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20080198189 | Image Printing Method and System For Improving Image Quality in Dot Matrix Printer - Ink coalescence in inkjet printing is reduced by printing mutually interstitial images using an arrangement of multiple curing stations in combination with multiple printing heads. | 08-21-2008 |
20080204489 | SELF-PROPELLED IMAGE TRANSLATION DEVICE - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a self-propelled image translation device are described herein. The self-propelled image translation device may include a propulsion module to control propulsion components to autonomously propel the image translation device over an adjacent medium. An input/output module of the self-propelled image translation device may control input/output components to translate an image between the device and an adjacent medium. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 08-28-2008 |
20080204490 | EJECTION RATE MEASUREMENT METHOD, EJECTION RATE ADJUSTMENT METHOD, LIQUID EJECTION METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COLOR FILTER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - An ejection rate measurement method for a device having a plurality of droplet ejection head columns mounted on a plurality of carriages includes the steps of (a) measuring an ejection rate of a liquid ejected from a droplet ejection head included in one of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns sandwiched between other two of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns, (b) sandwiching, after step (a), one of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns, which has not been sandwiched between other two of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns in step (a), between other two of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns, and (c) measuring an ejection rate of a liquid ejected from a droplet ejection head included in one of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns sandwiched between other two of the plurality of droplet ejection head columns in step (b). | 08-28-2008 |
20080204491 | MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE - A motor driving device, which drives a DC motor, includes a motor driving unit, a status determination unit, and an initial value renewal unit. The motor driving unit repeatedly performs a change-over, wherein the motor driving unit changes an amount of a current inputted into the DC motor to an initial value at a predetermined timing, and then gradually increases the amount of the current from the initial value, in order to slowly move a driving target, driven by rotational force of the DC motor, in a moving direction. The status determination unit determines whether or not the driving target is in a predetermined status. The initial value renewal unit changes the initial value when the status determination unit determines that the driving target is in the predetermined status. | 08-28-2008 |
20080211840 | PRINTHEAD WITH ENERGY SUPPLY CONTROL AND ENERGY TRANSFER CONTROL - Disclosed is a printhead, such as a thermal printhead. The printhead includes at least one image-forming element configured to actuate between a printing position and a non-printing position relative to the printhead. The printhead can be configured to be incorporated into a printer for processing media, such as thermal media, such that the image-forming element is configured to transfer energy to the media when the image-forming element is in the printing position, and the image-forming element is configured to inhibit energy transfer to the media when the image-forming element is in the non-printing position. Corresponding methods and printers are also provided. | 09-04-2008 |
20080211841 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording head which ejects an ejection liquid; a liquid container which accommodates air and the ejection liquid; a recording head connection flow channel which leads from the liquid container to the recording head; a pressure determination device which determines pressure of the ejection liquid accommodated in the liquid container; a first pressure supply device which drives a rotating body to remove or introduce the air from or to the liquid container so as to keep pressure of the air in the liquid container constant; a phase determination device which determines a phase of the rotating body; a second pressure supply device which is disposed in a pulsation suppressing flow channel that connects the liquid container with the recording head connection flow channel and which removes and introduces the ejection liquid from or to the liquid container; and a control device which controls rotation speed of the second pressure supply device in accordance with the phase of the rotating body determined by the phase determination device so as to cancel out variation of the pressure of the ejection liquid caused by the first pressure supply device. | 09-04-2008 |
20080211842 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND EJECTION DETERMINATION METHOD - The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid ejection head having a plurality of ejection ports which eject droplets of liquid; a light emitting device which emits a determination light beam intersecting with flight paths of the droplets ejected from at least two of the ejection ports to be examined; a light receiving device which receives the determination light beam having passed through the flight paths of the droplets and outputs a determination signal corresponding to an amount of received light; an ejection port selection device which selects the at least two of the ejection ports to be examined so that the at least two of the ejection ports are disposed on a line parallel to an optical axis of the determination light beam, and that a distance between the at least two of the ejection ports along the optical axis of the determination light beam is smaller than a prescribed specific distance; an ejection control device which performs ejection driving to eject the droplets at substantially same time from the at least two ejection ports selected by the ejection port selection device; and an ejection state judgment device which judges droplet ejection state of the at least two ejection ports according to the determination signal outputted by the light receiving device when the droplets ejected due to the ejection driving performed by the ejection control device pass through the determination light beam. | 09-04-2008 |
20080211843 | Method Of Operating A Nozzle Chamber Having Radially Positioned Actuators - Provided is a method of operating a nozzle chamber. The nozzle chamber has a wafer defining a chamber with an ink ejection port and ink supply channel along with a plurality of radially positioned actuators about the port. Each actuator has an internal serpentine core arranged in signal communication with a CMOS layer on the wafer. The method includes the steps of supplying the chamber with ink via the ink supply channel, and passing current through the serpentine cores for a predetermined period of time. The current produces thermal expansion of the actuators into the chamber to increase a chamber ink pressure to eject ink from the ejection port. | 09-04-2008 |
20080211844 | Determination of ink ejection amount error for a printer - A plurality of same ink nozzle arrays are provided, and multiple color patches are printed with mutually different dot recording rates respectively using one of the same ink nozzle arrays. Color specification value of the plurality of color patches is measured for each same ink nozzle array. The ink ejection amount error of each same ink nozzle array is determined based on the color specification values of the plurality of color patches for each same ink nozzle array. It is also possible to select among the plurality of color patches a preferable color patch that is closest to a specified reference color patch, and to determine the ink ejection amount error from the dot recording rate of the preferable color patch. | 09-04-2008 |
20080218543 | Method For Decreasing Sensitivity To Errors In An Imaging Apparatus - A method for decreasing sensitivity to errors in an imaging apparatus includes, defining an ideal pattern of dot locations as a rectilinear grid formed by an intersection of a plurality of rasters and a plurality of vertical columns; for each raster of the plurality of rasters defining a plurality of groups of dot locations; and for each raster of the plurality of rasters, vertically shifting some groups of the plurality of groups of dot locations while not vertically shifting a remainder of groups of the plurality of groups of dot locations so as to define a non-ideal vertically shifted pattern of dot locations. | 09-11-2008 |
20080218544 | INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - An image-forming apparatus is provided which prevents irregularity of an image density and improves the life of heating elements. In a half of recording heads (a group of recording heads | 09-11-2008 |
20080231647 | Printing - A method and apparatus for transferring an image of predetermined length onto a substrate by selective energization of a row of printing elements in a printhead of a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus may be arranged with a print ribbon located between the printhead and the substrate such that ink is selectively transferred from the ribbon to the substrate as a result of energisations of the printing elements. The image to be printed is rendered in memory as a series of rows of pixels and the apparatus is set up to download the rendered rows of pixels to the printhead successively. The relative positioning of successively printed rows of pixels on the substrate is determined by relative displacement between the printhead and the substrate. The apparatus is set up to control the positioning of the rows of pixels by controlling the delay between successive energisations of the printing elements. Operational characteristics of the printing apparatus are determined, and the image is rendered such that the number of rows of the pixels in the rendered image is no greater than the maximum number of rows of pixels which can be printed in the length of the image given the operational characteristics of the printing apparatus. Additional rows of pixels may be printed between pairs of rows of printed which correspond to consecutive rows in the rendered image. The pixel content of each additional row is a function of the pixel content of the adjacent pairs of rows. | 09-25-2008 |
20080238960 | Print method, print apparatus, and recording medium driving apparatus - A print method that prints visible information by ejecting ink droplets from a print head onto a printed object rotated by a rotational driving unit is provided. The print method includes the steps of: carrying out impact position correction that corrects displacements in impact positions of the ink droplets to convert the visible information to impact position-corrected polar coordinate data when converting the visible information from biaxial perpendicular coordinate data to polar coordinate data; generating ink ejection data based on the impact position-corrected polar coordinate data; and printing the visible information by ejecting the ink droplets onto the printed object based on the ink ejection data. | 10-02-2008 |
20080238961 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet recording device according to an aspect of the invention comprises: an ejection head configured to eject ink on a recording medium; a conveying unit configured to convey the recording medium on a conveying path, the conveying path including a first conveying path positioned where the ejection head forms an image on the recording medium and extending along a first direction; an attaching unit configured to attach a second recording medium having an adherable part adherable to the recording medium such that a part of the second recording medium projects from an end portion of the recording medium with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ejection head is configured to record an image on the second recording medium in a position outside the recording medium with respect to the second direction. | 10-02-2008 |
20080238962 | METHOD OF PRIMING PAGEWIDTH INKJET PRINTHEAD - A method of priming an inkjet printhead having ink ejection nozzles. The method includes: providing an ink bag containing ink for distribution to the nozzles via a fluid path between the ink bag and the nozzles; applying inwardly directed force on at least one exterior wall of the ink bag so as to reduce an available fluid volume of the ink bag, thereby causing ink to flow from the ink bag to the nozzles along the fluid path; and arranging a biasing member in the ink bag so that the biasing member applies outwardly directed force on at least one interior wall of the ink bag to restrain the reduction of available fluid volume of the ink bag only once the available fluid volume of the ink bag has been reduced to a predetermined volume. The printhead is a pagewidth printhead, having a pagewidth of 100.9 millimetres. | 10-02-2008 |
20080246788 | DRIVER DEVICE AND LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE - In a switch provided in a driver device and connected to a driver, a terminal and a lever is separated from each other (in the separated state) when a predetermined electric potential is not applied to a gate electrode. When a predetermined electric potential is applied to the gate electrode, the lever of the corresponding switch is deformed by electrostatic force between the gate electrode and the lever and comes into contact with the terminal, and thus the terminals are connected with the lever (in the contact state). A plurality of drivers are connected to the terminals of two or more of switches, respectively, and, when a driving potential is outputted from a driver, the driving potential is applied to a surface individual electrode connected to the switch in the contact state. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252670 | Apparatus for Facilitating Ink Tank/Printhead Replacement In An Imaging Apparatus - An imaging apparatus configured for mounting a printhead, to which at least one ink tank is removably mounted, includes a print engine configured to move the printhead carrier along a bi-direction main scan path. The printhead carrier has a printhead latch having a printhead latch release button, which when actuated releases the printhead latch to allow removal of the printhead. The printhead has a respective ink tank latch for mourning the respective ink tank to a printhead body. The respective Ink tank latch includes a respective ink lank release button which when actuated unlatches the respective ink tank latch to allow removal of the respective ink tank from the printhead body. An access panel has a first-opening defining an ink tank removal location that permits access to the respective ink tank release button, while the access panel prevents access to the printhead latch release button. | 10-16-2008 |
20080252671 | Computerized Apparatus and Method for Applying Graphics to Surfaces - A system and method for applying an image to a substrate surface are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a set of color matrix maps representing color pixel overlays forming the image, effecting a positioning of a print head array relative to the substrate surface, the print head array comprising at least one print head having a plurality of nozzles, receiving real-time geometry data representing the print head array position and orientation in space, determining, in response to the real-time geometry data, the print head array position and orientation relative to the substrate surface, determining, in response to the print head array position and orientation relative to the substrate surface and the set of color matrix maps, a set of pixels to be applied by the print head array to the substrate surface, and generating instructions to the print head array, in response to the set of pixels to be applied, to actuate particular nozzles in the print head array to apply the set of pixels to the substrate surface. | 10-16-2008 |
20080259105 | Current Control Circuit for Micro-Fluid Ejection Device Heaters - Current control circuit for micro-fluid ejection heaters. In one embodiment, the current through a heater in a micro-fluid ejection device may be monitored and regulated to maintain a particular value or range of values. In such an embodiment, the heater current may be monitored and compared to a reference value. A signal may be induced based upon the divergence of the beater current from the value and the signal may be applied to the logic switch for the monitored heater. The logic switch may regulate the current through the heater based upon the induced signal. As a result of the regulation of the current, the induced signal may dynamically change thereby allowing fast regulation of the heater current. | 10-23-2008 |
20080273050 | PRINTING UP TO EDGES OF PRINTING PAPER WITHOUT PLATEN SOILING - This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head | 11-06-2008 |
20080278526 | Ink jet printer with expanded validation print zone - An ink jet printer has two print cartridges. For example, one cartridge can carry black ink and the other red ink. Both cartridges are used to print on a receipt with a narrow print zone of, for example, 2.5 inches. Only the black cartridge is used to print on a cut sheet for validation purposes. By lengthening the time that the print head of the black cartridge is actuated to spray ink, a wider print zone (e.g., 3.5 inches) can be provided for the cut sheet. | 11-13-2008 |
20080284804 | Means for Higher Speed Inkjet Printing - A method and apparatus for subdividing and printing regions of a substrate with multiple print heads or multiple print head assemblies which substantially decreases printing time is described. The method includes a feathering method which reduces overlap artifacts which is useful in any printing situation where adjacent regions are printed that could be misaligned, offset, or have slightly different colors. | 11-20-2008 |
20080284805 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer including a feeding unit configured to perform repeated feeding of a medium for a predetermined feeding distance in a predetermined feeding direction, a print head configured to print on a printing surface of the medium in a printing zone set each time the feeding unit performs a feeding of the medium for the feeding distance, and a printing pass setting unit configured to set the printing zone containing a plurality of printing passes. The printing pass setting unit sets the printing passes such that boundaries between the printing passes extend diagonally relative to a width direction of the medium that is perpendicular to the feeding direction. The printing pass setting unit can set the printing passes such that the boundaries between the printing passes extend in waveform in the width direction with oscillation of the waveform being in the feeding direction. | 11-20-2008 |
20080297547 | FLUID EJECTOR INCLUDING A DROP SIZE SYMBOL, A METHOD OF DISPOSING A DROP SIZE SYMBOL IN A FLUID EJECTOR, AND AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCLUDING A MARKING FLUID EJECTOR WITH A DROP SIZE SYMBOL - A fluid ejector includes a drop size symbol that is based on the fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The drop size symbol is formed by comparing the fluid ejector's drop size to the one or more fixed drop sizes. An image forming device includes a marking fluid ejector that includes a drop size symbol based on the marking fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The image forming device forms an image based on the drop size symbol by determining the drop size symbol and then either selecting a marking fluid look-up table based on the drop size symbol, or forming an image correction factor based on the drop size symbol. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297548 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE AND PRINTHEAD - An element substrate capable of obtaining a high-quality printed image for a long period. The element substrate has a plurality of heaters, driving elements each of which is provided in correspondence with each of the plurality of heaters to selectively drive the plurality of heaters, an input terminal to receive a driving mode selection signal, and a block selection circuit which time-divisionally drives, in blocks of different timings, heaters in each of a plurality of groups each including a predetermined number of heaters and driving elements. The element substrate includes a logic circuit which time-divisionally drives the heaters in the group when the selection signal input from the input terminal is a signal for selecting a first driving mode, and simultaneously drives all heaters in the group when the selection signal is a signal for selecting a second driving mode. | 12-04-2008 |
20080303849 | Enhanced Communications Protocol For Improved Modularity In A Micro-Fluid Ejection Device - Methods and apparatus for improving modularity in a micro-fluid ejection device and for providing instruction data to a plurality of data handling devices within a micro-fluid ejection device. The method includes generating device data and appending an address to the device data to generate instruction data. The address typically indicates at least one data handling device within the micro-fluid ejection device for which the device data is intended. The instruction data is provided to a plurality of data handling devices including at least one data controller. The data controller is operated to decode the address from the instruction data and select at least one data handling device to receive the device data based upon the decoded address. The device data is thereby input into each selected data handling device and subsequently used to operate the micro-fluid ejection device. | 12-11-2008 |
20080303850 | FLUID EJECTOR INCLUDING A DROP SIZE SYMBOL, A METHOD OF DISPOSING A DROP SIZE SYMBOL IN A FLUID EJECTOR, AND AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCLUDING A MARKING FLUID EJECTOR WITH A DROP SIZE SYMBOL - A fluid ejector includes a drop size symbol that is based on the fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The drop size symbol is formed by comparing the fluid ejector's drop size to the one or more fixed drop sizes. An image forming device includes a marking fluid ejector that includes a drop size symbol based on the marking fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The image forming device forms an image based on the drop size symbol by determining the drop size symbol and then either selecting a marking fluid look-up table based on the drop size symbol, or forming an image correction factor based on the drop size symbol. | 12-11-2008 |
20080316237 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CONTROL THE SAME - An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a print head, an ink supply unit, an ink supply flow path connecting the ink supply unit and the print head, an ink supply amount detector which detects the amount of ink supplied through the ink supply flow path, and a controller which controls a maintenance operation of the print head according to the amount of supplied ink detected by the ink supply amount detector. The controller determines the states of nozzles of the print head according to the amount of supplied ink and cleans the nozzles using supersonic waves or performs wiping and spitting of the nozzles, thereby achieving efficient maintenance. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316238 | Liquid Discharge Apparatus and Liquid Discharge Method - A liquid discharge apparatus. Each of a plurality of first nozzle rows includes a plurality of nozzles disposed in a predetermined direction that discharge cyan or magenta liquid. Each of a plurality of second nozzle rows includes a plurality of nozzles disposed in the predetermined direction that discharge yellow liquid. The number of second nozzle rows is smaller than the number of first nozzle rows. The first nozzle rows form cyan or magenta dots at pixels on a medium. The second nozzle rows form yellow dots at pixels whose number is smaller than the number of pixels at which the first dots are formed. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316239 | INKJET PRINTHEAD INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A printhead IC is provided which has an array of nozzles, drive circuitry for receiving print data and sending drive pulses of electrical energy to the array of nozzles in accordance with the print data, a temperature sensor connected to the drive circuitry to adjust the drive pulse profile in response to the temperature sensor output and open actuator test circuitry for selectively disabling the actuators when they receive a drive signal while comparing the resistance of the resistive heater to a predetermined threshold to assess whether the actuator is defective. During use, the temperature sensor can be de-activated after a period of use. | 12-25-2008 |
20090002413 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SPITTING METHOD THEREFOR - An inkjet image forming apparatus and a spitting method therefor. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes: a printhead including a plurality of nozzles arranged across a printing medium transfer path; a maintenance unit including a spitting groove to receive ink ejected during a spitting operation of the printhead; and a controlling unit to control the printhead so that spitting is performed by groups of the nozzles, when each group faces the spitting groove. | 01-01-2009 |
