EP1201449A2 - System und Verfahren zur Verbesserung der Randqualität für den Tintenstrahldruck - Google Patents
System und Verfahren zur Verbesserung der Randqualität für den Tintenstrahldruck Download PDFInfo
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- EP1201449A2 EP1201449A2 EP01309026A EP01309026A EP1201449A2 EP 1201449 A2 EP1201449 A2 EP 1201449A2 EP 01309026 A EP01309026 A EP 01309026A EP 01309026 A EP01309026 A EP 01309026A EP 1201449 A2 EP1201449 A2 EP 1201449A2
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- printhead
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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
- B41J2/015—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
- B41J2/04505—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits aiming at correcting alignment
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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
- B41J2/015—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
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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
- B41J2/015—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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- 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
- B41J2202/00—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet or thermal heads
- B41J2202/01—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet heads
- B41J2202/17—Readable information on the head
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- the small drops of ink are ejected from the nozzles through orifices or nozzles by rapidly heating a small volume of ink located in vaporization chambers with small electric heaters, such as small thin film resistors.
- small electric heaters such as small thin film resistors.
- the small thin film resistors are usually located adjacent the vaporization chambers. Heating the ink causes the ink to vaporize and be ejected from the orifices.
- FIG. 2 is a high level flow diagram illustrating the printhead and printing system of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 shows for illustrative purposes only a perspective view of an exemplary print cartridge incorporating the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a detailed flow diagram illustrating setup and use of the printhead of the present invention.
- the thermal head assembly 402 can be a flexible material commonly referred to as a Tape Automated Bonding (TAB) assembly and can contain a processing driver head 410 (an example of processing driver head 120 of FIG. 1) and interconnect contact pads 412.
- the interconnect contact pads 412 are suitably secured to the print cartridge 400, for example, by an adhesive material.
- the contact pads 408 align with and electrically contact electrodes (not shown) on carriage 334 of FIG. 3.
- the systematic defects can be reduced when the odd and even nozzle alignment is intentionally misaligned or offset by a predetermined amount, such as 1/600 of an inch. Text and lines printed with the predetermined amount (such as 1/600 inch offset) have cleaner edges than when printed with perfect odd/even alignment, as shown in FIG 6B. This approach works with both single pass and multipass printmodes.
- the correction scheme of the present invention can be used as an intentional offset to correct a variety of scan axis defects.
- Another example is using intentional bi-directional alignment offset to compensate for the effects of low velocity tails in bi-directional printmodes.
- FIG. 8 shows a simulated ink jet printing pattern for bi-directional print modes. The first 2 columns of dots represent one pass printing in the left-to-right and right-to-left scan directions. In each case, the main drop is followed by a low velocity tail that lands "downstream" from the main drop.
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US4313684A (en) | 1979-04-02 | 1982-02-02 | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | Recording apparatus |
US4490728A (en) | 1981-08-14 | 1984-12-25 | Hewlett-Packard Company | Thermal ink jet printer |
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US6842186B2 (en) | 2001-05-30 | 2005-01-11 | Polaroid Corporation | High speed photo-printing apparatus |
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