounted on a carriage 602 engaging a helical groove 62l of a lead screw 604 rotating via driving force transmission gears 602, 603, linked with the forward or backward rotation of a drive motor 60l, and reciprocated in the directions of the arrows a, b along a guide 6l9, together with the carriage 620, by the motive power of said driving motor 60l.
  • 607, 608 are photo-couplers which are home position detecting means to switch the rotation direction of the drive motor 60l by confirming a lever 609 of the carriage 620 residing in this range.
  • 6l0 is a support member for supporting a cap member 6ll for capping the entire surface of the recording head 6l0
  • 6l2 is suction means for sucking the ink inside the cap member 6ll to effect the suction recovery of the recording head 5l0 via an opening 6l3 within the cap.
  • 6l4 is a cleaning blade
  • 6l5 is a moving member for enabling this blade to move in forward and backward directions, these being supported on a main body support plate 6l6.
  • 6l7 is a lever to start the suction of the suction recovery operation, which is moved along with the movement of a cam 6l8 in engagement with the carriage 620, the driving force from the drive motor 6l0 being controlled for the movement by well-known transmission means such as a clutch switch.
  • a print control unit for applying a signal to the heating elements 506 provided on the recording head 5l0 or governing the drive control of each mechanism as above described is provided on the side of the apparatus main body (not shown).
  • the ink jet recording apparatus 600 performs the recording on a recording sheet P conveyed on the platen 606 by the recording medium feeding device, while the recording head 5l0 is reciprocating over the entire width of the recording sheet P, in which the high precision and high speed recording can be made because the recording head 5l0 is manufactured by the method as previously described.
  • the substrate is adopted for the recording head of the ink jet system, it will be understood that the substrate according to the present invention is also applicable to the thermal head substrate.
  • the present invention brings about excellent effects particularly in a recording head or a recording device of the system of comprising means for generating heat energy (e.g., electricity-heat converter or laser beam) as the energy to be used for the ink discharge and causing state changes of the ink due to the heat energy among the various ink jet recording systems.
  • heat energy e.g., electricity-heat converter or laser beam
  • the recording with higher density and higher resolution can be obtained.
  • the constitution of the recording head in addition to the combination of the discharging orifice, liquid channel, and electricity-heat converter (linear liquid channel or right-angled liquid channel) as disclosed in the above-mentioned respective specifications, the constitution by use of U.S. Patents 4,558,333 or 4,459,600 disclosing the constitution having the heat acting portion arranged in the flexed region is also included in the present invention.
  • the present invention can be also effectively made the constitution as disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 59-l23670 which discloses the constitution using a slit common to a plurality of electricity-heat converters as the discharging portion of the electricity-heat converter or Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 59-l3846l which discloses the constitution having the opening for absorbing pressure wave of heat energy correspondent to the discharging portion. That is, the present invention allows the secure and efficient recording to be effected in whatever form of the recording head.
  • the present invention is effectively applicable to the recording head of the full line type having a length corresponding to the maximum width of a recording medium which can be recorded by the recording device.
  • a recording head either the constitution which satisfies its length by a combination of a plurality of recording heads or the constitution as one recording head integrally formed may be used.
  • the present invention is effective for a recording head fixed to the main device, a recording head of the freely exchangeable chip type which enables electrical connection to the main device or supply of ink from the main device by being mounted on the main device, or a recording head of the cartridge type having an ink tank integrally provided on the recording head itself.
  • a discharge recovery means for the recording head, a preliminary auxiliary means, etc., provided as the constitution of the recording device of the present invention is preferable, because the effect of the present invention can be further stabilized.
  • Specific examples of these may include, for the recording head, capping means, cleaning means, pressurization or suction means, electricity-heat converters or another type of heating elements, or preliminary heating means according to a combination of these, and predischarging means which performs discharging separate from recording.
  • the present invention is effective to a single recording head provided corresponding to the monocolor ink or a plurality of recording heads corresponding to a plurality of inks having different recording colors or densities, for example. That is, as the recording mode of the recording device, the present invention is extremely effective for not only the recording mode only of a primary color such as black, etc., but also a device equipped with at least one of plural different colors or full color by color mixing, whether the recording head may be either integrally constituted or combined in plural number.
  • the ink is considered as the liquid in the embodiment as above described, other inks may be also usable which are solid below room temperature and will soften or liquefy at or above room temperature, or liquefy when a recording signal used is issued as it is common with the ink jet device to control the viscosity of ink to be maintained within a certain range of the stable discharge by adjusting the temperature of ink in a range from 30°C to 70°C.
  • the ink which will stiffen in the shelf state and liquefy by heating may be usable.
  • the use of the ink having a property of liquefying only with the application of heat energy such as those liquefying with the application of heat energy in accordance with a recording signal so that liquid ink is discharged, or may be solidifying prior to reaching a recording medium, is also applicable in the present invention.
  • the ink may be held as liquid or solid in recesses or through holes of a porous sheet, which is placed opposed to electricity-heat converters, as described in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 54-56847 or No. 60-7l260.
  • the most effective method for the inks as above described in the present invention is based on the film boiling.
  • the ink jet recording apparatus may be used as an image output terminal in an information processing equipment such as a computer, a copying machine in combination with a reader, or a facsimile terminal equipment having the transmission and reception feature.
  • an information processing equipment such as a computer, a copying machine in combination with a reader, or a facsimile terminal equipment having the transmission and reception feature.
  • a hysteresis circuit on the input portion and a CR integration circuit for an input pulse width signal (heat pulse), together with recording elements and components for a logic discharge control circuit such as a driver, a shift register and so on, whereby the noise produced by the increased number of discharge orifices which is indispensable for the high speed printing, and the increased number of recording elements to be driven simultaneously which is associated with the high density packaging can be suppressed, and the stable operation can be achieved owing to the increased margin for the noise. Accordingly, there is no need of providing the special noise countermeasure for the carriage portion of the main device or the ink jet head itself, which is effective to realize the recording apparatus of the lower cost and smaller size.

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