EP2100193A1 - Method and device for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark - Google Patents
Method and device for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner markInfo
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- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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- the invention relates to a method and a device for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark, in which a signal course of a measurement signal is determined.
- Electrographic imaging processes include, for example, electrographic, magnetographic and ionographic imaging processes.
- a method and a device for controlling a printing process are known in which on a subcarrier a toner mark is generated by a character generator with a lower energy than that for generating others Print images spent energy, so that the color density of the colored toner mark is reduced.
- a reflection sensor determines the color density of the colored toner mark, depending on the determined color density, the toner concentration is set in a developer station.
- a false detection in particular a false reading, a property of the toner mark used to control the electrographic imaging process would directly result in incorrect settings of parameters of the imaging process and, in particular, cause incorrect coloration of the printed image to be generated.
- Such a false detection of the property of the toner mark can be caused in particular by disruptions, damages or soiling of an intermediate image carrier, in particular a photoconductor or a transfer belt.
- the object of the invention is to provide a method and a device for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark, which ensures that at least no strongly falsified measurement signals are used to control or regulate the image generation process.
- Measured values, measurement waveforms, and measurement results that do not pass the plausibility check are ignored and not used for the imaging process. If the plausibility check is not passed by the ascertained signal curves of a plurality of consecutively generated toner marks, then a warning or an error message can be output in a suitable manner, for example via a control panel of a printing or copying system, in which the method for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark having the features of patent claim 1 is used.
- a plausibility check of the sensor signal output directly from a sensor for detecting the property of the toner mark and / or its signal course By a plausibility check of the sensor signal output directly from a sensor for detecting the property of the toner mark and / or its signal course, erroneous measured values can be detected quickly and directly without these having already been changed or adapted by further processing.
- Such a plausibility check can determine both mechanical damage and contamination of an image carrier in the region in which the toner mark is produced. This area is also called a trademark track.
- the impurities may be caused by toner adhering to the image carrier, which has not previously been removed from the image carrier by a cleaning unit.
- a maximum value and a minimum value of the signal profile are determined. These extreme values (maximum value, minimum value) are preferably determined in a measuring window, by which a period is defined in which the toner mark to be analyzed is detected by a measuring arrangement, in particular a capacitive toner mark sensor. Furthermore, a measuring window, by which a period is defined in which the toner mark to be analyzed is detected by a measuring arrangement, in particular a capacitive toner mark sensor. Furthermore, a measuring window, by which a period is defined in which the toner mark to be analyzed is detected by a measuring arrangement, in particular a capacitive toner mark sensor. Furthermore, a capacitive toner mark sensor.
- the plausibility check checks the plausibility of the maximum value, the minimum value and / or the difference value.
- the layer thickness of a toner layer supplied to a capacitive sensor can be determined in a simple manner with the aid of the difference value. For example, the average coloration of a not completely colored with toner particles toner mark can be determined, which then at a known layer thickness of the colored areas can be closed on the colored area. This colored surface can be used as the actual value for a point size or line width control.
- the measuring signal is preferably sampled with the aid of a sensor arrangement. In this case, the signal profile can be generated from a plurality of successively determined sample values of the measurement signal output by the sensor arrangement.
- the time interval between the occurrence of the maximum value and the occurrence of the minimum value as a criterion can be determined for the plausibility check.
- the time interval between a measurement window size of the time measurement window for detecting the property of the toner mark and the occurrence of the maximum value and / or the minimum value can be determined as a criterion or as criteria.
- an asymmetry between the distance between the maximum value and a reference value and the distance between the minimum value and the reference value can be determined as a criterion.
- the measurement signal can be determined with the aid of a capacitive sensor which has two plate capacitors arranged one behind the other in the transport direction of the image carrier carrying the toner mark, the capacitors being charged with charging voltages opposite to a reference potential for charging the capacitors.
- the capacitors are short-circuited after the charging process, whereby a charge difference is generated.
- This charge difference is a measure of the capacitance difference of the two capacitors due to the positioning of the toner mark in the air gap of at least one capacitor.
- each plausibility check is assigned an error counter.
- Such an error counter is incremented if the plausibility criterion assigned to this error counter has not been complied with.
- the error is decremented if the plausibility criterion has been adhered to.
- the incrementing is preferably done by a higher count than the decrementing. This can easily be an error signal, in particular a fault be issued if at least one error counter exceeds a preset limit.
- a background adjustment of the image carrier can be carried out. As a result, errors due to contamination and damage to the image carrier can be at least partially ignored.