20090002414 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which prints using a printhead for discharging ink by a plurality of scanning operations of the printhead including forward scanning and reverse scanning in a single area of a print medium. In the inkjet printing apparatus, the ink discharge amount is acquired for each unit area obtained by dividing the end area of the single area in the scanning direction. The acquired ink discharge amount of each unit area is compared with a predetermined threshold. The printing ratios of the plurality of scanning operations are controlled to set the printing ratio of the final scanning operation lower than the average one of the remaining scanning operations in a unit area where the ink discharge amount is larger than the predetermined threshold. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009542 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISCHARGING LIQUID - A liquid discharging apparatus, which discharges liquid from at least one nozzle on the basis of data, which includes a controller. When the controller is in a standby state and no liquid is being discharged from the at least one nozzle on the basis of the data, the controller performs a drawing operation wherein the liquid is drawn into the nozzle in a direction that is opposite to the direction that the ink is discharged from the at least one nozzle in order to form a space at a distal end portion of the at least one nozzle where no liquid is present. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009543 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus and Liquid Ejecting Method - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles that eject a liquid, a sensor that detects a defective nozzle in which defective ejection occurs when the liquid is to be ejected, a recovery mechanism that recovers the defective nozzle to its normal state so as to enable the liquid to be normally ejected from the defective nozzle, and a control unit that, when a defective nozzle is detected, compares a method, in which the liquid is ejected after the defective nozzle is recovered to its normal state by the recovery mechanism, with a method, in which the liquid is ejected without using the defective nozzle, while the defective nozzle is not recovered to its normal state, and controls the liquid to be ejected by using the method having a shorter processing time. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009544 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING FLUID - A fluid ejecting apparatus including a head that ejects fluid, a first fluid storing section for storing the fluid that is located below the head, a second fluid storing section for storing the liquid that is located above the first fluid storing section, a pumping mechanism capable of moving the fluid from the first fluid storing section to the second fluid storing section through the head, and a controller that alternates between a first control mode wherein the pumping mechanism moves the fluid from the first fluid storing section to the second fluid storing section and a second control mode in which the fluid is allowed to flow from the second fluid storing section to the first fluid storing section through the head. Upon receiving an instruction to turn off the power, the controller shifts to the second control mode and then turns off the power. | 01-08-2009 |
20090015608 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Auxiliary nozzles to be used as substitutes for main nozzles formed near an ink feedhole in a print head. The main nozzles are used to perform printing when such nozzles are not defective. When a main nozzle has become defective and cannot normally jet ink, a corresponding spare nozzle is used to perform printing in place of the main nozzle. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015609 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An inkjet image forming apparatus includes an ink detection unit including a light-receiving unit and a light-emitting unit facing each other. The ink detection unit is located under a printer head including several nozzles discharging the ink. The controller transmits an enable signal to the ink detection unit, so that the ink is detected by the enable signal while ink droplets enter and pass the optical signal. The ink detection unit alternately performs a first operation to detect the ink by the enable signal and a second operation to non-detect the ink. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015610 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME SYSTEM - The optimal number of print passes and a head-to-platen distance are set according to a content of an image to be printed and the user's request (emphasis is put on quality or speed, etc.) to thereby appropriately meet the needs for higher image quality and higher productivity and to perform printing with high reliability. To this end, it is made possible to select whether to execute processing for issuing an instruction to set the number of print passes and the head-to-platen distance according to discrimination of the content of the image. When the execution of the processing is selected, the number of print passes and the head-to-platen distance are appropriately set according to the content of the image (duty, etc.). Meanwhile, when it is not selected, the image is printed by one-pass print with the head-to-platen distance set larger, regardless of the content of the image. | 01-15-2009 |
20090021543 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method and a printing apparatus of the present invention are capable of performing both a vertical registration adjustment in which a range of nozzles used for printing is limited and a vertical registration adjustment in which print data is shifted. More specifically, switching is performed between the vertical registration adjustment in which a range of nozzles used for printing is limited and the vertical registration adjustment in which print data is shifted, in accordance with conditions such as a printing mode, types of printing medium, and the like. Thereby, an improvement of a throughput by a printing apparatus and an improvement of an image quality printed by the printing apparatus can be together achieved. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021544 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and controlling method thereof - There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including a head unit in which a plurality of heads in each of which a plurality of nozzles are disposed in a direction perpendicular to a recording medium transport direction are provided in the direction perpendicular to the recording medium transport direction, a control unit for driving the head unit based on image information and for performing a liquid ejection timing control for ejecting liquid from the nozzle to a recording medium for every nozzle, and an inclination amount storage unit in which inclination information of the head unit is preliminarily stored. The control unit has a calculator for calculating the most appropriate ejection timing with respect to the recording medium transport direction for every nozzle of each head from the image information and the inclination information of the head unit. | 01-22-2009 |
20090027428 | Inkjet Apparatus and Inkjet Control Method - The inkjet apparatus of the present invention includes an inkjet section, a determination section, an inkjet control section, and the like, and the inkjet section is movable in a main scanning direction Y and a sub scanning direction X relative to a medium. In case where a plurality of pixel print targets ( | 01-29-2009 |
20090033694 | PRINTER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARTIFACT FREE AND BORDERLESS PRINTING - A system and a method for improving the quality of prints using a print mask for a printer having at least one printhead with a plurality of dot forming elements arranged in complementary dot forming element groups by section to prevent artifacts by compensating for bad dot forming elements on a print head. The method including the steps of identifying each bad dot forming element, identifying and setting up a threshold for each complementary dot forming element group corresponding to one or more bad dot forming elements, and creating a compensation print mask having one or more intermediate print sections by reassigning printing duty cycle from the bad dot forming elements to their respective complementary dot forming elements before printing using the compensation print mask. | 02-05-2009 |
20090033695 | Printheads - Embodiments of a printhead are disclosed. | 02-05-2009 |
20090033696 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A pattern formation method includes discharging a functional liquid substance having a functional material to an object, and irradiating the functional liquid substance with light emitted from a light source thereby to form a pattern of a functional film on the object. In this method, when the thickness of the functional liquid substance on an optical axis of the light is L and the absorption coefficient of the functional liquid substance for the light is α, the thickness and the absorption coefficient are set so as to satisfy an equation (1): | 02-05-2009 |
20090033697 | PRINTING UP TO EDGES OF PRINTING PAPER WITHOUT PLATEN SOILING - Images are printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. According to the present invention, an area R for ejecting image-forming ink droplets is specified for a region lying beyond the edges of a printing paper P. The pixels of an external upper edge portion Rfp extending beyond the upper edge Pf are recorded solely by the nozzles disposed opposite the downstream slot of the platen. An internal upper edge portion Rfq, which is disposed downstream of the external upper edge portion Rfp, is recorded solely by the nozzles disposed opposite the downstream slot. When dots are recorded, blank spaces are prevented from forming in the edge portions of the printing paper, and ink droplets are prevented from depositing on the platen when the printing paper P deviates from its intended position, provided the upper edge of the printing paper P remains on the inside of the external upper edge portion Rfp or internal upper edge portion Rfq. The external upper edge portion Rfp and internal upper edge portion Rfq are selected such that their dimensions in the sub-scanning direction remains substantially the same when different recording systems or recording densities are used for the pixels, provided the printing paper used for recording the images has the same dimensions and is composed of the same material. | 02-05-2009 |
20090046116 | PRINT ARCHITECTURE FOR DRIVING MULTIPLE PRINT HEADS - A system architecture is provided for a fixed-head mailpiece printer. The printer includes at least two laterally and longitudinally-spaced print heads for depositing ink on a face surface of a mailpiece. The print system architecture includes print application software or software program code operative to render print image data into a plurality of logical rectangular bitmap print buffers. Further, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) remaps each of the logical rectangular bitmap print buffers into one of the print heads based upon its spatial position relative to the mailpiece. Furthermore, the FPGA is operative to control the deposition of ink from the print heads based upon the print image data contained in the print buffers. Moreover, the FPGA minimizes processing time associated with print image rendering to achieve enhanced print system throughput. | 02-19-2009 |
20090051716 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE ACCESS PORTS IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE - A method is provided of controlling communication between multiple ports in a microfluidic device. The method includes the step of providing a channel network in a microfluidic device. The channel network including a first channel having a first input port and an output port. The first channel is filled with a fluid and a first output droplet is deposited on the output port. The first output droplet has a radius of curvature. The first output droplet flows toward the first input port in response to placement of a first input droplet having a radius of curvature greater than the radius of curvature of the first output droplet on the first input port. The first input droplet flows toward the output port in response to the first input droplet having a radius of curvature less than the radius of curvature of first output droplet. | 02-26-2009 |
20090051717 | Ejection condition adjustment apparatus, droplet ejecting apparatus, and ejection condition adjustment method and program - An ejection condition adjustment apparatus includes a unit configured to set, in a case where a large head to be driven includes a plurality of small heads each having a number of orifices and the small heads are disposed adjacent to one another on the large head such that regions of the respective small heads where the orifices are provided partially overlap one another, a range of orifices to be used and an ejection timing for the individual small heads such that positional shifts between adjoining ones of patterns formed by the respective small heads are minimized. | 02-26-2009 |
20090051718 | METHOD FOR FORMING DOTS, METHOD FOR FORMING IDENTIFICATION CODE, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - An acceptable duration is defined as the time necessary for allowing the diameter of a microdroplet that has reached the substrate to become a maximum acceptable droplet diameter. A scanning speed is set in such a manner that the microdroplet that has been received by the substrate reaches a radiating position from a droplet receiving position immediately after the acceptable duration has passed since reception of the microdroplet by the substrate. A laser beam is radiated onto the microdroplet immediately after the acceptable duration has passed since the reception of the microdroplet Fb by the substrate, or when the microdroplet is located at the radiating position. | 02-26-2009 |
20090058896 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - Embodiments of a fluid ejection device are disclosed. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058897 | INKJET PRINT HEAD AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An inkjet print head and an inkjet image forming apparatus having the same includes photo sensors are mounted on the inkjet print head to sense whether or not nozzles normally discharge ink and to sense missing nozzles whenever the ink is printed on a recording paper, thereby rapidly and correctly sensing the missing nozzles. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058898 | INKJET PRINTING HEAD SUBSTRATE AND INKJET PRINTING HEAD HAVING THE SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides an inkjet printing head substrate capable of storing a large volume of information by increasing a number of fuses without enlarging a space for arranging fuses capable of storing information according to the cutting or non-cutting of fuses and a selection circuit thereof. For that purpose, two fuses are connected to a set of a drive element and a selection circuit. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058899 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - There is disclosed a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle and ejecting a liquid from the nozzle, a liquid supply passage which is connected with the liquid ejecting head, and through which the liquid is supplied to the liquid ejecting head, a gas discharge passage which is connected with the liquid supply passage at two different places, and through which a gas in the liquid supply passage is discharged, a gas-permeable film which is disposed at one of the two different places, constitutes a wall which separates the liquid supply passage and the gas discharge passage from each other, and allows gases to pass therethrough but does not allow liquids to pass therethrough, a shut-off valve which is disposed at the other of the two different places, and selectively placeable in an open state to communicate the liquid supply passage and the gas discharge passage with each other and a closing state to disconnect the communication between the liquid supply passage and the gas discharge passage, and a sucking device which lowers an internal pressure of the gas discharge passage by sucking the gas from the gas discharge passage. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058900 | PULSE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, AND PULSE GENERATION METHOD - A pulse generation apparatus has an encoder that outputs an encoder signal in a cycle corresponding to each driven operation of a driving target medium by a drive amount per unit. The pulse generation apparatus generates a pulse on the basis of the encoder signal that is outputted by the encoder. The amplitude of the signal changes in a cyclic manner. The pulse generation apparatus has a switching unit that receives the encoder signal and then switches either the amplitude of the signal or a threshold depending on the driven speed of the driving target medium so as to change the number of signal waves that exceed the threshold depending on the driven speed of the driving target medium. The pulse generation apparatus also has a pulse generating unit that generates a pulse having the same cycle as that of the signal wave that exceeds the threshold. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058901 | PRINT ENGINE HAVING PRINTHEAD CONTROL MODES - A print engine is provided which has a printhead capable of printing a maximum of n channels of print data and a controller. Each channel is associated with rows of printing nozzles of the printhead. The controller controls the printhead to print in: a first mode, in which the printhead receives from the controller, print data for a first number of the channels; and a second mode, in which the printhead receives from the controller, print data for a second number of the channels less than the first number and dummy data for a portion of each nozzle row associated with the remaining number of the channels. The first number is less than n. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058902 | METHOD OF DROP EJECTION USING WIDE HEATER ELEMENTS IN PRINTHEAD - A method of ejecting drops of an ejectable liquid from a printhead is provided. The printhead has nozzles, a bubble forming chambers and heater elements. Each heater element is an elongate strip suspended between corresponding electrodes on opposite sides of the chambers and having a cross-section with a lateral dimension different than that of each other strip of the corresponding chamber and at least triple the thickness of that strip. The thickness of each strip is less than 0.3 microns. The heater elements and associated electrodes are arranged so that the electrodes are non-coincident with the electrodes of the other heater elements. The method includes heating the heater elements above the boiling point of the bubble forming liquid to form a gas bubble that causes ejection of a drop of an ejectable liquid from the nozzle, and supplying a volume of the ejectable liquid equivalent to the ejected drop. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058903 | PRINTER CONTROLLER CONFIGURED TO COMPENSATE FOR DEAD PRINTHEAD NOZZLES - A printer controller for compensating for an inoperative nozzle in a printhead is provided. The printhead includes a plurality of nozzles associated with each pixel to be printed, the printer controller being operative to control one or more operative nozzles associated with the same pixel as the inoperative nozzle to increase the amount of printing substance expelled by the one or more operative nozzles. | 03-05-2009 |
20090066736 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, AND PRELIMINARY DISCHARGE CONTROL METHOD - On performing a predetermined printing operation, whether or not, among a plurality of printing elements, only a part of the printing elements are applied is detected. If it is judged that only the part of the printing elements are used, a judgment is made whether or not the preliminary discharge operation is performed based on the number of discharges for the part of the printing elements, and if it is not judged that only the part of the printing elements are used, a judgment is made whether or not the preliminary discharge operation is performed based on the number of discharges for all of the printing elements of the printing head. This eliminates an unnecessary preliminary discharge for non-printing elements even in a printing operation mode in which only a part of the printing elements are applied. | 03-12-2009 |
20090066737 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system - An image forming apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head jetting a liquid to form an image; a recovery mechanism discharging the liquid in the liquid jetting head to an external part to recover jetting performance of the liquid jetting head; a controller controlling an operation of the recovery mechanism; and an information obtaining section obtaining predetermined information, wherein the controller controls the recovery mechanism according to the predetermined information obtained by the information obtaining section. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073200 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a driving unit, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The driving unit is configured to move at least one of the holding unit and the printer head. The movement controller is configured to control the driving unit to move the holding unit and the printer head relatively so that a distance between the at least one ink nozzle and the surface to be printed is kept at a predetermined distance and so that the ink ejected from the at least one ink nozzle collides with the surface substantially perpendicularly. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a distance between the at least one ink nozzle and the surface to be printed. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073201 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - When a predetermined time T | 03-19-2009 |
20090073202 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - When completing an image in a predetermined area by an odd or even number of bidirectional printing scans, this invention makes it possible to suppress lines of image defects and density variations and thereby print a high-quality image at high speed. In completing an image by an odd number of bidirectional printing scans, the print data for small ink droplets and large ink droplets are thinned using the first and second thinning pattern. The first and second thinning pattern thin the print data for small ink droplets and large ink droplets so that a difference between the total print ratio of all forward printing scans of the odd number of scans and the total print ratio of all backward printing scans of the odd number of scans when the first thinning pattern is used differs from that when the second thinning pattern is used. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073203 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, AND DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An ink jet printing apparatus, an ink jet printing method, and a data generating apparatus are provided in which an image performance such as an abrasion resistance can be improved and a printing head can have a longer life by ejecting processing liquid at an appropriate time. The processing liquid is ejected, to a predetermined area on a printing medium in which the formation of a image by ink is completed, from a printing head in two or more scannings in five scannings of the printing heads. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073204 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INK JET PRINTING SYSTEM - The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus, an ink jet printing method, a data generation apparatus, a computer program, and an ink jet printing system by which a timing for ejecting a processing liquid can be changed to improve image performance of a printed image such as abrasion resistance, to provide the printing head with a longer life, and to improve a throughput. The processing liquid is ejected to a predetermined area on a printing medium, for which a formation of an image by ink is completed, in two or more scannings among five scannings of the printing head. When an amount of ejection data for ejecting the processing liquid in the fifth scanning for ejecting only the processing liquid is equal to or lower than a predetermined amount, the fifth scanning is not carried out. | 03-19-2009 |
20090085942 | Liquid Jetting Apparatus and Control Method for the Same - A liquid jetting apparatus to which a liquid container is attached, the container containing a liquid and having a first device, includes a processor, a first line, a second line, a controller and a connecting module. The processor executes a prescribed process in relation to the liquid container. The first line is for electrical connection to the first device. The second line is for electrical connection to the processor. The controller, in a first instance, accesses the first device via at least the first line and that, in a second instance, accesses the processor via the second line to have the processor execute the prescribed process. The connecting module, in the second instance, electrically sets the first line to a fixed voltage. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085943 | PRINTER HAVING SELF-REFERENCE MOUNTED PRINTING CARTRIDGE - A printer is provided with a body having a slot for removably receiving a printing cartridge and protrusions arranged in the slot to cooperate with a flat surface of a plurality of corners of the printing cartridge upon mounting of the printing cartridge to the printer. The printing cartridge has at least one printhead integrated circuit with a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles and a fluid distribution support mounting the printhead integrated circuit. The cooperation of the protrusions and corners provide information on the location of the nozzles. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085944 | PRINTER AND METHOD OF COMBINING INKJET PRINTING WITH THERMAL PRINTING - A printer and method of combining inkjet printing with thermal printing which optimizes use of both. The printer includes a thermal print head, an inkjet print head, and control circuitry for activating the thermal print head to print in a first area of a print medium and for activating the inkjet print head to print in a second area of the print medium. | 04-02-2009 |
20090091591 | Printing Systems And Methods For Generating Relief Images - Systems and methods for generating relief images are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a printing method for generating relief images may include transferring a plurality of ink layers one on top of the other on a substrate. The method may also include transferring at least one ink pixel on the plurality of ink layers. The method may also include outputting a relief image that appears differently based on a viewing angle of an observer. | 04-09-2009 |
