EP0897804A3 - Liquid ink printhead - Google Patents

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EP0897804A3
EP0897804A3 EP98303777A EP98303777A EP0897804A3 EP 0897804 A3 EP0897804 A3 EP 0897804A3 EP 98303777 A EP98303777 A EP 98303777A EP 98303777 A EP98303777 A EP 98303777A EP 0897804 A3 EP0897804 A3 EP 0897804A3
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nozzle
image
nozzles
liquid ink
printhead
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP0897804A2 (en
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Yonglin Xie
Mark D. Tracy
Michael C. Ferringer
Ivan Rezanka
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Xerox Corp
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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
    • B41J2/04541—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
    • B41J2/0458—Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits controlling heads based on heating elements forming bubbles
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J19/00—Character- or line-spacing mechanisms
    • B41J19/14—Character- or line-spacing mechanisms with means for effecting line or character spacing in either direction
    • B41J19/142—Character- or line-spacing mechanisms with means for effecting line or character spacing in either direction with a reciprocating print head printing in both directions across the paper width

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Quality & Reliability (AREA)
  • Particle Formation And Scattering Control In Inkjet Printers (AREA)
  • Ink Jet (AREA)

Abstract

A liquid ink printer including a liquid ink printhead for ejecting liquid ink drops on a recording medium to form an image thereon having reduced misting defects. A printhead includes a selection circuit (100), coupled to a plurality of transducers (92), for causing non-adjacent nozzles of an array of nozzles (50) to eject liquid ink drops substantially simultaneously. In addition, a method of reducing misting defects during printing of a line of an image by a liquid ink printhead having a plurality of transducers (92) being activatable to eject ink from an array of N nozzles (50) includes the steps of ejecting a first ink drop from a first nozzle and a second ink drop from a second nozzle substantially simultaneously to form a first portion of the line of the image, the first nozzle and the second nozzle being non-adjacent, and ejecting a third ink drop from a third nozzle of the array of nozzles to form a second portion of the line of the image, the third nozzle being located between the first nozzle and the second nozzle. Multiple ripples of the printhead nozzles are made to complete a single line of the image.
EP98303777A 1997-08-15 1998-05-14 Liquid ink printhead Withdrawn EP0897804A3 (en)

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US911242 1986-09-24
US91124297A 1997-08-15 1997-08-15

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US6922203B2 (en) * 2001-06-06 2005-07-26 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Barrier/orifice design for improved printhead performance
JP2003159787A (en) 2001-11-28 2003-06-03 Seiko Epson Corp Ejection method and its apparatus, electro-optic device, method and apparatus for manufacturing the device, color filter, method and apparatus for manufacturing the filter, device with substrate, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the device
US9475286B2 (en) 2013-04-23 2016-10-25 Hewlett-Packard Industrial Printing Ltd Cross-talk suppression of adjacent inkjet nozzles
US9981465B1 (en) * 2017-02-20 2018-05-29 RF Printing Technologies LLC Inkjet printing apparatus with firing or heating waveform selector

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EP0461939A2 (en) * 1990-06-15 1991-12-18 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Ink jet recording apparatus using heat generating element
US5142296A (en) * 1990-11-09 1992-08-25 Dataproducts Corporation Ink jet nozzle crosstalk suppression
EP0771656A2 (en) * 1995-10-30 1997-05-07 Eastman Kodak Company Nozzle dispersion for reduced electrostatic interaction between simultaneously printed droplets
EP0779151A2 (en) * 1995-12-14 1997-06-18 Kabushiki Kaisha TEC Head driving device for ink-jet printer

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US4571599A (en) 1984-12-03 1986-02-18 Xerox Corporation Ink cartridge for an ink jet printer
USRE32572E (en) 1985-04-03 1988-01-05 Xerox Corporation Thermal ink jet printhead and process therefor
US5057855A (en) 1990-01-12 1991-10-15 Xerox Corporation Thermal ink jet printhead and control arrangement therefor
US5192959A (en) 1991-06-03 1993-03-09 Xerox Corporation Alignment of pagewidth bars
US5300968A (en) 1992-09-10 1994-04-05 Xerox Corporation Apparatus for stabilizing thermal ink jet printer spot size
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EP0461939A2 (en) * 1990-06-15 1991-12-18 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Ink jet recording apparatus using heat generating element
US5142296A (en) * 1990-11-09 1992-08-25 Dataproducts Corporation Ink jet nozzle crosstalk suppression
EP0771656A2 (en) * 1995-10-30 1997-05-07 Eastman Kodak Company Nozzle dispersion for reduced electrostatic interaction between simultaneously printed droplets
EP0779151A2 (en) * 1995-12-14 1997-06-18 Kabushiki Kaisha TEC Head driving device for ink-jet printer

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