- the signal profiles of the measurement signals of a plurality of successively generated toner marks are detected.
- a corrected waveform is generated.
- the signal curve is corrected, for example, by means of averaging or median value formation.
- the plausibility check is then performed for the corrected waveform of the measurement signal.
- a second aspect of the invention relates to a device for determining a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark.
- the device has a sensor for detecting the signal profile of a measurement signal.
- the device comprises a control unit which carries out a plausibility check of the signal profile determined with the aid of the sensor.
- Such a device can be used to ensure that strongly deviating measured values or a waveform deviating greatly from the usual signal profile or a signal course deviating from a possible signal waveform of the measuring signal when detecting a particular toner mark can be determined, in which case this signal characteristic is used for controlling or Control of the imaging process is not further used.
- Figure Ia is a schematic representation of the structure of an apparatus for determining the area coverage of a toner mark
- FIG. 1 b shows a voltage-time diagram with the basic profile of a measurement signal generated by the device according to FIG. 1 a when a toner mark is being carried out;
- Figure 2 is a diagram showing the waveform of the sensor signal over 1000 sampling points of a toner mark produced by a first printing unit
- FIG. 3 shows the respectively sampled signal profiles of the sensor signal in the case of a multiplicity of toner marks produced successively with a second printing unit;
- FIG. 4 shows a first flowchart for checking a first plausibility criterion;
- FIG. 5 shows a flowchart for checking a second plausibility criterion
- FIG. 6 shows a flowchart for determining a third plausibility criterion.
- FIG. 1 a shows a measuring arrangement 10 for detecting a toner mark 39 produced as toner particle layer 38 by means of an electrographic image-forming process.
- This measuring arrangement 10 is used in an electrographic printer or copier to detect the inking of the printed image and / or the dot size of dot dots colored with toner particles. With the aid of the measuring arrangement 10, the mean layer thickness of a toner mark 39 present in the detection area of this measuring arrangement 10 is detected.
- the toner mark 39 has a homogeneous printed image with a uniform inking pattern with a full-surface coloring or with a non-full-color coloring.
- the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 has been produced on a photoconductor belt 16 charged by means of a charging device, for example a co-rotating device, with the aid of a character generator, such as an LED character generator or a laser character generator, as a latent raster image in the form of a charge image.
- This latent raster image has subsequently been developed with the aid of a developer unit (not shown), in which the developer unit has provided it.
- Toner particles have been used for coloring the latent raster image.
- Developing the latent image with toner particles is preferably carried out by means of a so-called tribo-jump development, in which the electrically charged toner particles provided by the developer unit from the developer unit by the force applied thereto by an electric field in the direction of the areas of the latent image to be inked to be colored
- the voltage required to generate the electric field is also referred to as a bias voltage. It is particularly advantageous if a layer of toner particles having a substantially constant layer thickness is provided by the developer station, which is then transferred by the bias voltage only to the areas to be inked.
- the photoconductor belt 16 is a circulating endless belt which is guided by means of deflection rollers (not shown) is.
- the photoconductor belt 16 contains electrically conductive components, which are electrically conductively connected to a reference potential 18.
- Parallel to the lateral surface 40, a first electrode 12 and a second electrode 14 are arranged, which are formed in the embodiment as a plate-shaped electrodes 12, 14.
- the effective areas of the electrodes 12, 14 and the photoconductive belt 16 serving as the counterelectrode face each other, and the first and second electrodes 12 and 14 preferably have the same effective area.
- the photoconductor band 16 is thus a counter electrode connected to the reference potential 18 to the electrodes 12, 14.
- the first electrode 12 and the counterelectrode form a first capacitor 13, and the second electrode 14 and the counterelectrode form a second capacitor 15 the same effective area of the electrodes 12, 14 and an equal distance of the electrodes 12, 14 to the counter electrode, the first capacitor 13 and the second capacitor 15 have the same capacity when between the photoconductor belt 16 no toner layer 38 and no toner residues or the same amount of toner are present ,
- the distance between the photoconductor belt 16 and the electrodes 14, 16 is preset to a value in the range of 0.2 mm and 10 mm. Preferably, this distance is about 1 mm.
- a switching unit 26 is provided to connect the electrode 12 to a reference potential 18 positive voltage source 42 and the electrode 14 with a negative voltage to the reference potential 18 by means of changeover switches 46, 48 in a first switching state.
- the amounts of the voltages provided by the voltage sources are preferably the same.