20090091592 | Method of Inkjet Printing for Use in Point-Of-Sale Systems - This invention relates to a method of inkjet printing, in particular for use in POS systems. In particular the printing method according to the invention is of the thermal type. In order to obtain high speed printing, for example of 15-20 lines per second when printing text on a paper medium 60-80 mm wide (for example receipts), the drops of ink ejected during the printing operation advantageously have a relatively large volume, i.e. not less than approximately 100 picolitres (pl) and preferably between 100 and 200 pl. The ink used for applications in POS systems must quickly penetrate an extensive range of paper media. This requirement is satisfied by using an ink having a surface tension of not more than approximately 35 dyne/cm (mN/m). Problems of stagnation and dripping of the ink caused by the printing conditions are overcome through the use of a nozzle plate coated with a wetting-resistant layer of silicon carbide. This coating material has proved to have non-wettability properties which do not significantly deteriorate during a printing operation over a long period of time. | 04-09-2009 |
20090091593 | Droplet ejection - A droplet ejection device includes a carriage capable of moving back and forth, a droplet ejection head which is mounted on the carriage and has a plurality of nozzles, and a droplet receiver positioned capable of receiving liquid ejected from the nozzles. The nozzles which eject a droplet of a second liquid is positioned, in a flushing region, farthest from a printing region compared to the other nozzles. The droplet ejection device is configured to move the carriage after flushing operation so that the nozzles for ejecting a droplet of the second liquid are brought to a position where the nozzles face a part of the droplet receiver where a droplet of the first liquid has been received. | 04-09-2009 |
20090096821 | LIQUID DROPLET DRYING METHOD OF LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet drying method of a liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes discharging liquid droplets from respective nozzles of a discharging head onto a substrate, the droplets being discharged from the nozzles at timings different from each other; and drying the liquid droplets by irradiating a laser beam to the liquid droplets vertically to a discharging direction of the liquid droplets while the droplets are flying toward the substrate, the laser beam being irradiated in a layout direction of the nozzles of the discharging head. | 04-16-2009 |
20090096822 | Printer With Rotated Ejection Nozzle Correction - A printer is provided having a printhead and controller. The printhead has a plurality of printhead modules each having a plurality of ejection nozzles. The nozzles of at least one of the printhead modules is rotationally displaced relative to the other printhead modules. The controller communicates ejection data to the ejection nozzles in accordance with a cumulative correction factor for each printhead module, including printhead modules having non-rotationally displaced nozzles, to at least partially compensate for the rotational displacement. | 04-16-2009 |
20090102874 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus including: a medium-convey mechanism; a recording head; an image sensor configured to perform an image-pickup operation for a recording medium; an image-pickup controlling section which controls the image sensor to perform the image-pickup operation; a liquid-ejection-failure recognizing section which recognizes presence and absence of a liquid ejection failure on the basis of a portion of image data obtained by the image-pickup operation, which portion corresponds to the image; a medium-position recognizing section which recognizes a position of the recording medium relative to the recording head, on the basis of a portion of the image data which includes data corresponding to an outline of the recording medium; a medium-position judging section which judges whether the position is normal or not; and a recording data correcting section which corrects, where the position is not normal, recording data such that an image to be recorded becomes proper. | 04-23-2009 |
20090109253 | Controlling Fire Signals - Embodiments for controlling fire signals are disclosed. | 04-30-2009 |
20090115805 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and image forming method - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit, a movement mechanism, and a control section. The head unit has along a first direction a plurality of heads, in which a plurality of nozzles that eject a liquid onto a medium are lined up in the first direction, and the head unit forms a single raster line by ejecting the liquid while performing m number of movements relative to the medium in a second direction, which intersects the first direction. A width of the head unit in the first direction is greater than a width of the medium in the first direction. The movement mechanism causes the head unit to perform a plurality of movements relative to the medium alternately in the second direction and the first direction. The control section forms an image having a resolution that is n times a pitch of the nozzles, by forming a plurality of the raster lines by the plurality of relative movements of the head unit. Further, the control section sets a total movement amount of the head unit in the first direction when the head unit performs the plurality of relative movements, larger than an effective nozzle width of one of the heads in the first direction multiplied by (m×n−1), and smaller than the effective nozzle width×(m×n). Furthermore, the control section forms the image by setting respective movement amounts of the head unit in the first direction when the head unit performs the plurality of relative movements, larger than the effective nozzle width. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115806 | BOUNDARY VALUE TABLE OPTIMIZING DEVICE, BOUNDARY VALUE TABLE SETTING DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In a method of substantially correcting gradation values in a gradation correcting unit, the number of reproducible gradations is substantially reduced. Selection information of a boundary value table for multi-value error diffusion is stored, by ejection condition, in an information storing unit of a liquid ejecting head that can represent one pixel with a large number of liquid droplets. When the liquid ejecting head is mounted, selection information matching an ejection condition is read out and a boundary value table corresponding to the selection information is set for reference by a half toning unit. Consequently, the boundary value table is optimized to correct a gradation characteristic without substantially reducing the number of reproducible gradations. | 05-07-2009 |
20090135217 | SELECTING PRINTING MASKS OPTIMIZED FOR LINE FEATURES AND AREA FILL FEATURES OF IMAGE DATA - For each totally black pixel of image data to be printed using a fluid-ejection printing device, it is determined whether the pixel is part of a line feature or an area fill feature of the image data. Where the pixel is part of a line feature, a first printing mask selected that is optimized for printing line features. Where the pixel is part of an area fill feature, a second printing mask is selected that is optimized for printing area fill features. Each mask specifies a number of fluid droplets to be printed and positions where the fluid droplets are to be printed. The selected mask is applied to the pixel. The pixel is printed using the mask that has been applied. The fluid-ejection printing device prints the pixel by ejecting the number of fluid droplets specified by the mask at the positions specified by the mask. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135218 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus, includes: a black ink ejecting portion configured to eject a black ink containing a self-dispersion pigment; color ink ejecting portions configured to eject, respectively, a cyan ink, a magenta ink and a yellow ink which contain a polymer emulsion containing a polymer fine particle containing a coloring material which is insoluble in water or slightly soluble in water; and a recording-controlling unit configured to control recording. When the recording medium is optically transparent and is provided, on a transparent base material thereof, with an ink accepting layer, the recording-controlling unit controls recording on the recording medium such that the color ink ejecting portion is used for recording a monochrome image and a color image which has a plurality of colors, leaving the black ink ejecting portion substantially free from being used. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141057 | LIQUID-DISCHARGE-FAILURE DETECTING APPARATUS, AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A liquid-discharge-failure detecting apparatus includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. The light-emitting element emits a laser beam in a direction that intersects with a direction in which a droplet of liquid is discharged. The beam is elliptical in cross section. The light-receiving element receives a scattered light generated by scattering of the laser beam by the droplet. The light-receiving element is externally adjacent to a circumference of the beam at a position where a beam diameter of the beam is small. | 06-04-2009 |
20090153604 | Printing Device and Method Using The Same - A printing device including a processor, a print-head, a carriage, a mask and a sensor is provided. The processor controls the operation of the printing device. The print-head fixedly configured in the printing device prints on an object. The carriage includes a fixing device for fixing the object. The carriage carries the object fixed thereon and moves relative to the print-head. The mask placed on the object has a hole for defining a printable area of the object. The sensor senses to obtain information including a position of the carriage and the printable area of the object. The information is provided for the print-head to print on the object within the printable area while the object is moved to below the print-head. | 06-18-2009 |
20090153605 | DOUBLE-SIDED PRINTING SYSTEM - A method for double-sided printing may include ejecting printing fluid from a fluid ejector to a platen configured to receive print media, the platen supporting a nonabsorbent substrate. In any sequence, a first print media side and a second print media side may be printed by ejecting printing fluid from the fluid ejector to the first print media side, and contacting the second print media side with the nonabsorbent substrate to transfer printing fluid from the nonabsorbent substrate to the second print media side. A method for double-side printing may further include increasing the contact between the second print media side with the nonabsorbent substrate to increase transfer of printing fluid. | 06-18-2009 |
20090160890 | HEAD UNIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - Provided herein is a head unit arrangement method for arranging a plurality of head units in a liquid droplet ejection device that plots an image in a matrix form with functional liquid droplets in a number n of colors by performing the number n of primary scans and a number (n−1) of secondary scans. The head unit arrangement method includes evaluating liquid droplet ejection performance of each of the head units based on an inspection result of a volume of liquid droplet ejection from each of the functional liquid droplet ejection heads to arrange two of the head units that exhibit the lowest liquid droplet ejection performance at both ends in the Y-axis direction. | 06-25-2009 |
20090167797 | PRINTING SYSTEM FOR DEPOSITING LAYERS OF MATERIAL TO FORM 3-D OBJECTS - A device for depositing layers of material to form three dimensional objects using a plurality of printheads that can print multiple layers simultaneously and different materials into the same layer, wherein some of the printheads can be maintained at a temperature that differs from the operating temperature of the other printheads. | 07-02-2009 |
20090179929 | PRINTHEAD CARTRIDGE PRIMING PROTOCOL - A method of priming a printhead cartridge upon installation in a printer, the printhead cartridge having a printhead with a nozzle face defining an array of nozzles for ejecting ink on to a media substrate fed past the printhead in a media feed direction, by providing a printer with at least three ink tanks for storing the inks of different colour, the printer also having a cradle for supporting the printhead cartridge adjacent a media feed path, a fluid interface in fluid communication with the ink tanks, and a latch for securing the printhead cartridge in the cradle, the latch being movable between an open position where access to the cradle is unobstructed, and a closed position where access to the cradle is obstructed, placing the printhead cartridge in the cradle while the latch is in the open position, the printhead cartridge having a fluid coupling positioned to align with the fluid interface when placed in the cradle, moving the latch to the closed position to secure the printhead cartridge in cradle, providing a mechanical linkage between the latch and the fluid interface such that the fluid interface sealingly engages the fluid coupling upon moving the latch to the closed position and, priming the printhead with ink from all of the ink tanks. | 07-16-2009 |
20090179930 | PRINTHEAD PRIMING PROTOCOL - A method of priming a printhead in an inkjet printer, the printhead having a nozzle face defining an array of nozzles for ejecting ink on to a media substrate fed past the printhead in a media feed direction, by providing a pad having a contact face dimensioned so that it can encompass all the nozzles in the array, moving the pad such that the contact face engages the nozzle face to cover the array of nozzles, forcing ink into the printhead under pressure until ink flows out the nozzles in the array and, withdrawing the pad such that the contact face disengages the nozzle face. | 07-16-2009 |
20090179931 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGE METHOD - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head ( | 07-16-2009 |
20090179932 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID IN LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A printer has a carriage on which a recording head and pumps are mounted. An air supply device and ink cartridges are provided in a frame of the printer. The pumps are connected to the air supply device with an air supply tube. Each pump is connected to corresponding one of the ink cartridges with an ink supply tube. Based on actuation of a drive mechanism of the air supply device, air is supplied from the air supply device to the pumps. Based on changes in the pressure of the air, each pump draws ink from the corresponding ink cartridge and supplies the ink to the recording head. This permits the carriage to reciprocate in a reliable manner. | 07-16-2009 |
20090184992 | PRINTING METHOD, MEDIUM DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method includes the steps of: emitting light from a light-emitting section of an optical sensor toward a support member for supporting a medium, the support member being provided with an ink collecting section for collecting ink that has been ejected from an ink ejecting section and that has landed outside of the medium; changing a threshold value based on a signal that is output from the optical sensor in correspondence with an intensity of light reflected by the support member and received by a light-receiving section of the optical sensor; and detecting the medium by comparing the signal that is output from the optical sensor and the threshold value that has been changed. | 07-23-2009 |
20090189933 | Nozzle missing determining device for liquid ejecting apparatus , liquid ejecting apparatus, and method of determining nozzle missing - A nozzle missing determining device that determines a nozzle missing state of a liquid ejecting apparatus, the nozzle missing determining device determines whether all the nozzles having predetermined positional relationship are non-ejection nozzles based on a test result data, the predetermined positional relationship includes positional relationship of nozzles of which dots that are formed by a same type of liquid are next to each other in accordance with the determined record mode. | 07-30-2009 |
20090189934 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by scanning the recording medium with a recording head for discharging ink includes a thinning unit configured to thin data for discharging ink by the recording head on a plurality of areas formed by dividing scanning regions including at least a first scanning region and a second scanning region to be recorded each by one scan of the recording head in the scan direction, and a recording head drive unit configured to discharge ink by driving the recording head based on data which has been thinned by the thinning unit, wherein a boundary between the areas in the first scanning region is located in a different position from that of a boundary between areas in the second scanning region, which is adjacent to the first scanning region, in the scan direction. | 07-30-2009 |
20090195574 | Method for Jetting Color Ink - A method for jetting color ink includes determining an initial voltage value of a nozzle, wherein the initial voltage value corresponds to a predetermined jetting volume of the nozzle; determining a maximum adjusting voltage value of the nozzle, wherein the maximum adjusting voltage value may correspond to an allowable error value of the predetermined jetting volume; combining the initial voltage value with an adjusting voltage value to obtain a jetting voltage, wherein the adjusting voltage value may be randomly selected between zero to the maximum adjusting voltage value; and jetting the color ink from the nozzle according to the jetting voltage onto a sub-pixel in a pixel. | 08-06-2009 |
20090201326 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP DRIVE SIGNAL - A method for setting up a condition for a drive signal in a liquid ejection head that includes a plurality of linearly-arranged nozzles and driving elements provided for each of the nozzles, includes: calculating an ejection rate for each nozzle relating to a supply of the drive signal under a predetermined condition by using a moving average; classifying the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of groups based on the ejection rate calculated by using the moving average of each nozzle; calculating a proper condition for the drive signal corresponding to each group based on a statistical value of the ejection rate relating to the group; and selecting one proper condition among proper conditions corresponding to the groups so as to set the selected proper condition for each nozzle. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207200 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISCHARGING LIQUID - A liquid discharging apparatus stores data transmitted at each timing of a predetermined period in first storage units for the each timing and discharges liquid droplets from nozzles based on the data stored in the first storage units for the each timing. The liquid discharging apparatus includes the nozzles and the first storage units, which are disposed for the nozzles for storing the data for controlling discharge of the liquid droplets from the nozzles. A second storage unit is used for storing the data transmitted at a timing. A data selecting unit is used for selecting whether to store the data transmitted at another timing after the timing in the first storage unit or to store the data stored in the second storage unit in the first storage unit when the data is stored in the first storage units at the each timing. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213151 | GLOSSY INKJET RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHODS THEREFOR - A manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating composition consisting of non-cationic components, wherein the non-cationic components comprise a binder and anionic particles of average particle size less than 2.5 microns, wherein the ink-receiving top layer comprises at least 50% of the total solids by weight, such that the water-soluble salt of a multivalent metal cation is able to diffuse into the ink-receiving top layer, the method further comprising drying the coating and optionally calendering the coating. Also disclosed is inkjet media made from such method and a method of printing using such inkjet media. | 08-27-2009 |
20090219312 | CUSTOM COLOR PRINTHEAD MODULE - A custom color printhead module comprises a mixing reservoir having a first opening and a second opening each configured to receive a first colored ink and a second colored ink and to mix the ink in the reservoir to form a custom colored ink. A first and a second reservoir supply valve are connected to the first and second opening, respectively, to open and close the first and second openings to enable and disable a flow of a first colored ink and a second colored ink into the mixing reservoir. A printhead is connected to the mixing reservoir to receive the custom colored ink from the mixing reservoir. A housing is configured to support the mixing reservoir and the printhead and configured for connection and removal from an imaging device. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219313 | METHOD, HEAD, AND APPARATUS FOR EJECTING LIQUID - A liquid ejecting method includes ejecting a liquid through a liquid ejecting head. Viscosity of the liquid falls within a range from 6 mPa·s to 15 mPa·s. The liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid, a pressure compartment that causes a change in the pressure of the liquid to eject the liquid through the nozzle, and a supply unit that communicates with the pressure compartment and supplies the liquid to the pressure compartment. A channel flow resistance of the supply unit ranges from equal to or higher than a channel flow resistance of the pressure compartment to equal to or lower than twice the channel flow resistance of the pressure compartment. A channel length of the pressure compartment ranges from equal to or longer than a channel length of the supply unit to equal to or shorter than twice the channel length of the supply unit, | 09-03-2009 |
20090219314 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting head configured to eject liquid droplets onto an ejected target element to form a of dots arranged at predetermined dot intervals in dot columns. The liquid droplet ejecting head has a flow passage unit including individual flow passages including a first individual flow passage and a second individual flow passage, at least one common liquid chamber in fluid communication with each individual flow passage; and a plurality of nozzles, including a first nozzle fluidly communicating with the first individual flow passage and a second nozzle fluidly communicating with the second flow passage. A control unit causes a liquid droplet to be ejected from the first nozzle, then moves the ejecting head less than the dot interval, then subsequently suspends the first nozzle from ejecting, and ejects a liquid droplet from the second nozzle. | 09-03-2009 |
20090231370 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INKJET PRINTER, AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing system includes an inkjet head and a decompressor. The inkjet head has nozzles configured to eject ink to a concavo-convex print surface a medium. The decompressor is configured to reduce a pressure in an area between the medium and the nozzles to be a pressure value lower than atmospheric pressure. | 09-17-2009 |
20090237428 | Printing apparatus - A printing apparatus, having at least two platens, at least one print head, at least one print head drive unit to drive the print head in a main scanning direction, at least two platen drive units to drive the platens in an auxiliary direction, at least one ink cartridge, at least two operation input units to be operated by an operator to instruct the printing apparatus to activate a first printing process and a second printing process respectively, and a cooperation controller system to control the print head, the print head drive unit, the first platen drive unit, and the second platen drive unit to behave in cooperation with one another so that the second printing process is started one of after and during the first printing process when an instruction to start the second printing process is entered whilst the first printing process is in progress, is provided. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237429 | Print data generating apparatus, method to generate print data, and computer usable medium therefor - A print data generating apparatus to generate print data to be used in a printing apparatus which is capable of ejecting ink drops in a specific color on one spot to form a pixel, including, a plurality of inkjet heads, each of which has nozzles aligned in line, a usable nozzle number determining unit to determine a number of at least one usable nozzle to be used, a count storing unit to store a count of ejecting operations of each nozzle to be performed, a usable nozzle extracting unit to extract the at least one usable nozzle among the grouped nozzles, and a print data generating unit to generate the print data, which controls the at least one usable nozzle to eject the ink. The usable nozzle extracting unit extracts at least one nozzle with a lower count of ejecting operations preferentially to be the at least one usable nozzle. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237430 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits on a recording medium a treatment liquid that insolubilizes or aggregates an ink; a recording head having nozzles which eject the ink; a non-uniformity correction amount storage device storing non-uniformity correction amount data which are prepared with respect to each of the plurality of nozzles and determined according to ejection characteristics of each of the plurality of nozzles; a data acquisition device which acquires density data of an image; a non-uniformity correction amount revision device which revises the non-uniformity correction amount data according to the density data related to another nozzle which ejects the ink that overlaps on the recording medium with the ink ejected by each of the plurality of nozzles, in such a manner that the non-uniformity correction amount data are determined; a non-uniformity correction device which corrects the density data according to the non-uniformity correction amount data; and an image forming device which controls the recording head according to the density data in such a manner that the image is formed on the recording medium. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237431 | INTELLIGENT WATERLESS PRINTING AND DYEING CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The invention relates to an intelligent waterless printing and dyeing control equipment and a control method thereof. The equipment comprise of: a control apparatus consisting of a programmable logic controller and a superior monitor computer and a robot, wherein, the programmable logic controller communicates with the superior monitor computer via MPI bus, receiving control signal coming from an operating panel and the robot via digitals input module for transmitting the control command to the robot, connecting with the dye conveyer apparatus and the printing and dyeing apparatus via the digitals output module; the superior monitor computer communicates with the servo controllers via CAN bus. The method includes the following steps that setting up Y-axis in cloth operational direction and X-axis in the direction which is perpendicular to the cloth operational direction to establish a plane of printing and dyeing; setting up two electronic cams which use a same virtual main shaft in the servo controllers; downloading edited jet painting formulation from the superior monitor computer into the servo controllers; completing the jet painting operation through the electronic cams. The invention achieves a purpose of screen-free, waterless and intellectualization, and has properties of an environment protection and reducing production cost due to no consumption of fresh water. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244125 | PRINTING TARGET COLOR SETTING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PICTURE COLOR TONE CONTROLLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The invention provides a printing target color setting method and apparatus and a picture color tone controlling method and apparatus and more particularly provides a printing target color setting method and apparatus and a picture color tone controlling method and apparatus capable of achieving control of the printing color tone more suitably taking dry down of ink into consideration. A color characteristic is acquired in advance which indicates a corresponding relationship between color measurement values obtained by measuring the color of a printed matter for color measurement having a color adjusted to a reference color before and after dry down of ink by means of a reference calorimeter and values of picture data of the printed matter for color measurement. Then, printing picture data to be used for printing are acquired, and then, based on the acquired color characteristic and the acquired printing picture data, target colors before and after dry down corresponding to a value of the printing picture data are set as target values for the color measurement values by an arbitrary calorimeter having a detection characteristic which coincides with that of the reference calorimeter. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244126 | Method of fabricating three-dimensional structure and method of manufacturing substrate with spacer - A method of fabricating a three-dimensional structure, the method comprises the steps of: depositing a droplet of curable ink on a substrate; curing the ink deposited on the substrate; and building up the ink in layers by repeatedly depositing a droplet of curable ink on the cured ink and curing the deposited ink, while doing at least one of a control of a contact angle between the droplet of ink to be deposited and cured ink at the landing position where the droplet of ink is to be deposited and a control of a volume of the droplet of ink to be deposited so as to satisfy the condition d | 10-01-2009 |
