EP1238814A1 - Imprimante à jet d'encre équipée pour aligner ses têtes d'impression - Google Patents

Imprimante à jet d'encre équipée pour aligner ses têtes d'impression Download PDF

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EP1238814A1
EP1238814A1 EP02100131A EP02100131A EP1238814A1 EP 1238814 A1 EP1238814 A1 EP 1238814A1 EP 02100131 A EP02100131 A EP 02100131A EP 02100131 A EP02100131 A EP 02100131A EP 1238814 A1 EP1238814 A1 EP 1238814A1
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Hilbrand Vanden Wyngaert
Bart Verhoest
Dirk De Ruijter
Bart Verlinden
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Agfa Gevaert NV
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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
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/001—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface
    • B41J25/005—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface for serial printing movements superimposed to character- or line-spacing movements
    • 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
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/145—Arrangement thereof
    • B41J2/155—Arrangement thereof for line printing
    • 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
    • B41J2/485—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes
    • B41J2/505—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements
    • B41J2/515—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements line printer type
    • 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
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J29/38—Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
    • B41J29/393—Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine ; Controlling or analysing mechanical parameters involving printing of test patterns

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EP20020100131 2001-03-08 2002-02-13 Imprimante à jet d'encre équipée pour aligner ses têtes d'impression Expired - Lifetime EP1238814B1 (fr)

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EP20020100131 EP1238814B1 (fr) 2001-03-08 2002-02-13 Imprimante à jet d'encre équipée pour aligner ses têtes d'impression

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EP01000045A EP1238813A1 (fr) 2001-03-08 2001-03-08 Imprimante jet d'encre équipée pour aligner les têtes d'impression
EP01000045 2001-03-08
EP20020100131 EP1238814B1 (fr) 2001-03-08 2002-02-13 Imprimante à jet d'encre équipée pour aligner ses têtes d'impression

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EP1764996A1 (fr) * 2005-09-20 2007-03-21 Agfa Graphics N.V. Procédé et appareil pour l'alignement automatique de matrices d'éléments d'impression
WO2007039444A1 (fr) * 2005-09-20 2007-04-12 Agfa Graphics Nv Procede et appareil pour aligner automatiquement des reseaux d'elements d'impression
US7434927B2 (en) 2002-11-26 2008-10-14 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Inkjet recording device
GB2448695A (en) * 2007-04-23 2008-10-29 Inca Digital Printers Ltd Large-scale inkjet printer
EP2279872A1 (fr) * 2009-07-31 2011-02-02 Xerox Corporation Système pour détection d'inclinaison de papier

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US541990A (en) 1895-07-02 Hot-gas valve
EP0539812A2 (fr) * 1991-10-31 1993-05-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Mécanisme de commande par came pour cassette d'impression
US5250956A (en) 1991-10-31 1993-10-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Print cartridge bidirectional alignment in carriage axis
EP0571804A2 (fr) * 1992-05-29 1993-12-01 SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, INC. (a Massachusetts corp.) Imprimante par jet d'encre multi-têtes
US5297017A (en) 1991-10-31 1994-03-22 Hewlett-Packard Company Print cartridge alignment in paper axis
US5350929A (en) 1992-05-04 1994-09-27 Hewlett-Packard Company Alignment system for multiple color pen cartridges
US5404020A (en) 1993-04-30 1995-04-04 Hewlett-Packard Company Phase plate design for aligning multiple inkjet cartridges by scanning a reference pattern
US5448269A (en) 1993-04-30 1995-09-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Multiple inkjet cartridge alignment for bidirectional printing by scanning a reference pattern
US5534895A (en) 1994-06-30 1996-07-09 Xerox Corporation Electronic auto-correction of misaligned segmented printbars
US5600350A (en) 1993-04-30 1997-02-04 Hewlett-Packard Company Multiple inkjet print cartridge alignment by scanning a reference pattern and sampling same with reference to a position encoder
EP0813971A2 (fr) * 1996-06-18 1997-12-29 SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, Inc. Architecture d'imprimante électronique modulaire
EP0824074A2 (fr) * 1996-08-14 1998-02-18 Seiko Epson Corporation Mécanisme d'ajustement de la position d'une tête d'enregistrement dans un appareil d'enregistrement par jet d'encre
US5751305A (en) * 1995-09-29 1998-05-12 Hewlett-Packard Company Method and apparatus for dynamically aligning a printer printhead
EP0938973A2 (fr) * 1998-02-25 1999-09-01 Tektronix, Inc. Appareil et procédé pour l'alignement automatique de têtes d'impression
JPH11240204A (ja) * 1998-02-25 1999-09-07 Canon Aptex Inc 記録装置
US6106094A (en) * 1996-01-30 2000-08-22 Neopt Corporation Printer apparatus and printed matter inspecting apparatus
US6189991B1 (en) * 1998-08-14 2001-02-20 Eastman Kodak Company Compensating for receiver skew and changing resolution in ink jet printer