- the positive voltage output by the voltage source 42 for example +10 V
- negative voltage output by the voltage source 44 for example -10 V
- the reference potential 18 for example 0 V.
- the switching unit 26 disconnects the connections to the voltage sources 42, 44 with the aid of the switches 46, 48, short-circuits the two electrodes 12, 14 and thereby establishes a connection to the evaluation unit 24.
- the charge difference of the capacitors 13, 15 is determined and fed to the evaluation unit 24.
- the switching unit 26 is a clock signal 34 of a clock 32 is supplied, which is preferably a square wave signal with a constant duty cycle ratio.
- the clock frequency of the clock signal 34 and thus the switching frequency of the switching unit 26 for switching the two switching states or the switches 46, 48 is preferably in the range between 300 Hz and 1 MHz.
- the clock generator 32 is in particular part of the control unit for evaluating the sensor signal output by the measuring arrangement 10, wherein the clock signal 34 in the switching unit causes a change in the switching state of the switches 46, 48.
- the switching of the capacitors as a result of the switching states is also referred to as switched capacitor technology. Further details on the structure and further embodiments of the measuring arrangement 10 are from the document DE 101 51 703 Al and the parallel US patent 6 771 913 B2, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference into the present specification.
- the evaluation unit 24 may have, for example, a filter and a downstream amplifier. A measurement signal generated by the evaluation unit 24 is supplied to a control unit (not shown) for further processing. If, as already mentioned, a filter is used in the evaluation unit 24 for evaluation, then the filter type and the required filter parameters of the
- Filters are preset depending on the switching frequency and the resulting sampling frequency.
- the capacitance difference of the two capacitors 13, 15 is determined at each sampling time or at each switching time in the second operating state.
- the layer thickness of the toner particle layer can be determined, which would be present with a uniform distribution of the toner particles present in the respective capacitor 13, 15 on the effective area of the respective capacitor 13, 15.
- the middle Layer thickness determined in the detection range of the respective capacitor 13, 15 toner particles determined as a toner mark 39 which covers half the effective area of a capacitor 13, 15 and has a first layer thickness can not be distinguished from a second toner mark 39, the total effective area of the capacitor 13, 15 covered and half the layer thickness of the first layer thickness.
- the exact layer thickness profile of a toner mark in the transport direction of the photoconductor belt 16 can be determined with a correspondingly elaborate evaluation and a sufficient number of scans with respect to the transport speed for transporting the photoconductor belt 16 in the direction of the arrow Pl.
- the capacitance change of the capacitors 13, 15 due to the toner particles of the toner layer 38 present on the photoconductor belt 16 in the region of the capacitors 13, 15 results from the change of the dielectric, i. from the change of the layered dielectric of the respective capacitor 13, 15 during the transport of the toner layer 38 between the respective electrode 12, 14 and the counterelectrode of the respective capacitor 13, 15.
- the charge difference generated by the short circuit of the electrodes 12, 14 in the second switching state as a function of the capacitances of the capacitors 13, 15 at the sampling time is further processed with the aid of the evaluation circuit 24 and is preferably supplied to the control unit.
- the control unit according to the invention can also cover the area of the respective toner mark 39 at a known layer thickness determine if the print image of the respective toner mark 39 is not completely colored with toner particles.
- the area colored with toner particles and / or the surface of toner mark 39 not colored with toner particles can be formed with a constant known layer thickness with the aid of a capacitor 13, 15 be determined or determined in the region of the respective capacitor 13, 15.
- the layer thickness of the toner particle layer and, thereby, the optical density of the toner swatch can be determined or determined.
- the inked area of the toner mark 39 can be determined if the toner mark 39 additionally or alternately has punctiform colored areas. These punctiform colored areas can comprise individual pixels as well as areas composed of several pixels, so-called super pixels.
- FIG. 1 b shows a time-voltage diagram in which the basic signal curve of a measuring signal output by the measuring arrangement according to FIG. 1 a is shown.
- a continuous signal curve is shown in the time-voltage diagram according to FIG.
- the actual waveform is composed of a plurality of samples.
- the sampling rate for determining these samples is determined by the clock signal 34 output by the clock 32.
- the waveform is sampled by the evaluation device 24 as the toner mark 39 passes through the capacitors 13, 15 as the photoconductor belt 16 travels at a constant speed, for example in the range of 0.2 to 2 m / s between the electrodes 12, 14 and the photoconductor belt 16 is passed through the capacitors 13, 15.