20090244127 | INK-JET PRINTER - An ink-jet printer performs the ordinary jetting operation in which the printing is performed on a printing area of the recording paper while transporting the recording paper frontwardly by transport rollers and the marking jetting operation in which a marking is formed at an edge portion of the recording paper. A control unit of the ink-jet printer allows nozzles to jet liquid droplets therefrom in the marking jetting operation, the liquid droplets having larger volumes as compared with those jetted in the ordinary jetting operation. Therefore, in the marking jetting operation, a larger amount of the ink liquid droplets can be permeated in the thickness direction of the recording paper as compared with the ordinary jetting operation. Accordingly, the marking, which can be easily confirmed from the side of the printing medium, is formed. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244128 | LIQUID EJECTING METHOD, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid ejecting method, including: ejecting a liquid from a liquid ejecting head, wherein the viscosity of the liquid is in a range from 6 mPa·s to 20 mPa·s, wherein the liquid ejecting head includes: nozzles which eject the liquid; a pressure chamber which applies a pressure variation to the liquid in order to eject the liquid from the nozzles; and a supply unit which communicates with the pressure chamber and supplies the liquid to the pressure chamber, and wherein the opening area of the nozzles on the side in which the liquid is ejected is or less of the opening area of the opening of the supply unit on the pressure chamber side. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244129 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - In a liquid droplet jetting mode of jetting liquid droplets, a controller controls a piezoelectric actuator to perform a liquid droplet jetting operation in which volume of a pressure chamber is decreased to a decreased volume smaller than a predetermined volume, and then the volume of the pressure chamber is increased to an increased volume greater than the predetermined volume, and the volume of the pressure chamber is again decreased to the decreased volume. On the other hand, in a warm-up mode of heating the liquid in the pressure chamber, the controller controls the piezoelectric actuator to perform at least one of a first warm-up operation in which the volume of the pressure chamber is changed repeatedly between the predetermined volume and the increased volume, and a second warm-up operation in which the volume of the pressure chamber is changed repeatedly between the predetermined volume and the decreased volume. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244130 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head disposed on a transport path of a target to eject liquid from nozzles at a nozzle forming surface, a target transport unit transporting the target on the basis of a driving force of a first driving source such that the target passes through a position opposite the nozzle forming surface on the transport path, a liquid receptor transport unit transporting a liquid receptor for receiving the liquid ejected from the nozzles as a waste liquid on the basis of a driving force of a second driving source such that the liquid receptor passes through the position opposite the nozzle forming surface on the transport path, and a control unit controlling a driving state of the second driving source in order to change a transport velocity of the liquid receptor by the liquid receptor transport unit while the liquid receptor is transported. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244131 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet recording head which includes a nozzle through which liquid is ejected; a pressure regulating unit which includes a liquid chamber that communicates with the nozzle and a gas chamber that is partitioned from the liquid chamber by a flexible film; and a liquid chamber pressure controlling device which controls a pressure of the liquid chamber to a predetermined negative pressure when carrying out back pressure control in which back pressure is applied to the liquid inside the nozzle, wherein: the flexible film causes change in the pressure of the liquid chamber when the liquid is supplied for at least a predetermined supply amount to the liquid chamber in a state where the gas chamber is open to air; and the liquid chamber pressure controlling device carries out the back pressure control after controlling the pressure of the liquid chamber to a predetermined value of positive pressure by supplying the liquid of at least the predetermined supply amount to the liquid chamber. | 10-01-2009 |
20090251499 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a printing head that ejects liquid to form dots on a recording medium; a head driving section that performs a main scanning for the printing head; a transporting section that performs a sub-scanning for the recording medium; an image forming section that forms an image, a first dot formation area and a second dot formation area; an overlap control section that performs overlap control for intermittently forming dots on the first and second dot formation areas so as to make the second dot formation area overlap with the first dot formation area and fill spaces between the dots intermittently formed on the first dot formation area; and a cancellation section that cancel the overlap control when a blank area exists in an image and a nozzle forming at least one of the first dot formation area and the second dot formation area. | 10-08-2009 |
20090256874 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - There is provided an image recording device, comprising first and second motors; first and second switch gears supported coaxially; first and second transmission gears, and wherein the first and second switch gears are provided to engage with corresponding ones of the first and second transmission gears in accordance with movement of the first and second switch gears in an axial direction, and the image recording device further comprises a control unit configured such that when the first switch gear and the second switch gear are moved in the axial direction, the control unit rotates one of the first and second motors by a first predetermined rotation amount, and starts the other of the first and second motors while the one of the first and second motors is rotated. The control unit rotates the other of the first and second motors by a second predetermined rotation amount. | 10-15-2009 |
20090256875 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PATTERNED THIN-FILM LAYER - A method for manufacturing a patterned thin-film layer includes the steps of: providing a substrate with a plurality of banks thereon, the plurality of banks defining a plurality of spaces; providing an ink-jet device comprising a plurality of nozzles for depositing ink therefrom; generating a jetting information about ink volume that each of the nozzles deposits into the respective spaces by a random method, the jetting information meeting ink volume deposited into each of the spaces is in a range from about 92.5% to about 107.5% of an average volume of ink in the spaces; making the nozzles to deposit ink into the respective spaces according to the jetting information; and solidifying the ink so as to form a plurality of patterned thin-film layers formed in the spaces. | 10-15-2009 |
20090256876 | PRINTER WITH PROCESSOR HAVING BUSED DECODING AND EXPANSION UNITS - A printer comprises a processor and a printhead. The processor comprises an address, data and control bus; an expander unit and a decoder unit each coupled to the bus and configured respectively to decompress a bi-level black layer and a contone layer of a page to be printed; and a halftoner/compositor unit which is coupled to the bus, and is configured to halftone the decompressed contone layer to form a bi-level cyan, yellow, magenta, and black (CYMK) layer and then composite the decompressed bi-level black layer over the bi-level CYMK layer to form a bi-level CYMK image of the page to be printed The printhead is interfaced to the processor and comprises a plurality of nozzles grouped in pods, the nozzles of a pod sharing a common ink reservoir. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262155 | COMPLEX SYSTEM HAVING INK-JET PRINTING FUNCTION AND TESTING FUNCTION, AND AN INK-JET PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A complex system having an ink-jet printing function and a testing function, and an ink-jet printing apparatus having the same is disclosed. The complex system includes a plurality of ink-jet heads for feeding ink to form a plurality of patterns on a printing object. A gantry is movable over the printing object where the plurality of ink-jet heads is mounted. In addition, the complex system includes at least one test device, being mounted on a back side of the gantry, for testing the status of the plurality of patterns formed on the printing object; and a controller for controlling respective operations of the plurality of ink-jet heads, the gantry, and at least one test device. | 10-22-2009 |
20090267977 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING HEAD ADJUSTING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having plural sub-heads, the sub-heads each including plural nozzles, each of the plural nozzles within a sub-head ejecting liquid droplets at the same time with respect to a medium on which an image is drawn, and the sub-heads being arranged in a width direction of the medium; a setting unit; and a rotation unit. The setting unit uses a timing when a predetermined sub-head of the plural sub-heads ejects liquid droplets as a reference to set timings when sub-heads other than the predetermined sub-head eject liquid droplets. The rotation unit uses a predetermined axis as a spindle to rotate and position the recording head in a plane parallel to a plane of the medium. | 10-29-2009 |
20090267978 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING JETTING A LIQUID DROPLET - A data generating circuit incorporated in an ASIC includes a first jetting mode memory circuit which stores information related to a plurality of first jetting modes, a time-sequence information memory circuit which stores time-sequence information of a jetting mode which associates one of the plurality of first jetting modes, for each jetting timing of the nozzle, a second jetting mode memory circuit which stores information related to a plurality of second jetting modes, which are more than types of the plurality of first jetting modes, and a jetting mode selecting circuit which selects a jetting mode at an arbitrary jetting timing among the plurality of second jetting modes, based on the first jetting modes at the arbitrary jetting timing and at least one of the previous and subsequent jetting timings. | 10-29-2009 |
20090273620 | Drop Detector System And Method With Light Collector - One aspect is a drop detection arrangement including a light source for projecting a light beam for scattering light off of an ejected drop. The arrangement includes a light collector configured to collect the scattered light off the ejected drop and a light detector coupled to the light collector and configured to process scattered light into an output signal. The arrangement includes a controller configured to receive the output signal from the light detector. The output signal is indicative of the condition of the ejected drop. | 11-05-2009 |
20090273621 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING OR RECOVERING NOZZLE FUNCTION FOR AN INKJET PRINTHEAD - A transducer capable of generating vibrational energy is positioned relative to an inkjet cartridge to impart a vibrational force to simultaneously vibrate at least a portion of each of a plurality of ink fluidic columns associated with a plurality of nozzles in a printhead of the inkjet cartridge to maintain or recover nozzle function. | 11-05-2009 |
20090273622 | Printhead Integrated Circuit With Low Operating Power - An inkjet printhead that has an array of droplet ejectors supported on a printhead integrated circuit (IC). Each of the droplet ejectors has a nozzle aperture and an actuator for ejecting a droplet of ink through the nozzle aperture. When printing 100% coverage at full print rate, each of the actuators has an average power consumption less than 1.5 mW. | 11-05-2009 |
20090273623 | Printhead With Low Power Actuators - An inkjet printhead that has an array of droplet ejectors supported on a printhead integrated circuit (IC). Each of the droplet ejectors has a nozzle aperture and an actuator for ejecting a droplet of ink through the nozzle aperture. When printing, each of the actuators has an average power consumption less than 150 mW during activation. | 11-05-2009 |
20090273624 | Head Driving Device, Inkjet Printer Comprising the Same, and Data Processing Method Thereof - A head driving device, an inkjet printer comprising the same and data processing method of an ink jet printer are provided, in which a nozzle driving unit turns on/off a plurality of thermal elements that correspond to a plurality of nozzles and heat ink discharged from the nozzles, a data processing unit processes printing data and outputs a nozzle select signal corresponding to an image to the nozzle driving unit; and a head logic unit receives the printing data externally, divides the printing data of one address group into a plurality of data groups, transmits the plurality of data groups to the data processing unit via different data buses corresponding to the plurality of data groups, respectively, and controls the data processing unit to process the divided printing data. Accordingly, an EMI characteristic between signals can be improved by lowering the data buses density in one area, and a data processing speed can be adjusted by dividedly processing printing data. | 11-05-2009 |
20090278873 | Printing control method for a serial inkjet printer, and a serial inkjet printer - A printing control method for a serial inkjet printer prevents paper dust that is dispersed by the air current produced by a vacuum platen from adhering to the ink nozzle area. An inkjet head that prints while moving along the width of the vacuum platen is moved to a position where the ink nozzle area is outside of a first or second retraction position separated a first distance from the first and second paper edge positions of the recording paper, and the recording paper is then advanced. Paper dust and other dust particulate does not adhere to the ink nozzle area when the paper is advanced because the ink nozzle area does not stop in the first and second paper edge positions of the recording paper where paper dust and other dust particulate can be made airborne by the air current produced by the vacuum platen. | 11-12-2009 |
20090278874 | Method of Inspecting the Nozzle Discharge State, A Discharge State Inspection Method, and a Fluid Discharge Device - A method of inspecting a discharge state of a nozzle prevents wrongly determining that discharge is normal even though fluid droplets are not discharged normally. In a fluid droplet discharge device such as an inkjet printer, a momentary induced current is produced when a charged ink droplet | 11-12-2009 |
20090284557 | HEAD UNIT - A head unit includes an input section that receives control data for controlling the discharging of liquid. The input section includes first and second input sections. First and second control data memorizing sections memorize first and second control data for a first and a second group of nozzles, respectively. Either a first or a second processing step is selectively performed. In the first processing step, first control data inputted from the first input section or the second input section is memorized in the first control data memorizing section, whereas second control data inputted from the same input section is memorized in the second control data memorizing section. In the second processing step, first control data inputted from the first input section is memorized in the first control data memorizing section, whereas second control data inputted from the second input section is memorized in the second control data memorizing section. | 11-19-2009 |
20090289973 | Inkjet-Recording Ink Set, Inkjet-Recording Ink and Inkjet Image-Recording Method - The present invention provides an inkjet-recording ink set including multiple kinds of liquid including at least first and second liquids, wherein the first liquid contains a metal compound dissolved therein, and at least one of the multiple kinds of liquid contains a polymerizable compound. The invention also provides an inkjet-recording ink including at least a high-boiling-point organic solvent and a metal compound. | 11-26-2009 |
20090289974 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - In order to stabilize a performance of a pump employed for processing in an inkjet printing apparatus such as sucking ink from a printing head with a low cost configuration and without the need of using any specific detecting unit, the following configuration is employed. Namely, a tube pump having a member with a curved surface aligned with a flexible tube for supporting the tube and a roller which moves while pressing (squeezing) the flexible tube is driven with a DC motor. To keep revolutions always constant, a current PWM control is employed for changing a power applied to the motor according to load fluctuations, and a phase of the roller is determined based on the current PWM value to manage a pressure generated by the pump and a discharge rate. | 11-26-2009 |
20090295851 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MATERIALS FOR TEMPORARY PRINTING AND INDICIA - Methods and/or systems for printing or otherwise evincing temporary indicia on media with disappearing inks are described along with suitable disappearing ink formulations and media constructions for executing the same. In particular embodiments, the methods and/or systems described employ a plurality of disappearing inks with different disappearing rates. In one embodiment, a barrier layer that is selectively used to cover a major surface of the media is employed to substantially block or otherwise regulate a rate of phase transitions (e.g., evaporation and/or sublimation) experienced by ink borne by the media. | 12-03-2009 |
20090295852 | ACOUSTIC INK JET RECORDER - An ink layer block ( | 12-03-2009 |
20090303269 | DROP EJECTION ASSEMBLY - A fluid drop delivery device is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of nozzle openings from which fluid is ejected and a waste control aperture. | 12-10-2009 |
20090303270 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A liquid droplet ejection apparatus performs a drawing operation on a workpiece set on a set table by driving the ejection of a functional liquid droplet ejection head in a head unit while moving the head unit in a main scanning direction relative to the set table. The liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes an ejection defect test unit for inspecting an ejection defect of the functional liquid droplet ejection head. The ejection defect test unit includes a drawn unit on which a predetermined test pattern is drawn by test ejection from the functional liquid droplet ejection head and ejection-defect determination means for determining the ejection defect by capturing an image of the test pattern drawn on the ejection-defect test unit and recognizing the image. The drawn unit is disposed on a scan moving axis offset from the set table towards the main scanning direction. | 12-10-2009 |
20090309907 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - This invention reduces an unprinted stripe occurred by edge deviation of a printhead. An inkjet printing apparatus according to this invention can execute a first printing mode in which an image is printed by scanning the printhead in a first region on the printing medium N times and scanning the printhead in a second region adjacent to the first region (N+1) times, and a second mode in which an image is printed by scanning the printhead in the first region M times and scanning the printhead in the second region (M+1) times. The width, in the conveyance direction of the printing medium, of the second region printed in the second printing mode is narrower than the width, in the conveyance direction of the printing medium, of the second region printed in the first printing mode. | 12-17-2009 |
20090322811 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM - An inkjet printing system comprising a plurality of static inkjet printing units each comprising at least one inkjet printing head; an ink-receiving element comprising a poorly-absorbing or impermeable substrate; an aqueous inkjet composition which comprises a polymeric compound comprising discrete particles responsive to an external stimulus, and a functional material, which may be incorporated as part of the polymeric particles, the composition having a first rheological state and a different second rheological state in response to a stimulated change in conditions, the first state being associated with a first lower viscosity of the composition, wherein the particles have a first lower volume, and the second state being associated with a second higher viscosity of the composition, wherein the particles have a second higher volume, and of drying the aqueous ink composition only positioned downstream of the plurality of the printing units. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002031 | PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - A method of processing image data is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method, which obtains image data for printing the edge of a circular pad having a radius of R by forming ink blots having a radius of r in an overlapping manner, includes: setting a permissible pitch range as a distance between adjacent ink blots; arranging first image data to the edge of the pad, in an x-y coordinate system; generating second image data with a smaller radius than the first image data, the second image data sharing the center with the first image data; arranging a first base point on the second image data; selecting the first determination point on the second image data separated from the first base point; determining if a distance between the first base point and the first determination point is within the permissible pitch range; and storing a coordinate, located at a shortest distance from the first determination point, as print data. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002032 | SCANNER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD OF SCANNER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A scanner, an image forming apparatus and a motor control method of the scanner and the image forming apparatus. The motor control method includes scanning a test image formed on a document, calculating an actual speed of a scan head moved by the motor using the scanned test image, calculating a matrix representing a relation between a driving signal to drive the motor and the calculated actual speed of the scan head, and renewing the driving signal using an inverse matrix to the calculated matrix to correct the actual speed of the scan head. | 01-07-2010 |