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US541990A (en) 1895-07-02 Hot-gas valve
EP0539812A2 (fr) * 1991-10-31 1993-05-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Mécanisme de commande par came pour cassette d'impression
US5250956A (en) 1991-10-31 1993-10-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Print cartridge bidirectional alignment in carriage axis
US5297017A (en) 1991-10-31 1994-03-22 Hewlett-Packard Company Print cartridge alignment in paper axis
US5350929A (en) 1992-05-04 1994-09-27 Hewlett-Packard Company Alignment system for multiple color pen cartridges
EP0571804A2 (fr) * 1992-05-29 1993-12-01 SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, INC. (a Massachusetts corp.) Imprimante par jet d'encre multi-têtes
US5600350A (en) 1993-04-30 1997-02-04 Hewlett-Packard Company Multiple inkjet print cartridge alignment by scanning a reference pattern and sampling same with reference to a position encoder
US5404020A (en) 1993-04-30 1995-04-04 Hewlett-Packard Company Phase plate design for aligning multiple inkjet cartridges by scanning a reference pattern
US5448269A (en) 1993-04-30 1995-09-05 Hewlett-Packard Company Multiple inkjet cartridge alignment for bidirectional printing by scanning a reference pattern
US5534895A (en) 1994-06-30 1996-07-09 Xerox Corporation Electronic auto-correction of misaligned segmented printbars
US5751305A (en) * 1995-09-29 1998-05-12 Hewlett-Packard Company Method and apparatus for dynamically aligning a printer printhead
US6106094A (en) * 1996-01-30 2000-08-22 Neopt Corporation Printer apparatus and printed matter inspecting apparatus
EP0813971A2 (fr) * 1996-06-18 1997-12-29 SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, Inc. Architecture d'imprimante électronique modulaire
EP0824074A2 (fr) * 1996-08-14 1998-02-18 Seiko Epson Corporation Mécanisme d'ajustement de la position d'une tête d'enregistrement dans un appareil d'enregistrement par jet d'encre
EP0938973A2 (fr) * 1998-02-25 1999-09-01 Tektronix, Inc. Appareil et procédé pour l'alignement automatique de têtes d'impression
JPH11240204A (ja) * 1998-02-25 1999-09-07 Canon Aptex Inc 記録装置
US6189991B1 (en) * 1998-08-14 2001-02-20 Eastman Kodak Company Compensating for receiver skew and changing resolution in ink jet printer

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PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 1999, no. 14 22 December 1999 (1999-12-22) *

Cited By (7)

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US7434927B2 (en) 2002-11-26 2008-10-14 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Inkjet recording device
EP1764996A1 (fr) * 2005-09-20 2007-03-21 Agfa Graphics N.V. Procédé et appareil pour l'alignement automatique de matrices d'éléments d'impression
WO2007039444A1 (fr) * 2005-09-20 2007-04-12 Agfa Graphics Nv Procede et appareil pour aligner automatiquement des reseaux d'elements d'impression
GB2448695A (en) * 2007-04-23 2008-10-29 Inca Digital Printers Ltd Large-scale inkjet printer
GB2448695B (en) * 2007-04-23 2012-07-11 Inca Digital Printers Ltd Large-scale inkjet printer
US9193183B2 (en) 2007-04-23 2015-11-24 Inca Digital Printers Limited Large-scale inkjet printer
EP2279872A1 (fr) * 2009-07-31 2011-02-02 Xerox Corporation Système pour détection d'inclinaison de papier

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