- the dielectric constant of toner is greater than the dielectric constant of air.
- the capacitance of the capacitors 13, 15 when passing the toggle mark 39 through these capacitors 13, 15 is changed.
- the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 is transported into the first capacitor 13.
- the capacitance of the first capacitor 13 increases until the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 covers the largest possible effective area of the first capacitor 13.
- the signal shown in FIG. 1b thereby increases with increasing capacitance of the first capacitor 13 from 0 V up to a maximum U +.
- the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 is further transported into the second capacitor 15 and at the same time transported out of the first capacitor 13. Thereby increases the capacity of the second capacitor 15 to the same extent as the capacitance of the first capacitor 13 decreases. As a result, the negative increase in the output signal of the evaluation arrangement 24 is approximately twice as great as merely conveying out the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 from the first capacitor 13 or while conveying the toner layer 38 of the toner mark 39 into the second capacitor 15.
- the evaluation arrangement 24 outputs a voltage signal U-. Subsequently, the toner layer 38 is conveyed out of the second capacitor 15, whereby the output from the evaluation device 24 voltage signal from value U to 0 continuously increases. This increase takes place until the time at which the toner layer 38 has been transported out of the second capacitor 15.
- the z For not completely colored toner brands, the z. If, for example, a plurality of colored areas arranged next to each other in strips, the mean layer thickness of the toner mark 39 can be determined with the aid of the measuring arrangement 10, which would be produced with a uniform distribution of the toner particle quantity used to color the toner image which had not been colored over the entire surface. With the aid of the measuring arrangement 10, a stepwise change in capacitance as a result of the inked and non-inked areas of a toner mark is possible, at least with considerable effort, if strip-shaped inked areas of the toner mark 39 are transverse to the transport direction P1 of the photo mark. ladder band are aligned.
- the toner mark which is not completely colored may comprise point-shaped colored areas which consist of a pixel or in which a punctiform colored area comprises a plurality of pixels forming a so-called superpixel.
- the superpixel comprises, for example, 2 ⁇ 2, 2 ⁇ 3 or 4 ⁇ 4 pixels.
- the average coloration of a toner mark or a measurement signal which corresponds to the mean layer thickness of a toner mark which is not inked in the entire area can be easily determined with the aid of the measuring arrangement 10. If, in addition, the layer thickness is known with which the toner image which has not been dyed over the entire surface is colored, the areal coverage of this toner mark, which is not inked in the entire area, can be determined in a simple manner on the basis of the determined average layer thickness of the toner mark which has not been completely colored.
- the layer thickness can be determined in various ways, in particular measured.
- a full-color toned toner mark is detected with the aid of the arrangement according to FIG. 1a, wherein the different change in the capacitances of the capacitors 13, 15 due to the fully inked toner mark and the toner mark not inked over the entire surface indicates the area coverage of the toner mark not inked over the full area.
- FIG. 2 shows an actual signal curve of the sensor signal of the measuring arrangement according to FIG.
- a first toner mark referred to as the discharge mark
- a second toner mark referred to as the inking mark
- the toner-colored marks are preferably produced in areas on the photoconductor belt 16 which is not transferred to a substrate to be printed, in particular not to individual sheets or a web-shaped recording medium.
- the toner marks may be generated and scanned in an operational state in which no further print images are generated.
- a plurality of measuring points are detected one after the other, of which the signal values determined at the measuring points 100 to 1100 are shown by way of example in FIG.
- the maximum value and the minimum value of the signal change of the sensor signal caused by the inking mark of the side i are approximately 44 measuring points apart.
- the maximum and the minimum of the signal change caused by the discharge mark of the side i + 1 are about 74 measuring points apart.
- the maximum and the minimum of the signal curve of the measuring arrangement according to FIG. 1a caused by the inking mark of the side i + 1 are about 45 measuring points apart.
- a measuring point distance between the unloading mark and the inking mark is predetermined by the positioning of the unloading marks and inking marks relative to one another.
- so-called measurement windows can be easily defined in which the maximum value and the minimum value must occur in the overall signal course. In this case, only the waveform in the preset measurement window can be detected and / or analyzed and evaluated.
- FIG. 3 shows the actual signal curves over approximately 260 measuring points of a plurality of successively generated and scanned inking marks in a diagram. These waveforms have each been detected in the time window shown in FIG.