20100007686 | LIQUID-DISCHARGE-FAILURE DETECTING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A light-emitting element emits a beam onto a droplet discharged from a nozzle from a direction opposite to a direction of discharge of the droplet. A light-receiving element receives a scattered light generated by scattering of the beam by the droplet. Finally, a failure detecting unit detects a liquid discharge failure from data of the scattered light received by the light-receiving element. | 01-14-2010 |
20100013878 | BI-DIRECTIONAL PRINT MASKING - A method for reducing banding artifacts for bi-directional multi-pass printing on an inkjet printer utilizing a printhead with a plurality of ink nozzles includes defining different print masks to be used for leftward and rightward printing passes such that both the order of ink laydown and the timing between ink laydown on different passes are each substantially constant for a given horizontal position within the image, independent of the vertical position within the image; and printing an input image on the inkjet printer with the defined print masks using a bi-directional multi-pass print mode. | 01-21-2010 |
20100013879 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLORING AN ARTICLE OF ALUMINIUM OR ALUMINIUM ALLOYS - A printing method and apparatus for coloring an article of aluminium or aluminiums alloys, said article comprising a surface formed by an open pore oxide layer, and an article printed therewith. | 01-21-2010 |
20100013880 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING IMAGES - An apparatus for printing an image on an object that includes electronic image storage for storing an image to be printed on a image surface of the object, and a print head positioned in spaced-apart relation to the object for receiving electronic data representing the image to be printed through the ink jet print head and applying the image to object using an ink that is applied with a predetermined electrical charge polarity. A voltage generator generates an electrical charge having an opposite polarity charge in relation to the predetermined charge polarity of the ink, and applies the opposite charge proximate the object and at a position to accelerate the ink being applied from the print head onto the object. | 01-21-2010 |
20100020118 | INKJET PRINTHEAD AND METHOD OF PRINTING WITH MULTIPLE DROP VOLUMES - A printhead and a method of ejecting liquid droplets are provided. The method includes providing a printhead operable to eject liquid drops having a plurality of drop volumes V | 01-28-2010 |
20100020119 | DUPLEX PRINTING WITH INTEGRATED IMAGE MARKING ENGINES - The present disclosure provides a method for controlling printing in a solid ink jet printing system. The method comprises forming a first ink image and a second ink image on a transfer surface; passing a receiving substrate through a first nip simplex path of a first ink jet printer at a first print speed; exerting a first pressure on the receiving substrate in the first nip to transfer the first ink image from the transfer surface to a first side of the receiving substrate; moving the receiving substrate through an inverter path; passing the receiving substrate through a second nip simplex path of a second ink jet printer at a second print speed; and, exerting a second pressure on the receiving substrate in the second nip to transfer the second ink image from the transfer surface to a second side of the receiving substrate. | 01-28-2010 |
20100026743 | INKJET PRINTING METHODS AND INK SETS - An inkjet printing method includes, in order, the steps of | 02-04-2010 |
20100026744 | Printhead Diagnostic Plot - Among various embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for diagnosing printhead status are shown. The printhead status can be diagnosed by detecting which of a number of nozzles in a first printhead fire ink; and printing with visible ink a diagnostic plot using a second printhead that maps which nozzles fire ink in the first printhead. The number of nozzles in the first printhead which fire ink is determined by visually identifying the nozzles that fire ink in the second printhead as indicated by the placement of the visible ink on the diagnostic plot. | 02-04-2010 |
20100033521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING A SCANNING PLAN IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING - Embodiments of the present invention may include a method for printing three-dimensional objects, layer by layer utilizing an optimized scheme of predefined passes for each layer based on considerations related to both throughput and quality of printing. Embodiment of the invention may include generating a scanning plan for a layer such that the accumulated length for all the scanning passes in the layer is minimized. The optimization scheme may be performed based on image data parameters, such as sizes, locations, dimensions and shapes of the imaged areas of the layer. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033522 | INK SET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An object of the invention is to provide an ink set which enables to improve image density and scratch resistance of the images recorded using an ink containing a self-dispersion pigment and an ink containing a modified siloxane compound. An ink set to be used for ink jet recording including plural inks having a first ink and a second ink independently, wherein the first ink contains at least a pigment having functional groups on surface of pigment particles and a compound having adsorptivity to the pigment and the functional group density on the surface of the pigment particles is 1.5 μmol/m | 02-11-2010 |
20100033523 | INK SET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided are an ink jet ink set, an ink jet recording method, and an ink jet recording apparatus each of which can reduce the graininess of an image to be recorded and improve the water fastness of the image even in a recording medium such as plain paper. The ink jet ink set has a first ink and a second ink independently, and is used so that the first and second inks overlap each other at least partly upon application of the inks to a recording medium. The first ink contains at least a pigment and a silicone oil. The second ink contains at least a pigment and a graft polymer that includes at least a nonionic unit represented by the general formula (I) and a unit having a polysiloxane structure. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033524 | Inkjet Printing Method and Ink Set - In an inkjet printing system using an ink which comprises a coloring material dispersed in a solvent, it is aimed that printing density is improved by thickening the ink on a printing medium so as to stay the coloring material on the surface of the printing medium. | 02-11-2010 |
20100039462 | LIQUID-DISCHARGE-FAILURE DETECTING APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETECTING LIQUID DISCHARGE FAILURE - A light-emitting element emits a beam onto a droplet discharged from a nozzle. A light-receiving element receives a scattered light generated by scattering of the beam by the droplet. A discharge-speed controller controls a speed of discharge of the droplet from the nozzle to be set at the speed outside a normal discharge-speed range that is determined depending on a viscosity of a liquid. Finally, a failure detecting unit detects a liquid discharge failure from data of the scattered light received by the light-receiving element. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039463 | WHITE INKJET INK IMPROVED FOR DISPERSION STABILITY - An inkjet printing method includes in order the steps of: a) providing to an inkjet printer one or more colorless liquids and a white ink including a pigment with a refractive index greater than 1.60; b) mixing the white ink in a controlled amount with the one or more colorless liquids to form a white ink-mixture wherein the viscosity is reduced by at least 5 mPa·s by reference to the white ink when measuring the viscosity at 40° C. with a Brookfield DV-II+Pro at 12 rotations per minute; and c) printing the white ink-mixture with the inkjet printer onto an ink-receiver. Additionally, a color inkjet ink set includes the one or more colorless liquids and the white ink, and an inkjet printer for use in the inkjet printing method. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039464 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A print head which includes at least two discharge nozzle lines arranged on at least two lines, out of a base line corresponding to a radial direction of the rotating print object and at least one offset lines parallel to the base line, discharges ink drops of the same color from discharge nozzles of the discharge nozzle lines, moves the print head so as to minutely move the discharge nozzle lines on the base line or the offset lines, and discharges ink drops of the same color from the discharge nozzles passing through second paths moved minutely from the first paths over the rotating print object. In this way, the ink drops are discharged on the area where print defects are caused because the area is not on the paths of the discharge nozzles before the discharge nozzles are minutely moved. | 02-18-2010 |
20100045714 | CAPACITIVE LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - A capacitive load driving circuit including: a filter including an inductor to which an analog driving signal is input, and a capacitor with a fixed capacitance where one electrode is connected the inductor and other electrode grounded; a plurality of capacitive loads connected in parallel to the capacitor, and driven in accordance with the analog driving signal; a conversion section converting a load voltage to a digital signal; a signal processing section generating a predetermined signal for driving the capacitive load, deriving a signal that represents a magnitude of an electric current flowing to the capacitive load from the digital signal and a digital driving signal, subtracting the signal from the predetermined signal, and outputting the subtracted signal as the digital driving signal; and a switching section generating the analog driving signal by performing switching based on the digital driving signal, and outputting the analog driving signal. | 02-25-2010 |
20100045715 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a carriage carrying a recording head and being movably supported, the recording head being configured to eject liquid onto a recording medium, a plurality of driven units to be driven by a drive source that generates a driving force, a transmission-switching mechanism configured to switch between the driven units, a carriage locker configured to prevent and allow movement of the carriage, and a transmission-switching locker configured to prevent and allow switching between the driven units. Movement prevention by the carriage locker and switching prevention by the transmission-switching locker are in synchronicity, and movement allowance by the carriage locker and switching allowance by the transmission-switching locker are in synchronicity. | 02-25-2010 |
20100045716 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid droplet jetting apparatus which jets liquid droplets on to an object, including a transporting mechanism which transports the object along a transporting path extended in a predetermined transporting direction, two heads, each having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a row along a direction intersecting the transporting direction, which jet liquid droplets from the plurality of nozzles while maintaining relative positions of the two heads, and a head relative-position changer which switches the relative positions of the two heads to a predetermined first relative position, and a second relative position which is different from the first relative position in the direction intersecting. | 02-25-2010 |
20100045717 | Print Engine For Rotated Ejection Nozzle Correction - A print engine is provided having printhead modules and a controller. Each printhead module has a plurality of ejection nozzles. The nozzles of at least one of the printhead modules is rotationally displaced relative to the other printhead modules. The controller communicates ejection data to the ejection nozzles in accordance with a cumulative correction factor for each printhead module, including printhead modules having non-rotationally displaced nozzles, to at least partially compensate for the rotational displacement. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053241 | Non-interfering flushing method for inkjet printers - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an overlay having a flushing pattern to flush nozzles of an inkjet print head, printing a page of print data and flushing the nozzles of the inkjet print head during the printing of the page of print data as indicated by the flushing pattern. The flushing of a nozzle does not occur at a data point of the flushing pattern corresponding to a data point of the page of print data. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053242 | Liquid jet recording apparatus, liquid jet head unit, and liquid jet recording method - Provided is a liquid jet recording apparatus which maintains a function of adjusting pressure of liquid jetted from a jetting portion toward a recording medium and which still has a simple apparatus structure. In the liquid jet recording apparatus, a pressure sensor is provided in a tube between a liquid storing portion and a roller tube pump, the pressure of liquid which flows through the tube is measured, a pressure value is sent to a control portion, the pressure value is compared with lower limit values and upper limit values stored in a definition file stored in the control portion, a corresponding drive signal is sent to a drive portion, a roller tube pump is driven in a normal direction or in a reverse direction by a drive portion, and in this way, the pressure of the liquid in a jetting portion is adjusted. | 03-04-2010 |
20100060680 | METHOD OF PRINTING LINE BY USING INKJET APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method of printing a circuit line on the board by using an inkjet apparatus. The line printing method of an embodiment can include forming an original bitmap image including information related to a circuit line to be printed on the board; firstly printing the circuit line according to the original bitmap image on the board by using the inkjet apparatus; forming a first printed image by photographing the circuit line firstly printed on the board; forming a complementary bitmap image including complementary printing information corresponding to a defectively printed portion based on the first printed image; and secondly printing a pertinent portion according to the complementary bitmap image on the board by using the inkjet apparatus. | 03-11-2010 |
20100060681 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - Provided is a printing device including: a printing unit which has a plurality of nozzles for ejecting a liquid and prints an image; an inspection unit which inspects whether or not the liquid can be ejected from each of the nozzles; a facsimile unit which receives image data via a communication line; and a controller which allows the inspection unit to perform the inspection at a predetermined timing when the printing unit performs the printing based on image data other than image data received by the facsimile unit and allows the inspection unit to perform the inspection before the printing regardless of the predetermined timing when the printing unit performs the printing based on the image data received by the facsimile unit. | 03-11-2010 |
20100060682 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING NOZZLE TEST PATTERN - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that includes a plurality of nozzles disposed for each color of liquids and ejects liquids from the plurality of nozzles onto a medium and a control unit that forms a nozzle test pattern for testing defective liquid-ejection of a test target nozzle with one from the plurality of nozzles set as the test target nozzle. The control unit performs either a first process in which the nozzle test pattern is formed by having liquids ejected from the test target nozzle and a different nozzle, which is different from the test target nozzle, from the plurality of nozzles land on the medium in an overlapping manner or a second process in which the nozzle test pattern is formed by having only the liquid ejected from the test target nozzle land on the medium in accordance with the type of the medium. | 03-11-2010 |
20100060683 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a first dot and a second dot having a diameter smaller than that of the first dot on a recording medium, and a scanning unit configured to move the recording unit in a scanning direction. A recording resolution of the second dot in the scanning direction is lower than a recording resolution of the first dot in the scanning direction. | 03-11-2010 |
20100066775 | SPACER PLACING METHOD - A technology for placing spacers free from the occurrence of streaks is provided. Random numbers are generated by a computer, and made in one-by-one association with discharge positions of an object for discharging every generation, and stored in a memory unit of the computer. Coefficient values are determined for the respective discharge positions based on the stored random numbers, and individual voltage values to be required for the respective discharge positions are calculated through the multiplication of voltages set for respective nozzle holes N | 03-18-2010 |
20100073411 | Ink Jet Recording Device - A conventional ink jet recording device has a phenomenon of such that a transverse pitch between longitudinal dot column of a first line and that of a second line of character lines to be printed becomes narrower than that between other longitudinal dot columns when printing out on a printing object traveling in high speed. | 03-25-2010 |
20100073412 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a print medium in a predetermined transport direction, and a printing control unit that performs preliminary printing by ejecting ink droplets through a plurality of nozzles, which are the same as nozzles used for printing a reference mark, onto an area on a downstream side of a specific position in the transport direction in an area of the print medium before printing the reference mark on the specific position of the print medium by ejecting ink droplets through a print head provided with the nozzles for ejecting the ink droplets. | 03-25-2010 |
20100073413 | Pattern forming method - A pattern forming method includes the step of ejecting droplets of a liquid containing a functional component, from nozzles of an inkjet recording head onto a surface of a substrate in one direction in sequence so as to form a linear pattern on the surface of the substrate, wherein: the inkjet recording head is controlled in such a manner that | 03-25-2010 |
20100073414 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The image forming apparatus includes: a first group of large nozzles which eject large droplets of liquid for a color; a second group of small nozzles which eject small droplets of the liquid for the color, the small droplets having volume smaller than the large droplets; a dot data creation device which creates dot data according to input image data; a dot data correction device which corrects the dot data if there is an abnormal nozzle in one of the first and second groups, in such a manner that a corrective nozzle is selected from the other of the first and second groups, and droplet ejection performed by the corrective nozzle substitutes for droplet ejection that is originally to be performed by the abnormal nozzle; and a driving device which drives the large and small nozzles to eject the large and small droplets according to the corrected dot data. | 03-25-2010 |
20100073415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DOCUMENTS HAVING STORED ELECTROSTATIC PATTERN INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key. | 03-25-2010 |
20100079518 | DOT POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD, DOT POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A dot position measurement method includes: a line pattern formation step of recording dots continuously by a plurality of recording elements of a recording head while performing relative movement between the recording head and a recording medium in such a manner that a measurement line pattern including a plurality of lines of rows of the dots respectively corresponding to the plurality of recording elements is formed on the recording medium; a reading step of reading the measurement line pattern formed on the recording medium with an image reading apparatus in a state where a longitudinal direction of the plurality of lines of the measurement line pattern are directed to a sub-scanning direction of the image reading apparatus and a reading resolution in the sub-scanning direction of the image reading apparatus is lower than a reading resolution in a main scanning direction of the image reading apparatus in such a manner that an electronic image data indicating a read image of the measurement line pattern is acquired; a region allocating step of allocating a plurality of averaging regions where an image signal on the read image is averaged in terms of the sub-scanning direction, to different positions in terms of the sub-scanning direction of each of line blocks, each line block including the lines arranged in the main scanning direction; an average profile image forming step of averaging the image signal in terms of the sub-scanning direction in each of the plurality of averaging regions that have been allocated to the different positions and creating average profile images for positions in terms of the main scanning direction; an edge position determination step of determining positions of both edges of each of the lines according to the average profile images; an averaging region position determination step of determining positions of the lines in the plurality of averaging regions according to the positions of the both edges determined in the edge position determination step; and a line block position determination step of determining positions of the lines in the line blocks according to the positions of the lines in the plurality of averaging regions determined according to the average profile images corresponding to the plurality averaging regions respectively. | 04-01-2010 |
20100091052 | INK FOR INKJET PRINTING - An ink for inkjet printing comprising a pigment, a water-dispersible resin, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the water-dispersible resin is an anionic resin having a film elongation of 400-1,000%, a tensile strength of 20 to 50 N/mm | 04-15-2010 |
20100091053 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD - This invention pertains to a drop-on-demand ink jet printing method, more particularly to a method of printing wherein a purge image is logically combined with a selected image so as to insure a desired amount of drop firing from every jet of an ink jet printhead for every page printed. The inventive method avoids image defects that could otherwise occur as a result of faulty drop firing from infrequently used nozzles. Purge image data that specifies the deposition of at least one ink dot on at least one predetermined pixel location on each of the plurality of image scanlines is constructed and stored in a purge image memory accessible by the printing apparatus. Imperceptible purge image patterns are constructed having blue noise spatial frequency characteristics and optical density levels equal to or less than 0.01 OD above print medium base OD. A plurality of purge image data sets are constructed and stored for retrieval to adapt to a variety of conditions. Acceptable purge image data sets are determined using a purge performance image as a test pattern which is optically scanned or analyzed by user observation. The present invention further include numerous printing apparatus configured to implement the disclosed methods of maintaining ink jet printheads | 04-15-2010 |
20100091054 | METHOD AND A PRINTING MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED BOARD CONTAINERS - The invention relates to a method of providing board containers (V) with prints and a printing machine that applies the method. According to the invention, the printing machine comprises a turret head ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100091055 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method recording on an inkjet recording medium having an ink receiving layer containing at least inorganic microparticles, a water-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent, by ejecting | 04-15-2010 |
20100091056 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head including heads containing arranged nozzles to discharge a droplet, the heads are arranged in a zigzag form along a nozzle array direction; a conveyer belt with suction holes to convey a printing medium in a direction intersecting a head array direction; and a control unit to control an blank discharging; wherein suction hole arrays including the suction holes arranged in the head array direction, are arranged at a predetermined interval; wherein one of the suction hole arrays is a reference suction hole array including the suction hole to pass a position facing the nozzle of a nozzle array end and the nozzle in an overlapping part of two heads in the nozzle array direction; and wherein the control unit makes each nozzle discharge a blank discharging droplet to the suction holes, using the reference suction hole array as a standard. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091057 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball having an indicia produced by ink jet printing is disclosed. An ink composition containing a coloring agent and a resin is dispensed on a transfer medium, using an ink jet printer, to form an indicia. The indicia is transferred from the transfer medium to the dimpled surface of a golf ball. In another form of the invention, an indicia is applied directly to a golf ball, without a transfer medium. In this method, an indicia receiving layer is applied on at least a portion of the golf ball surface, then the indicia is printed directly on the indicia receiving layer using an ink jet printer. The indicia on the golf ball has an impact resistance suitable for use in competitive play. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091058 | HEAT ACTIVATED PRINTING PROCESS - Reactive inks and methods of generating an image on a substrate using both reactive and heat activated inks are presented. An image is printed on a substrate, without reacting the reagents in the ink. Subsequently, the reagents are reacted to fix the image to a substrate, with substantial permanency and fastness. Sublimation or similar heat activated dyes are printed are also printed on the substrate. The sublimation or similar heat activated dyes are activated, and have an affinity for polymer that is applied to the substrate. | 04-15-2010 |
20100097415 | PRODUCING AND DEFLECTING INK DROPLETS OF VARIABLE SIZE - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the creation, particularly also for the deflection of ink droplets of different sizes, particularly in a print image of a continuously operating ink jet printer, a continuous cohesive ink jet being projected by a nozzle of a pressure chamber, in which a sequence of sequence of sound pulses ( | 04-22-2010 |
20100097416 | ORGANIC DRY JET PRINTING HEAD, AND PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an organic dry jet printing head and a printing device and method using the same, in which a pattern (thin film) can be formed through the repetitive injection of a high-speed jet by regularly and repeatedly opening and closing an on-off valve in a pattern (thin film) forming region using the on-off valve and a control unit. The organic dry jet printing head and the printing device and method using the same are advantageous in that processes can be performed at atmospheric pressure, a large-area organic electronic device can be manufactured and high-resolution patterns can be printed, thereby improving productivity and economic efficiency. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097417 | Ink Jet Printing - A continuous ink jet printer comprising an ink gun for forming an ink jet; an arrangement of electrodes for trapping electric charges on ink drops of the ink jet and for creating an electrostatic field for deflecting drops carrying trapped electric charges; and a gutter having an ink-receiving orifice for receiving ink drops of the ink jet which are not used for printing; a gutter flow path for flow of ink from the ink-receiving orifice of the gutter, through and away from the gutter; an air recirculation line for conveying at least some of any air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as to re-enter the gutter flow path either through the ink-receiving orifice or through a connection into the gutter flow path downstream of the ink-receiving orifice; and a vent for venting at least some of the air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as not to re-enter the gutter flow path. | 04-22-2010 |
20100110120 | Liquid Jetting Apparatus - A liquid jetting apparatus includes a head having a nozzle which jets a liquid; a drive mechanism which reciprocately moves the head in a vertical direction to move the nozzle in the vertical direction; a nozzle protective member which is arranged in a moving area for the head and which protects the nozzle of the head; a controller which controls the drive mechanism to stop the head at a standby position which faces the nozzle protective member; a liquid container which contains the liquid; and a liquid tube which supplies the liquid to the head, and the liquid container is arranged such that, when the liquid container is filled with the liquid at a maximum capacity thereof, a liquid level of the liquid in the liquid container is same as or lower than a lowermost point of the nozzle in the head stopped at the standby position. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110121 | Inkjet ink and printing method using the same - An inkjet ink and a method for printing on hydrophobic media such as offset coated media, using the inkjet ink, including an inkjet containing a pigment, water, a surfactant and 40 to 75 weight % of a polar non-protic solvent with a molecular weight of 40 to 130 which has permeability to a hydrophobic surface such as the coating of an offset coated medium. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110122 | Inkjet ink and printing method using the same - A inkjet ink and a method for printing on hydrophobic media such as offset coated media using the inkjet ink. An inkjet contains a pigment, water, a surfactant and 40 to 75 weight % of a polar non-protic solvent with a molecular weight of 40 to 130 which has permeability to a hydrophobic surface such as the coating of an offset coated medium. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110123 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS, INK-JET COPIER AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A containing member contains a recording medium which has a base member and granular material coated on both sides of the base member, and roughness of the surfaces of the coated granular material is smaller than the roughness of the base member. A printing unit includes an ink-jet recording head which jets recording liquid onto the recording medium. A conveyance unit and a conveyance path convey the recording medium, one side of which has been already printed, into the printing unit again in order to print image onto the other side thereof. A unit is provided for enabling the printing unit to print image on the recording medium such that the vertical orientations of the images printed both sides of the recording medium are coincide with each other. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110124 | Method Of Ejection From Nozzles Of Printhead - A method of ejection from nozzles of a printhead is provided. Each nozzle has a chamber having an ejection port and heater element which has a bubble nucleation section of a smaller cross section than the rest of that heater element. In the method, for each nozzle, actuation energy of less than 500 nJ is applied to the heater element so that the temperature of the bubble nucleation section is heated to above a boiling point of printing fluid within the chamber before the rest of the heater element thereby forming a gas bubble in the printing fluid which causes ejection of printing fluid from the ejection port. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118066 | CLEAR FLUID PATTERNING ON PAPER MEDIA - Methods and means for imaging on paper media are provided. A data file of an image to be printed is analyzed. A pattern for a clear fluid is determined according to the analysis. The pattern of clear fluid is applied to a paper media traveling in a particular direction, wherein the pattern is generally elongated along the direction of travel. The pattern of clear fluid is defined by a maximum width that is generally equal to the maximum width of the image to be formed. One or more colored inks are applied such that the image is formed and is supported by the paper media. The paper media exhibits reduced cockle as a result of the pattern of clear fluid. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118067 | WATER-SOLUBLE AZO COMPOUND OR SALT THEREOF, INK COMPOSITION AND COLORED PRODUCT - The present invention relates to a water-soluble azo compound represented by the following formula (1): | 05-13-2010 |
20100118068 | RECORDING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, RECORDING HEAD INCLUDING THE SAME, AND RECORDING HEAD CARTRIDGE - Even when a contact connection failure of electrical connection occurs between a recording head including a recording element substrate, and a recording apparatus, continuous driving of the same heat generating resistive element is suppressed. Blocks in which heat generating resistive elements are not driven are prepared beforehand in a selection target of blocks to be driven in a time-division manner. When an input signal is in a predetermined condition, the block selection target is set to blocks in which heat generating resistive elements are not driven. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118069 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer has a head ejecting an ink including a colorant, water, an alcoholic solvent, and a surfactant to form an image, and a control portion controlling the head so as not to eject the ink to edge pixels when the image is formed on a medium. In the above printer, the alcoholic solvent contains at least one slightly water-soluble alkanediol. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118070 | Micro-Miniature Fluid Jetting Device - Micro-fluid jetting devices and methods for ejecting fluid mixtures on a substrate are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention show fluid-flow architecture whereby fluid channels direct a plurality of fluids from their respective reservoirs to be ejected through the nozzles of a nozzle plate. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118071 | CONTINUOUS INK JET APPARATUS AND METHOD USING A PLURALITY OF BREAK-OFF TIMES - A continuous liquid drop emission apparatus is disclosed comprising a liquid drop emitter containing a positively pressurized liquid in flow communication with a plurality of nozzles formed in a common nozzle member for emitting a plurality of continuous streams of liquid. A jet stimulation apparatus is provided comprising a plurality of transducers corresponding to the plurality of nozzles and adapted to transfer energy to the liquid in corresponding flow communication with the plurality of nozzles sufficient to cause the break-off of the plurality of continuous streams of liquid at a plurality of predetermined break-off times into a plurality of streams of drops of predetermined volumes. Sensing apparatus is provided adapted to measure a characteristic value for each of the plurality of streams of drops of predetermined volumes; and control apparatus is adapted to provide a plurality of break-off time setting signals to the jet stimulation apparatus to cause the plurality of predetermined break-off times determined, at least, by the characteristic value of each of the plurality of streams of drops of predetermined volumes. Alternately, a sensing apparatus is used in an off-line calibration set-up and characteristic values are measured for the plurality of streams and stored in a stream memory that is included in the continuous liquid drop apparatus. The present inventions are also configured to provide a plurality of the break-off times for a plurality of liquid streams in a continuous liquid drop emission apparatus that is further adapted to inductively charge at least one drop in a each of a plurality of streams and having electric field deflection apparatus adapted to generate a Coulomb force on an inductively charged drop. Methods of operating a continuous liquid drop emission apparatus utilizing a plurality of predetermined break-off times are disclosed. | 05-13-2010 |
20100123745 | FRAME DATA CREATION DEVICE, CREATION METHOD, CREATION PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A spatial light modulation element having a plurality of plotting element groups is moved in a scan direction and frame data is inputted into the spatial light modulation element according to the movement so as to form an image. A device creates the frame data used here. When the frame data is created according to image data having pixel data arranged in two-dimensional way in the sub-scan direction corresponding to the scan direction and the main scan direction orthogonally intersecting the sub-scan direction, each of the positions of the plotting points obtained by at least some plotting elements of the plotting element group (circles | 05-20-2010 |
20100123746 | Ink jet inks containing nanodiamond black colorants - An ink including (a) a carrier and (b) a colorant comprising nanodiamond black. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128074 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a white-colored ink nozzle which ejects white-colored ink; a colored ink nozzle which ejects colored ink different from the white-colored ink; a scanning mechanism which moves the nozzles and a print medium, onto which the ejected ink is landed, relative to each other; and a controller which controls the ink ejection of the nozzles and the scanning mechanism. The controller forms a color line by ejecting the colored ink onto the print medium, while relatively moving the nozzle with respect to the print medium in a first direction, and then the controller ejects the white-colored ink on the color line so as to draw white lines intersecting the color line by moving the nozzle and the print medium relative to each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction. | 05-27-2010 |
20100128075 | WIRING BOARD - An FPC connected to a piezoelectric actuator has a board and two driver ICs mounted on the board. The board is provided with two wires for transmitting two kinds of mode selection signals respectively corresponding to two kinds of driving modes and with a selection pad selecting one from the two kinds of mode selection signals transmitted through the two wires and then outputting the selected signal to each driver IC. | 05-27-2010 |
20100134542 | INKJET PRINTING PARTIALLY IMAGED PANELS WITH SUPERIMPOSED LAYERS - A panel and method for making the panel are disclosed. The panel includes a substrate sheet partially imaged with a print pattern. The print pattern subdivides the panel into a plurality of discrete printed areas and/or a plurality of discrete unprinted areas. The design is superimposed on or forms a part of said print pattern. The design comprises a design layer. The print pattern includes a base layer. The print pattern includes elongate printed areas orientated lengthways in one direction. The design layer and base layer include inkjet printable ink in elongate ink deposits orientated lengthways in the one direction. The elongate ink deposits may have an aspect ratio of length:width greater than 1.5:1. The base layer may include white ink. The panel may be made using a digital inkjet cylindrical printer that prints the base layer during at least 10 revolutions of the cylinder. | 06-03-2010 |
20100141696 | EJECTING METHOD AND EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a method of ejecting a coating agent cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave, the method including: a first operation which ejects the coating agent onto a medium; a second operation which is performed after the first operation so as to irradiate an electromagnetic wave to the coating agent ejected onto the medium in the first operation; a third operation which is performed after the second operation so as to eject the coating agent onto the medium; and a fourth operation which is performed after the third operation so as to irradiate the electromagnetic wave to the coating agent ejected onto the medium in the third operation. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149233 | PRESSURE MODULATION CLEANING OF JETTING MODULE NOZZLES - A continuous inkjet printhead includes a jetting module, a fluid system, and a controller. The jetting module includes an array of nozzles. The fluid system includes a liquid source and a pressure control device. The liquid source includes a liquid and is connected in fluid communication with the jetting module. The controller is in electrical communication with the pressure control device of the fluid system and is configured to provide a first signal to the pressure control device to cause the liquid to be ejected as liquid streams through the nozzles of the array at a first pressure sufficient to create a stream of print-selectable drops. The controller is configured to provide a second signal to the pressure control device to cause the liquid to be ejected as liquid streams through the nozzles of the array at a second pressure with the second pressure being less than the first pressure. The controller is configured to provide the first signal to the pressure control device after a period of time. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149234 | SPEED CALCULATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speed calculation device is provided. The generation component generates a plurality of pulse signals with different phases in accordance with rotation of a rotating body. The detection component detects rises and falls of respective pulses of the plurality of pulse signals generated by the generation component. The duration calculation component, each time a rise or fall is detected by the detection component, calculates a total duration of a pre-specified number of durations representing detection intervals of rises or falls detected by the detection component prior to the current rise or fall detected by the detection component. The speed calculation component calculates a speed relating to rotation of the rotating body on the basis of the total duration and a rotation angle of the rotating body that corresponds to one pulse of the pulse signals. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149235 | LIQUID-EJECTION TESTING METHOD, LIQUID-EJECTION TESTING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A liquid-ejection testing method includes the following steps (A) to (D): (A) a step of making a conductive first detection member and a conductive second detection member opposed, in a non-contact state, to a liquid ejecting nozzle that is to be tested; (B) a step of ejecting a charged liquid from the liquid ejecting nozzle; (C) a step of detecting an induced current generated at each of the first detection member and the second detection member by the liquid that has been ejected from the liquid ejecting nozzle; and (D) a step of judging, on the liquid ejecting nozzle, whether or not ejection of the liquid is being properly performed based on a magnitude of the detected induced current generated at each of the first detection member and the second detection member. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149236 | SPEED CALCULATION DEVICE, SPEED ESTIMATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speed calculation device is provided. The generation component generates a plurality of pulse signals with different phases in accordance with rotation of a rotating body. The detection component detects rises and falls of respective pulses of the plurality of pulse signals generated by the generation component. The duration calculation component, each time a rise or fall is detected by the detection component, calculates a total duration of a pre-specified number of durations representing detection intervals of rises or falls detected prior to the rise or fall currently detected by the detection component. The speed calculation component calculates a speed relating to rotation of the rotating body on the basis of the total duration and a rotation angle of the rotating body that corresponds to one pulse of the pulse signals. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149237 | RECORDING HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INSPECTION APPARATUS OF RECORDING HEAD AND METHOD THEREOF - A temperature detection circuit acquires first temperature data detected by a temperature sensor corresponding to a heater of a recording head in a state in which no electric current is flowed into the heater, and second temperature data for the heater in a state in which an electric current is flowed into the heater. Correction data for correcting the temperature data detected by the temperature sensor is obtained based on the first and second temperature data. The temperature data detected by the temperature sensor is corrected based on the correction data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100156971 | RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a recording apparatus, which ejects a second liquid to a non-image area other than an image area formed by dots recorded by ejecting ink droplets onto a curable solution layer. | 06-24-2010 |
20100156972 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of controllers that controls nozzle groups for forming an image on an image forming medium based on image data; a plurality of distribution processing units that are connected to a portion of the controllers to transmit to the controllers image data for controlling the nozzle groups allocated to the controllers; and a transmitting processing unit that transmits the image data to the distribution processing unit. Upper and lower level distribution processing units from the first distribution processing unit at the uppermost level to the second distribution processing unit at the lowermost level are communicatably connected to each other. The first distribution processing unit is communicatably connected to the transmitting processing unit. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165019 | INK JET RECORDING INK, INK JET IMAGE-FORMING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The invention provides an ink jet recording ink containing a self-dispersion pigment, to the surface of which an anionic functional group represented by the following general formula (I) has been bonded directly or through another atomic group, water, a water-soluble substance having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity of 0.37 or more as defined by the following equation (A) and a water-soluble substance having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity of 0.25 or less as defined by the equation (A), and having a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165020 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - The invention provides an ink composition containing at least: a water-soluble organic solvent; a pigment; water; and a nonionic polymer thickener. The content of the water-soluble organic solvent is from 5 weight % to 30 weight % relative to the total amount of the ink composition. The ratio of V | 07-01-2010 |
20100165021 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes: nozzles which discharge liquid which is cured by the irradiation of electromagnetic waves; an irradiation section which irradiates the electromagnetic waves to dots formed on a medium by the liquid discharged from the nozzles; and a controller which controls the discharging of the liquid from the nozzles and changes the irradiation amount of the electromagnetic waves that the irradiation section irradiates, according to methods of forming the dots. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING MAINTENANCE SERVICE - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head which has a plurality of nozzles for ejecting an ink onto a recording medium; a movement device which causes relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium; an image forming controller which controls the recording head according to image data in such a manner that an image corresponding to the image data is formed on the recording medium; an ejection abnormality detection device which detects ejection abnormality including at least one of non-ejection and ejection direction deviation of the plurality of nozzles; a compensation device which compensates an image defect caused by the ejection abnormality; and a determination device which determines whether or not the head is in a state where the compensation device can compensate the image defect, according to detection result of the ejection abnormality detection device. | 07-01-2010 |
20100182360 | Media Processing Device and a Control Method and Program Therefor - A media processing device, control method therefor, and program prevent a drop in the throughput of a media production process due to cleaning the print head. A publisher | 07-22-2010 |
20100188448 | Droplet discharge head, droplet discharge apparatus, and image forming apparatus - A droplet discharge head includes circuit boards each mounted with one or more nonvolatile memories. The nonvolatile memories are configured in a data-rewritable manner and are used to store written data even when power is turned off. The nonvolatile memories have a write-protect function. One or more of the nonvolatile memories are set to write inhibition state and the write inhibition state is fixed. One or more of the remaining nonvolatile memories are set to rewritable state. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188449 | PRINTING HEAD FOR NANO PATTERNING - The present invention provides a printing head for nano patterning including a manifold for accommodating a liquid printing material, a cartridge with an injection chamber communicating with the manifold, and a sample holder for patterning installed outside the injection chamber of the cartridge. The printing head comprises a shadow mask which is installed outside the injection chamber to be finely moved in an X-Y direction and has a single injection hole with a relatively very small size; an actuator for finely moving the shadow mask; an injection-inducing unit including a high voltage generator, a power supply electrode that is installed within the injection chamber and receives power from the high voltage generator to generate positive charges, and an opposite electrode for generating negative charges on the sample holder in a state where the shadow mask is interposed between the power supply electrode and the opposite electrode, thereby generating induced discharge from the injection chamber toward the sample holder; and a control unit for controlling the driving of the actuator so that the injection hole of the shadow mask can be moved to patterning positions corresponding to patterning data input in advance. According to the present invention, patterning accuracy can be improved, ultra-fine patterning and patterning of arbitrary shapes can be achieved, and a configuration for injecting the printing material can be simplified. | 07-29-2010 |
20100194800 | Inkjet printing devices and methods of driving the same - An inkjet printing device includes: a flow path plate, a piezoelectric actuator and an electrostatic force applicator. The flow path plate includes an ink inlet, a pressure chamber and a nozzle. The piezoelectric actuator is configured to provide a first driving force, and the electrostatic force applicator is configured to provide a second driving force. The disclosed inkjet printing devices and methods combine piezoelectric and electrostatic techniques. | 08-05-2010 |
20100194801 | Recording Apparatus - A recording apparatus of the present invention includes: a droplet ejection head including an inflow passage, a common fluid passage, and a plurality of individual fluid passages each extending to an ejection opening; a supply mechanism capable of forcedly supplying a fluid to the inflow passage; a wiper made of an elastic material; and a moving mechanism which moves the wiper. The fluid forcedly supplied to the inflow passage and discharged from each ejection opening does not drop from the ejection face, and at least a predetermined amount of the fluid discharged from each ejection opening is retained on the ejection face when the wiper traverses the relevant ejection opening. | 08-05-2010 |