- the measurement windows shown in FIG. 3 comprise the regions 100, 102, 104. In this case, it is checked whether the respective signal sequence has occurred in a temporal region 102 at the beginning of the measurement window and / or in a region 104 at the end of the measurement window , Thus, the location of each toner mark within the measurement window is checked. If, for example, the minimum value lies in the region 102 or the maximum value in the region 104, it is not ensured that the entire signal curve generated by the toner mark is present in the region 100 used for the evaluation.
- the measurement window composed of the areas 100, 102, 104 has a total size of approximately 260 measurement points which define the period of the measurement window.
- the signal profile directly influenced by the inking mark comprises about 150 measuring points.
- the signal curve influenced by a discharge mark comprises about 200 measuring points.
- the distance between the maximum and minimum of the inking marks is about 45 measuring points and the distance from the maximum to the minimum of unloading marks is about 75 measuring points.
- the distance from the maximum of the unloading mark to the maximum of the inking mark is about 300 measuring points and the distance between the maximum of the inking mark and the maximum of the unloading mark is about 560 measuring points.
- the minimum or maximum caused by the toner mark is arranged in the region 102 in the signal curve. Furthermore, it is checked whether a mark indicated by the toner mark in the naifliven effected minimum or maximum in the area 104 occurs. In addition, it is checked whether the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value comprises at least 500 measuring units. In the case of the only partially colored release marks, ie for toner patterns which are not completely colored, the minimum difference of 500 measuring units to be exceeded can also be chosen to be smaller. It is also checked whether the extreme values (minimum, maximum) are symmetrical to a defined zero line. The tolerance for a deviating asymmetry is ⁇ 75 measuring units.
- the distance between the two extreme values is specified by the status variable "WrongMarkTriggered", whereby the distance may be a maximum of 60 measuring points and a minimum of 30 measuring points.
- the first extreme value (in FIG. 3: minimum) should be at least 60 measuring points after the beginning of the measuring window and thus not in the range 102.
- the second extreme value (in FIG. 3: maximum) should be at least 60 measuring points before the measuring window end, and thus not in the range 104
- the presence of an extremum in area 102 is indicated by the status variable "WndCutAtTheBeginning" and in area 104 by the status variable "WndCutAtTheEnd".
- the minimum distance between two toner marks is at least 300 measuring points. Within a tint mark the maximum distance between minimum and maximum is 75 measuring points. As a result, theoretically, an extreme value of the preceding unloading mark could lie within the measuring window of the currently considered inking mark. By defining the measurement windows and the other plausibility criteria, however, a check is made, whereby such a misinterpretation of signal curves is avoided. This ensures that the signal curve of a single toner brand (inking mark or unloading mark) is actually viewed and evaluated, and closing the belonging to a toner mark extreme values determined to be used for further processing.
- the inking mark is a toner mark for determining an actual value for a dyeing control, with which, in particular, the amount of toner to be replenished in the developer station is regulated in accordance with the coloration determined.
- This inking mark is preferably a full-color colored inking mark.
- a second full-color inked toner mark is produced as a discharge mark at a distance from the first toner mark. With the help of this unloading mark the discharge potential of toner dots to be inked halftone dots is controlled to a predetermined setpoint, with the aid of this discharge mark the discharge potential is set via the light energy emitted by the character generator to unload a halftone dot to be inked.
- the toner particles for dyeing are preferably provided by means of an applicator element from the developer station as a toner particle layer having a preset, preferably controlled, layer thickness.
- An air gap is preferably provided between the toner particle layer and the lateral surface of the image carrier, with the toner particles of the toner layer being transferred to the image carrier via this air gap with the aid of a so-called bias voltage.
- the applicator element is subjected to the bias voltage and generates ground the potential difference to the discharge potential an electric field, which exerts a force on the toner particles provided from the developer station to the inked areas of an image carrier.
- the first criterion ensures that the signal has actually been caused by a toner mark.
- the second criterion ensures that the determined maximum value and minimum value is also the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum of the signal curve produced by the considered toner mark, since an asymmetry of the minimum value and the maximum value to a reference value indicates extreme values of different toner brands.
- the third criterion is for distinguishing between inking marks and unloading marks, while the fourth criterion ensures that the entire toner mark under consideration lies within the measuring window.
- a signal curve averaged over a plurality of identical toner marks should preferably be determined (for example, over 5 identical toner marks) in order to exclude the influence of coarse signal disturbances.
- a median value profile can be determined via the signal curves of several toner marks or a smoothed signal curve can be generated with the aid of a corresponding curve function (digital compensation curve).