20100194802 | PRINTER HAVING SELF-REFERENCING PRINTING CARTRIDGE - A printer is provided with a body having a slot for removably receiving a printing cartridge, a mesa feature arranged in the slot to cooperate with a complementary slot in the fluid distribution support of the printing cartridge upon mounting of the printing cartridge to the printer, and protrusions arranged in the slot to cooperate with a flat surface of a plurality of corners of the printing cartridge upon mounting of the printing cartridge to the printer The printing cartridge has at least one printhead integrated circuit with a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles and a fluid distribution support mounting the printhead integrated circuit. The cooperation of the mesa feature and complementary slot and the protrusions and corners provides information on the location of the nozzles. | 08-05-2010 |
20100201724 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a plurality of nozzles that discharges liquid; a liquid discharge head that includes nozzle arrays where the respective nozzles are arranged in one direction; a liquid adsorbent that adsorbs liquid attached to a portion of the liquid discharge head where the nozzle arrays are formed; a moving means for relatively moving the liquid adsorbent in an arrangement direction of the nozzles; and a liquid suction means for sucking liquid adsorbed in the liquid adsorbent. | 08-12-2010 |
20100207974 | Mitigation of Shorted Fluid Ejector Units - A fluid ejector includes a plurality of fluid ejector units, each fluid ejector unit characterized in part by a pumping actuator that includes an electrode. Whether one or more of the plurality of fluid ejector units is a shorted fluid ejector unit is determined, and the shorted fluid ejector unit is trimmed. | 08-19-2010 |
20100207975 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDED ARTICLE - An image is recorded by ejecting two or more ink compositions on a porous layer that contains inorganic microparticles and a water-soluble resin and has a porosity [%] of 50% or more with a maximum total ejection amount (mL/m | 08-19-2010 |
20100207976 | PRINT HEAD - A print head assembly includes a print head and a print head cover disposed around the print head. The print head cover includes a face and a print opening disposed in the face. The print opening disposed adjacent an ejection point of the print head. A perforated area is disposed on the face. | 08-19-2010 |
20100207977 | Printer Incorporating Multiple Synchronizing Printer Controllers - A printer includes a printhead having first and second elongate printhead modules; and first and second printer controllers receiving print data and processing the print data to output dot data to the printhead, the first printer controller outputting dot data to the first printhead module and the second printer controller outputting dot data to the second printhead module. The first elongate printhead module is informationally isolated from the second elongate printhead module, whereby no dot data passes therebetween. The first printer controller and the second printer controller communicate therebetween a synchronization signal to effect synchronization therebetween. | 08-19-2010 |
20100214334 | Inkjet head and inkjet recording method - An inkjet head includes: a pressure chamber; an actuator which expands and contracts volume of the pressure chamber; an ink supply flow channel; an individual supply flow channel having one end connected to the ink supply flow channel and another end connected to the pressure chamber, for guiding ink from the ink supply flow channel to the pressure chamber; a nozzle which ejects the ink; a nozzle flow channel having one end connected to the pressure chamber and another end connected to the nozzle, for guiding the ink from the pressure chamber to the nozzle; an ink recovery flow channel; an individual recovery flow channel having one end connected to the nozzle flow channel at a prescribed connection position set at an intermediate point of the nozzle flow channel and another end connected to the ink recovery flow channel, for guiding the ink from the nozzle flow channel to the ink recovery flow channel; an ink flow generation device which generates a flow of the ink from the nozzle flow channel toward the individual recovery flow channel; and a control device which controls driving of the actuator so as to drive the actuator in such a manner that, when performing ejection, volume of the pressure chamber contracts and thereby the ink is caused to be ejected from the nozzle, and when not performing the ejection, the volume of the pressure chamber expands and thereby a meniscus position of the ink is caused to be withdrawn to a vicinity of the prescribed connection position. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220130 | AVOIDING PRINTHEAD CONTACT - A system for avoiding printhead contact is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a detector switch configured to detect printhead contact, and a processor that is coupled to the detector switch and is configured to initiate action to avoid printhead contact. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220131 | Line drawing method - When a linear pattern is drawn on a non-permeable medium by ejecting droplets of liquid onto the non-permeable medium by using an inkjet method, drawing of the linear pattern is started from a middle portion of the linear pattern. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220132 | MULTI LEVEL PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD - A method of printing an image onto a substrate in a plurality of passes is presented. The method comprises the steps of separating the image into image portions, and printing each image portion in at least two layers. At least one printing pass prints the different layers to different image portions. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225685 | Droplet Mixing Apparatus and Droplet Mixing Method - A droplet mixing apparatus can be applied for use with a variety of liquids, can provide a mixing speed of hundreds of nl/s by adjusting an opening/closing time of a solenoid valve, can effectively mix droplets, and can reduce a reaction time when applied to clinical appliances that utilize expensive liquids. The droplet mixing apparatus includes a plurality of pressure containers storing liquids that are to be dispensed, a plurality of solenoid valves that are respectively connected to the pressure containers to dispense the liquids fed from the pressure containers into a mixing container, and a control unit that controls the solenoid valves such that the solenoid valves are either simultaneously opened or alternately opened and closed. | 09-09-2010 |
20100238209 | INK JET PRINTER HEAD ASSEMBLY - A print head assembly for a continuous ink jet printer has an ink heater module, including a valve assembly, which can be independently attached to or detached from the print head assembly. The print head assembly may also have an ink droplet generator module which is independently replaceable and may have other independently replaceable modules. Fluid pathways for in and solvent in the modules are preferably in the form of manifolds having fluid conduits defined between opposing faces of members of the modules. The modular print head assembly is easily repaired and maintained and the number of connectors prone to fluid leakage is minimized by the manifolds. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238210 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A fluid ejection device including, a drive element capable of storing a charge depending on a voltage applied to the drive element, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a power recovery module that recovers power from the drive element by connecting the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the drive element in series, wherein the power recovery module switches the first capacitor out of the in-series connection to further recover power from the drive element. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238211 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238212 | ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERTER FOR INK JET PRINTING - A method of driving an electromechanical converter of a print head of a continuous inkjet printer, wherein the electromechanical converter is arranged to break up a continuous stream of ink into a plurality of drops. The method includes determining a modulation voltage to drive the electromechanical converter, at least a property of the modulation voltage being controlled to take into account movement of a break up point of the continuous stream of ink, and to ensure that in a characteristic of modulation voltage versus a property at least indicative of a break up point of the continuous stream of ink, the characteristic has a predetermined gradient, or a gradient related to this predetermined gradient; and driving the electromechanical converter at the determined modulation voltage. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238213 | METHOD FOR DEAD NOZZLE REMAPPING - A method of accounting for dead nozzle remapping in a multi-nozzle printhead includes defining a first fixative plane and a second fixative plane; determining a first color plane requiring the fixative; determining if fixative is present in the first color plane; determining if the first color plane is dead; and adding fixative to a second color plane when it is determined that the first color plane is dead. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238214 | Decorating Guitars - Apparatus and methods of decorating guitars and other stringed musical instruments are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include UV printing a first portion of a decoration over a first region of at least part of a guitar using a first ink drop size, and UV printing a second portion of the decoration over a second region of said at least part of the guitar using a second ink drop size. In another aspect, a method may include UV printing a mask layer over a surface of at least a portion of a guitar using a first amount of image constriction and a first amount of feathering, and UV printing a decorative layer over at least a portion of the mask layer using a second amount of image constriction and a second amount of feathering. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245416 | INK-JET RECORDING METHOD, INK, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDED MATTER - An ink-jet recording method including: printing on a medium by ejecting thereon ink having a pH value of 8 or more and containing at least a particulate colorant, emulsion resin and surfactant, the medium prepared by providing at least a coat layer containing a pigment on at least one surface of a substrate containing cellulose pulp as a main component, wherein printing is performed at a deposited ink amount of 15 g/m2 or less, and wherein the medium has a pH value of 8 or more at a paper surface, and the amount of pure water transferring onto a surface of the medium having the coat layer after a contact time of 100 ms measured with a dynamic scanning absorptometer is 30 mL/m2 or less and the amount of pure water transferring onto the surface of the medium after a contact time of 400 ms is 35 mL/m2 or less. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245417 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head which has a plurality of recording elements, a drive unit, a selection-data generating mechanism which generates data for selecting a certain operation mode of the recording elements, a data transmitting mechanism which outputs a predetermined particular bit patterns at a tail end of the selection data, and a control-signal generating mechanism which generates a control signal for controlling the drive unit. The data transmitting mechanism inserts dummy data between the selection data. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245418 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles which are open in the nozzle surface and through which a liquid is discharged toward an object; a transporting device which transports the object relative to the nozzle surface in a transporting direction and which positions the object to face the nozzle surface; a platen having a flexibility or bendability and provided with an attachment portion to which the object is attached; and a platen moving device which moves the platen in a direction orthogonal to the transporting direction to position the attachment portion at a nozzle facing position facing the nozzle surface under the condition that the liquid is discharged toward the object. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245419 | INKJET CARTRIDGE PEN - A hand-held ink jet device constructed for use with insertable ink jet print/cartridges to produce ink droplet streams is provided. The device includes a memory capable of storing at least one image pattern. A driver coupled to the inkjet jets and being selectively actuatable for providing ink jetting electrical energy pulses. A selector switch for electively choosing one of the at least one image patterns stored on the memory. In addition, a spray switch is provided for selectively actuating the driver to provide electrical energy pulses to energize the respective jets in order to spray ink from the self-contained ink supply in the shape of the selected image pattern. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245420 | IMAGER FORMING APPARATUS AND FOAM APPLICATION DEVICE - A disclosed image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit configured to form an image on a to-be-recorded medium, and a foam application unit configured to apply foam of at least one of a liquid and a gel to the to-be-recorded medium or an intermediate member. The intermediate member is configured to apply the foam to the to-be-recorded medium. The foam application unit includes a storage unit configured to store the foam and spread the foam in a width direction of the to-be-recorded medium or the intermediate member, an applicator configured to apply the foam to the to-be-recorded medium or the intermediate member, and a transport unit configured to transport the foam from the storage unit to the applicator. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245421 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus including: an ink-jet head; a feeding mechanism which includes a feeding member having a feeding surface and which is configured to feed a sheet on the feeding surface in a feeding direction; a supplying mechanism which supplies the sheet to the feeding mechanism; and a controller which controls operations of the ink-jet head, the feeding mechanism, and the supplying mechanism, wherein the controller is configured to perform a first control in which the ink is ejected directly onto the feeding surface and a second control in which the sheet is, after the first control, supplied from the supplying mechanism to the feeding mechanism such that the sheet absorbs the ink on the feeding surface that has been ejected from the ink-jet head in the first control, and in which the sheet is fed by the feeding mechanism during the ejection of the ink. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245422 | METHOD OF THREE DIMENSIONALLY LOCATING PRINTHEAD ON PRINTER - A method of locating a printhead on a printer is provided in which a printhead is provided which has at least one integrated circuit having a plurality of ejection nozzles, the printhead is mounted to the printer by bringing each of a slot defined with respect to the x-coordinate of the printhead into cooperation with a mesa feature of the printer, an angled surface defined with respect to the x- and y-coordinates of the printhead into cooperation with a protrusion across the slot of the printer, and a flat surface defined with respect to the z-coordinate of the printhead into cooperation with protrusion located within the slot of the printer, and the location of the nozzles with respect to the x-, y- and z-coordinates is determined from the cooperation. | 09-30-2010 |
20100253721 | DEPOSITING DROPS ON A SUBSTRATE CARRIED BY A STAGE - A device for depositing drops includes a head configured to eject drops on a region of a substrate; a stage configured to hold the substrate while the head ejects drops on the region of the substrate; a first transporting device configured to transport the substrate in a transporting direction onto the stage; and a second transporting device configured to transport the substrate in the transporting direction off the stage. The stage and at least one of the first transporting device or the second transporting device are movable together in the transporting direction. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253722 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit which repeatedly ejects a liquid every predetermined unit, a first storing unit which stores the liquid to be supplied to the ejecting unit, a second storing unit which stores the liquid to be supplied to the first storing unit, a pump which supplies the liquid from the second storing unit to the first storing unit, a first creating unit which creates an ejection signal for ejecting the liquid in the ejecting unit, a second creating unit which creates a detection signal for detecting the liquid of the second storing unit, and a control unit which performs a first operation and a second operation, wherein the first operation includes an operation of creating the ejection signal using the first creating unit and an operation of performing a predetermined unit of a subsequent ejection using the ejecting unit, and the second operation includes an operation of supplying the liquid using the pump, an operation of creating the detection signal using the second creating unit, and an operation of detecting the liquid of the second storing unit, and wherein the control unit performs the second operation while the first operation is performed. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253723 | RECORDING APPARATUS - The driving force transmission changeover mechanism has a changeover operation mode in which a state of transmission of the driving force changes and a maintenance operation mode in which the state of transmission of the driving force is maintained, the changeover operation mode being executed when the carriage moves from the dot formation area to a first changeover position within the recording head maintenance area and then to the dot formation area, and the maintenance operation mode being executed when the carriage moves from the dot formation area to a second changeover position within the recording head maintenance area and then to the dot formation area. | 10-07-2010 |
20100259573 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING MARKING ON CONTINUOUS WEB PRINT MEDIA - The present disclosure describes a system and method for controlling the post-marking heaters and ink spreading nip rollers employed for spreading the ink dots on the media web to provide the desired image quality. The technique employs a sensor for sensing single pixel linewidth and showthru sensor to sense showthru of the ink. The sensor outputs are combined with the temperature and pressure values of the ink spreading nips to provide an error signal to a PID controller for controlling the nip pressure and heater temperature. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265287 | DROP DETECTOR - In one embodiment, a drop ejector assembly includes a printhead, a drop zone immediately downstream from the printhead, an array of optical fibers exposed to the drop zone such that light scattered off drops in the drop zone illuminates at least some of the optical fibers in the array, and a photo detector operatively connected to the array of optical fibers for converting light from the optical fibers into an electrical signal. In another embodiment, a drop detector includes a light source for illuminating drops passing through a drop zone and a light sensor for sensing light scattered off drops in the drop zone. The length of drop zone is 3 mm or less and the light sensor has a cross sectional dimension less than the length of the drop zone. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265288 | PRINTER CRADLE FOR INK CARTRIDGE - A printer cradle for receiving an ink cartridge having a rotor element includes a drive roller and an electrical motor for driving the drive roller; a flipper gear assembly engaged with the drive roller and driven by the drive roller between an engaged position where the flipper gear assembly is engaged with the rotor element and a disengaged position where the flipper gear is disengaged from the rotor element; a controller arrangement having a controller board housing a print engine controller configured to control the motor to actuate or disengage the rotor element; and one or more cradle connectors provided as slots, for facilitating electrical contact with the ink cartridge received in the printer cradle. | 10-21-2010 |
20100277522 | PRINTHEAD CONFIGURATION TO CONTROL JET DIRECTIONALITY - A method of printing and an apparatus for controlling the directionality of liquid emitted from nozzles of a printhead are provided. Example embodiments of the apparatus include directionality control of liquid jets or liquid drops using a liquid jet directionality control mechanism. Example embodiments of the liquid jet directionality control mechanism include asymmetric energy application device configurations, nozzle geometry configurations, liquid delivery channel geometry configurations, or combinations of these configurations. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277523 | Liquid Ejection Apparatus And Head Maintenance Method - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: an inkjet head including a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid containing a water-soluble high-boiling-point organic solvent having an SP value of 30 or lower at a concentration of 10 weight percent or higher and 25 weight percent or lower, a plurality of liquid chambers connected to the plurality of nozzles respectively, and a plurality of supply flow channels to any of which each of the plurality of nozzles is connected and which supply the liquid to the plurality of nozzles via the plurality of liquid chambers; a capping device configured to simultaneously cap the nozzles connected to the same supply flow channel, from a liquid ejection surface side of the inkjet head; a pressure application device which applies pressure to the liquid inside the nozzles via the capping device; and a pressure control device which controls the pressure application device so as to repeat pressurization and depressurization with respect to the liquid inside the nozzles. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277524 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR UNIT AND LIQUID TRANSPORTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric actuator unit includes a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode and a second electrode which are arranged to be sandwiching the piezoelectric layer, and which form an active portion of the piezoelectric layer by sandwiching the piezoelectric layer, a capacitor which is connected in series to the active portion, and a voltage applying mechanism which applies a first voltage to the capacitor, and a second voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode to cause a piezoelectric deformation in the active portion of the piezoelectric layer. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277525 | METHOD OF PRINTING AND PRINTER - A method of printing on a substrate in a page-wide array printer comprises printing on the substrate as the substrate is moved through a printing zone of the printer in a first direction, and printing on the substrate as the substrate is moved through the printing zone in a second direction different to the first direction. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277526 | PHOSPHATE-CONTAINING SURFACTANTS FOR USE WITH PIGMENT- AND LATEX-CONTAINING INK-JET INKS - The present disclosure is drawn to an ink-jet ink and a method of ink-jet printing over a prolonged period of time. The ink-jet ink can comprise from 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % pigment by solids, from 0.1 wt % to 15 wt % latex by solids, and from 0.01 wt % to 3 wt % phosphate-containing surfactant. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277527 | PRINTER HAVING PRINTHEAD WITH MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS - A printer is provided having a printhead having ejection nozzles and a plurality of controllers configured to process print data for printing and to output the processed data to the printhead. The plurality of controllers are connected to a common input of the printhead. | 11-04-2010 |
20100283809 | Calibration Process for Multi-Die Print Cartridge - One exemplary embodiment is a method that performs a calibration process for determining a number of spit and wipe operations to place each of multiple dies on a print cartridge in a stable state. | 11-11-2010 |
20100283810 | DROPLET-DISCHARGING APPARATUS, ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE - A droplet-discharging apparatus for discharging a droplet onto a base through the nozzle of a head, the apparatus including: a platform retaining the base; a plurality of transportation units, each including a head group having at least one head with a nozzle line and each being moved in the sub-scanning direction on an axis or on a plurality of axes disposed parallel to each other; and a position-controlling unit for adjusting relative position of the adjacent head groups arranged in the main scanning direction or in the sub-scanning direction to adjust the nozzle pitch by independently driving the plurality of transportation units, wherein the droplet is discharged onto predetermined portions on the base from the head group while the transportation units are relatively moved for the platform in the main scanning direction. | 11-11-2010 |
20100302292 | AQUEOUS COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED SILICON CORROSION CHARACTERISTICS - A process for printing inkjet ink and other aqueous compositions through silicon-based microelectromechanical printer structures is disclosed that suppresses the normal dissolution of the silicon device components in contact with the aqueous composition. Inkjet ink and other aqueous compositions used in the process contain the soluble salts of organic aromatic azo compounds in sufficient concentrations to inhibit silicon corrosion. The useful lifetime of microelectromechanical fluidic devices based on silicon fabrication is extended. | 12-02-2010 |