- FIG. 4 shows a flow chart for checking the plausibility of the time interval between the two extreme values of a signal curve generated by a toner mark. shows.
- the process is started in step S10.
- step S12 the signal generated by the toner mark sensor is analyzed by the toner mark and the status variable "WrongMarkTriggered" is determined.
- the status variable indicates whether the minimum allowable distance between the two extreme values and / or the maximum allowable distance between the two extreme values has been adhered to or not.
- step S16 a previously determined measured value or a preset value is used as the further measured value, in which the currently determined measured value is replaced by the previously determined valid measured value or the preset value. Subsequently, an error counter is incremented by the value 3 in step S18.
- step S14 If it is determined in step S14 that the status variable indicates that the time interval between the extreme values is within the permissible range, the count value of the error counter is reduced by the value 1 in step S20. Subsequently, or after the counter has been incremented by the value 3 in step S18, it is checked in step S22 whether the error counter is greater than or equal to the preset limit of 10. If this is not the case, the sequence in step S12 is continued by detecting the course of a further toner mark and its toner mark status.
- step S22 determines whether the permissible limit value of 10 is reached or exceeded.
- step S24 a procedure for band background adjustment is started, and then the error correction procedure is started.
- counter is set to zero in step S26.
- the warning issued via the control panel is deactivated in step S30.
- the process in step S12 is continued for another toner mark.
- FIG. 5 shows a flowchart for the plausibility check of the distance of the first extreme value (in FIG. 3: minimum) to the beginning of the measurement window.
- the process is started in step S40.
- step S42 in the same manner as in step S12 of FIG. 5, the waveform of the capacitive toner mark sensor generated by the toner mark is detected and analyzed, which is generated by the toner mark. Based on the signal curve, the status variable "MeasurementWndCutAtTheBeginning" is determined and, if necessary, activated, for example, this status variable is set to the value 1 when an extreme value (minimum) has already occurred in the work area 102.
- step S44 it is then checked whether the status variable "MeasurementWndCutAtTheBeginning" is activated, ie has the value 1. If this is the case, the counter of the error counter assigned to this error is subsequently increased by the value 1 in step S46. If it is determined in step S44 that the first extreme value is not within working range 102, then the variable "MeasurementWndCutAtTheBeginning" is not activated and the sequence proceeds to step S48 by reducing the count value of the error counter by one. Subsequently, it is checked in step S50 whether the error counter has reached or exceeded a limit value of 100.
- step S52 a warning is output in step S52, preferably via the control panel of the printing or copying system.
- step S42 is continued for another toner mark. If it is determined in step S50 that the limit value of the error counter has not been exceeded, the sequence is also continued in step S42.
- FIG. 6 shows a flowchart in which it is checked whether the second extreme value (in FIG. 3: maximum) occurs in the working area 104 at the end of the measurement window. The process is started in step S60. Subsequently, in step S62, the signal curve of the capacitive toner mark sensor caused by the toner mark and the status of this toner mark are determined and analyzed.
- the status variable "Measure- mentWndCutAtTheEnd” is determined and set. For example, the status variable "MeasurementWndCutAtTheEnd” is activated when an extreme value in region 104 has occurred. Subsequently, in step S64, it is checked with the aid of the status variable "MeasurementWndCutAtTheEnd” whether an extreme value of the signal progression caused by the toner mark has occurred in the region 104. If this is the case, the count value of an error counter is subsequently increased by 1 in step S66. If this is not the case, the count value of the error counter is reduced by the value 1 in step S68.
- step S70 After step S66 or after step S68, it is checked in step S70 whether the count value has reached or exceeded the limit value 100. If this is the case, then a warning, preferably via a control panel of the printer or copier, issued and the process continues in step S62 for another toner brand. If it is determined in step S70 that the limit value has not been exceeded, the process also continues in step S62.
- the error counters are designed so that they can not assume any negative values.
- the activation of the status variable "WrongMarkTriggered" can be caused by defects of the photoconductor or deposits. Defects of the photoconductor can be determined by a band background compensation and their effects on the evaluation of the manufacturer's mark can be taken into account (hidden). Is the
- the invention can be advantageously used in electrographic printing or copying machines whose recording methods for image formation are based in particular on the electrophotographic, magnetographic or ionographic recording principle. Further, the printing or copying apparatuses can use a recording method for image formation, in which an image recording medium is directly or indirectly electrically driven pointwise. However, the invention is not limited to such electrographic printing or copying machines.
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