20100315453 | COMPLEXED PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a multifunction printer and a printing method thereof capable of applying a pre-coating prior to printing in order to improve ink adhesion, capable of applying a finish coating after printing an image in order to protect ink and prevent irregular ink reflection, and capable of cutting printed material. For this purpose, a multifunction printer is configured for pre-treatment and configured for finishing treatment, accommodates the addition of other colors through user settings, and has an integrally installed cutter for cutting final printed material, so that printed material with improved ink adhesion and ink durability can be provided regardless of the type of printing material, and scattered reflection of ink can be prevented to provide uniform color reproduction in printed material. Also, because printing and cutting are possible, processing time and manufacturing cost can be reduced, and yield and work environments can effectively be improved. | 12-16-2010 |
20100321428 | DOT RECORDING DEVICE, DOT RECORDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A storage medium storing a computer program that can be read by a computer, wherein the computer program causes the computer to generate dot recording data that is used in order for a dot recording device to perform dot recording and is supplied to the dot recording device that alternately performs, on the basis of the dot recording data, a main scanning pass to record a dot on a recording medium while moving an output head in a main scanning direction, the output head having a plurality of nozzles arranged in an auxiliary scanning direction, and a transfer operation to move the recording medium in the auxiliary scanning direction and that forms, on the recording medium, raster lines that extend in the main scanning direction and are arranged in the auxiliary scanning direction; when an M×N number of dots that are arranged in an M number of the raster lines and an N number of columns in a dot recording region are to be recorded in an M×N number of main scanning passes, the computer program causes the computer to perform a function of selecting, in the order in which the dots are recorded and on the basis of a thinning rate and of data on set recording positions of the dots that are to be recorded in the main scanning passes, a dot to be thinned from among the M×N number of dots included in the dot recording region so that the order in which dots arranged in each of the entire columns of the dot recording region in the auxiliary scanning direction are recorded is not sequential, each of M and N being an integer of two or more, the M number of raster lines being continuously arranged in the auxiliary scanning direction, the N number of columns being continuously arranged in the main scanning direction; the computer program causes the computer to perform a function of performing a thinning process on the dot to be thinned to thin the dot and prevent the dot from being recorded; and the computer program causes the computer to perform a function of forming the dot recording data by repeatedly arranging, in the main and auxiliary scanning directions, the dot recording region including the dot that is selected in the order in which the dots are recorded and is to be thinned. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321429 | DOT RECORDING DEVICE, DOT RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREON - A recording medium recording a computer readable computer program thereon, where the computer program enables the computer to generate dot recording data supplied to a dot recording device in order to perform dot recording using the dot recording device which repeats a main scanning pass and a transport based on the dot recording data so that a raster line along a main scanning direction is formed in multiple lines in a sub-scanning direction on a printing medium, where the main scanning pass is for performing the dot recording on the printing medium when an output head having a plurality of nozzles arranged in the sub-scanning direction moves in the main scanning direction, and where the transport is for enabling the printing medium to move in the sub-scanning direction, the computer program enables the computer to implement the functions of: determining a dot reduction degree for reducing the dot recording; setting a recording position of a changing target dot included in the dot recording data, according to the dot reduction degree, based on an order of performing the dot recording, where the changing target dot undergoes at least one of a thinning-out processing where the dot recording is not performed and a dot diameter shrinkage where dot size is reduced; and generating the dot recording data in which the recording position of the changing target dot is set. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321430 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING - An ink composition for ink jet recording contains a colorant, water, an alcohol solvent, and a surfactant. The alcohol solvent contains a water-insoluble alkanediol, a water-soluble 1,2-alkanediol, and a water-soluble symmetrical end-capped alkanediol. The surfactant is a gemini surfactant. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321431 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus and a printing method in which an ejection failure state sensing process is sufficiently carried out while a decrease in printing throughput to be suppressed are provided. The print head includes at least two ejection ports through which different amounts of ink in the same color are ejected; both ejection amounts are equal to or smaller than 5 pl. The printing apparatus carries out a first ejection failure state sensing process for sensing a first ejection ports which have the smallest opening area in the ejection ports formed in the print head. The printing apparatus also carries out a second ejection failure state sensing process for sensing an ejection state in which ink is ejected through all the ejection ports in the print head. When any ejection port is determined to be in an inappropriate ejection state, the printing apparatus carries out compensation printing. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328373 | Two Pass Print Mode Method and Apparatus for Limiting Wind-Related Print Defects - A two pass print mode method and apparatus limits wind-related print defects produced during printing, utilizing a reciprocating carrier of a printer carrying a printhead having an array of columns of actuator-fired fluid-jetting nozzles along a bi-directional scanning path. Due to instructions from a controller, printing proceeds along an initial partial swath on a print medium during a first pass along the scanning path by firing actuators associated with a first plurality of segments of a given column of nozzles. Then, printing proceeds along a final partial swath on the print medium during a second pass along the scanning path by firing actuators associated with a second plurality of segments of the given column of nozzles. Each segment of nozzles of the first and second pluralities includes more than one consecutive nozzle so that gaps are created in the partial swath printing accommodating wind-related effects without causing wind-related print defects. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328374 | FLOW THROUGH DROP DISPENSER - A liquid dispenser includes a liquid supply channel including an exit having a cross sectional area, a liquid return channel, and a liquid dispensing channel including a cross sectional area and an outlet opening. The outlet opening includes an end that is adjacent to the liquid return channel. The cross sectional area of a portion of the liquid dispensing channel that is located at the end of the outlet opening is greater than the cross sectional area of the exit of the liquid supply channel. A liquid supply provides liquid under pressure from the liquid supply channel through the liquid dispensing channel to the liquid return channel. A diverter member is selectively actuatable to divert a portion of the liquid toward outlet opening of the liquid dispensing channel. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328375 | FLOW THROUGH DISPENSER INCLUDING IMPROVED GUIDE STRUCTURE - A liquid dispenser includes a liquid supply channel, a liquid dispensing channel including an outlet opening, and a liquid return channel. A liquid supply provides liquid under pressure from the liquid supply channel through the liquid dispensing channel to the liquid return channel. A diverter member is selectively actuatable to divert a portion of the liquid toward outlet opening of the liquid dispensing channel. A surface is positioned downstream relative to the outlet opening of the liquid dispensing channel and leads to atmosphere. A portion of the surface, when compared to another portion of the surface, includes structure that reduces viscous drag on the portion of the liquid that has been diverted by the diverter member such that drops formed from consecutive portions of the liquid that have been diverted by the diverter member travel with consistent drop characteristics. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328376 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device for recording an image by an interlace system of scanning a specified region repeatedly with use of an ink-jet head having a configuration of a plurality of nozzle heads arranged in a sub-scanning direction, the nozzle head including multiple ink discharged discharge nozzles arranged in the sub-scanning direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328377 | Flexible Circuit For Fluid-Jet Precision-Dispensing Device Cartridge Assembly - A fluid-jet precision-dispensing device cartridge assembly includes a housing, a fluid-jet precision-dispensing device die, and a flexible circuit. The housing has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is non-parallel to the first surface. The housing is insertable in a fluid-jet precision-dispensing device. The die is disposed at the first surface of the housing. The circuit is attached to the housing and wraps around the housing from the first surface to the second surface. The circuit includes electrically conductive traces and contacts that are electrically coupled to the die to transmit power and communicate signals between the device and the die. The circuit includes one or more regions having no functionality in usage of the assembly to precisely dispense fluid. The regions are rigid and/or thermally conductive to improve attachment of the circuit to the housing. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001775 | CLEAR INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK SET, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink jet clear ink containing a polymer fine particle. The polymer fine particle has a core-shell structure obtained by polymerizing an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) as a core polymer in the presence of a shell polymer that is a copolymer having at least a unit derived from an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (a) and a unit derived from a monomer selected from an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and a salt thereof. The α,β-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) includes at least a monomer containing a chain structure saturated alkyl group. | 01-06-2011 |
20110012947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, connected to an ejection head in which a nozzle group configured of nozzles that eject CMY inks of the CMYK color system and a nozzle group configured of nozzles that eject K ink of the CMYK color system are formed at different nozzle densities, that converts inputted image data into print data and outputs the print data to the ejection head, and includes: a first processing device that inputs the image data; and a second processing device communicably connected to the first processing device via a predetermined communication interface. | 01-20-2011 |
20110018918 | PRINTER - In case resolution is set to 360 dpi, each dot is formed on each printing line provided orthogonally to conveying direction at intervals obtained by dividing an inch on a surface tape by 360 lines. Contrarily, in case resolution is set to 180 dpi, each dot array is formed to occupy two printing lines. In case a control unit judges that the number of dot-array-formed printing lines from start of printing till temporary stop of printing with 180 dpi is not equal to that of dot-array-formed printing lines with 360 dpi, a portion of serial arrays of dots to be formed from start of printing till temporary stop of printing with 180 dpi is formed with 360 dpi so that the number of dot-array-formed printing lines from start of printing till temporary stop of printing is made equal to that of dot-array-formed printing lines in printing with 360 dpi. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018919 | CAPACITIVE LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A capacitive load driving circuit that drives a capacitive load, includes: a power supply unit that generates different voltages; a plurality of charge storage elements that are charged with the different voltages generated by the power supply unit; and a load driving section that connects a charge storage element arbitrarily selected from the plurality of charge storage elements to the capacitive load to drive the capacitive load, and connects, when at least two of the charge storage elements are selected, the at least two charge storage elements to the capacitive load in a state where the at least two charge storage elements are connected in series. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018920 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device includes heads that eject electromagnetic wave hardened inks toward a medium and irradiation sections respectively corresponding to the heads. The irradiation sections irradiate the electromagnetic wave hardened inks. A controller controls the heads and the irradiation sections. The controller, when printing, sequentially performs a method that includes the following operations. One head ejects a first ink in a first ejecting operation. An irradiation section corresponding to the head irradiates first electromagnetic ink in a first irradiation operation. A different head ejects another ink toward a pixel on the medium such that the other ink overlaps the first ink, in a second ejecting operation. An irradiation section corresponding to the other head irradiates the other ink in a second irradiation operation. The controller performs the operations such that a contact angle of the other ink relative to the first ink is greater than 90 degrees. | 01-27-2011 |
20110025737 | Fluid Ejecting Apparatus and Fluid Ejecting Method - A fluid ejecting apparatus includes first and second rows of nozzles for ejecting first and second fluids respectively, a mechanism that transports the medium in the row direction, a mechanism that moves the nozzle rows in a direction intersecting the direction of the rows, and a controller that repeats an image formation operation while the medium is transported and the rows of nozzles moved. After forming a first image using the first row of nozzles, a second image is formed on the first image using the second row of nozzles in another image formation operation. For normal image formation, the second nozzles are set further downstream in the nozzle row direction than the first nozzles, and for image formation on a lower end portion of the medium, the second nozzles are set further upstream in the nozzle row direction than they are during normal image formation. | 02-03-2011 |
20110025738 | PRINTER SYSTEM WITH PRINTHEAD CARRIAGE CONNECTED TO INK SUPPLY FROM A SINGLE SIDE - A printing system that has a print zone, a media path extending through the print zone along a paper axis, a printhead carriage with a plurality of printhead mounting sites for mounting a plurality of printhead modules adjacent the print zone such that the printhead modules collectively span the media path, the printhead carriage having a long side extending transverse to the paper axis, the long side having access formations for ink conduits and a plurality of interfaces for connection to the ink conduits to supply ink to each of the printhead modules respectively. All ink for the plurality of printhead modules is supplied by ink conduits extending through the access formations on said long side of the printhead carriage. | 02-03-2011 |
20110025739 | WIDE FORMAT PRINTER WITH PRINTHEAD CARRIAGE CONNECTED TO INK SUPPLY FROM A SINGLE SIDE - A wide format printer that has a print zone, a media path more than 432 mm (17 inches) wide and extending through the print zone along a paper axis, a printhead carriage with a plurality of printhead mounting sites for mounting a plurality of printhead modules adjacent the print zone such that the printhead modules collectively span the media path, the printhead carriage having a long side extending transverse to the paper axis, the long side having access formations for ink conduits and a plurality of interfaces for connection to the ink conduits to supply ink to each of the printhead modules respectively. All ink for the plurality of printhead modules is supplied by ink conduits extending through the access formations on the long side of the printhead carriage. | 02-03-2011 |
20110032291 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD THEREOF - An inkjet head includes an ink chamber, a pressure chamber and a piezoelectric member. The ink chamber includes an ink storage area storing ink, a plurality of dampers filled with the ink to be discharged, and a plurality of nozzles connected to the dampers and discharging the ink. The pressure chamber is disposed on the ink chamber, overlapping at least two of the plurality of dampers, and includes a pressure transmitting medium. The piezoelectric member is disposed on the pressure chamber. The ink is discharged from the nozzles in substantially a same amount through control of a single piezoelectric member at one time. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032292 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD EXECUTED BY THE RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus configured to cause a recording head to move and scan in a reciprocating manner includes a buffer configured to store raster data including multivalued data, a table in which a plurality of dot patterns is defined for a value of the multivalued data and including a dot pattern corresponding to the value, a first information storage unit configured to store an initial value of the dot pattern according to a direction of scanning by the recording head and the value of the multivalued data, a second information storage unit configured to store information indicating an empty raster in which every multivalued data of a raster has a value of “0”, a determination unit configured to execute evaluation of the value of the multivalued data and determination as to whether a raster is the empty raster for each raster, a raster control unit configured to execute control for storing the initial value on the first information storage unit, control for storing the information on the second information storage unit, and control for storing multivalued data on the buffer according to a result of the evaluation and the determination by the determination unit, and a generation unit configured to, based on the initial value stored by the first information storage unit and the table, read the multivalued data from the buffer and generate a dot pattern based on the read multivalued data. | 02-10-2011 |
20110037794 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - A mask of Y for a first pass is a mask in which a checker pattern having a high frequency characteristic is made to be the arrangement of the print permitting pixels, and a mask of C for the first pass is a mask in which a random image having a lower frequency characteristic is made to be the arrangement of the print permitting pixels. Further, each of the masks of Y and C for a second pass has an arrangement that mutually complements the arrangement of the print permitting pixels of the mask for the first pass. By using such masks, unevenness of the permeation speed caused by beading on a printing medium can be reduced. Further, high tolerance for interference to the mask of the prior pass and for influence of external disturbances can be achieved. | 02-17-2011 |
20110050767 | Variable format web press - A web press, in particular a variable format book web press, variable format newspaper web press, or variable format periodical web press, has printing units ( | 03-03-2011 |
20110050768 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A liquid ejection apparatus including: a flushing-operation-data producing section which produces flushing-operation data for flashing of ink; a second-liquid-ejection-data producing section which produces data about ejection of treatment liquid such that (i) the treatment liquid is to be landed on a dot area on which the ink is to be landed upon forming an image dot among dot areas and (ii) an amount of the treatment liquid landed to be on at least one dot area on which the ink is to be landed upon flashing of the ink is made smaller, by referring the flushing-operation data produced by the flushing-operation-data producing section, than an amount of the treatment liquid to be landed on a dot area on which the ink is not to be landed upon flashing; and a second-liquid controlling section which controls a head on the basis of the data produced by the second-liquid-ejection-data producing section. | 03-03-2011 |
20110057972 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including a first nozzle that ejects dye ink; a second nozzle that ejects pigment ink of a color that is the same as the dye ink; and a controller that controls ejection of ink from the first nozzle and the second nozzle. The controller performs a first ejection operation, in which the pigment ink is ejected from the second nozzle after the dye ink is ejected from the first nozzle, for a predetermined position on a medium and performs a second ejection operation, in which the dye ink is ejected from the first nozzle after the pigment ink is ejected from the second nozzle, for a second position on the medium. An amount of the pigment ink per unit area that is ejected in the second ejection operation is made smaller than an amount of the pigment ink per the unit area in the first ejection operation. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063347 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including: first nozzles which discharge a dye ink; second nozzles which discharge a pigment ink of the same color as the dye ink; and a controller which controls the discharge of the inks from the first nozzles and the second nozzles, wherein the controller executes a first discharging operation for discharging the dye ink from the first nozzles and then discharging the pigment ink from the second nozzles at predetermined positions on a medium and executes a second discharging operation for discharging the pigment ink from the second nozzles and then discharging the dye ink from the first nozzles at positions different from the predetermined positions on the medium, and wherein a ratio of the dye ink to the pigment ink in the amount of ink discharged in the second discharging operation per unit area is less than that in the first discharging operation per unit area. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063348 | Liquid Ejection Head, Methods of Manufacturing and Driving the Same, and Image Recording Apparatus - A liquid ejection head includes a piezoelectric actuator that changes volume of a pressure chamber to cause liquid in the pressure chamber to eject from a nozzle connected with the pressure chamber, wherein the piezoelectric actuator is formed into a projecting shape protruding toward the pressure chamber, and displaced in a direction opposite to the pressure chamber when applied with a driving voltage, to increase the volume of the pressure chamber. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063349 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a head unit that ejects ink; and a control unit that causes the head unit to eject ink. In the case where a first image and a second image that is adjacent to the first image are formed, the control unit forms a third image by causing ink to be ejected, in pixels within the second image at the boundary area between the first image and the second image, at an ejection amount that is greater than the amount of ink per unit pixel ejected in order to form the second image. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069100 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - By suppressing deviation of dot-formation positions stemming from insufficient accuracy in conveying a printing medium due to eccentricity of a conveying roller, a printed image in which unevenness is less visible is obtained. An accumulated amount of conveyance errors is decreased by narrowing a nozzle-use range and reducing a conveyance amount over an entire printing region according to a mode used for printing an image in which the coverage of a printing medium is low due to a small number of ink colors to be used, for example, a mode used for printing a monochrome image by using a black ink dominantly in all of the density regions. | 03-24-2011 |
20110074845 | DRIVING METHOD OF LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A driving method of a liquid discharge head including discharge ports, flow paths communicated with the discharge ports, a first actuator provided on the flow paths, a second actuator provided at a position further from the discharge port than the first actuator of the flow paths, and a common liquid chamber communicated with the flow paths, includes: contracting the flow path and expanding the flow path by the first actuator to discharge liquid from the discharge port; starting contraction of the flow path the second actuator when or before flow of liquid from the common liquid chamber to the discharge port in the vicinity of the second actuator, disappears to allow a meniscus of liquid, located at an inner position of the flow path, to project from the discharge port; and starting expansion of the flow path by the second actuator while the meniscus projects from the discharge port. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074846 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet printer includes an ink jet head which jets liquid droplets of an ink onto a recording medium; a scanning mechanism which reciprocates the ink-jet head in a forward scan direction and a backward scan direction; a transport mechanism which transports the recording medium in a transport direction intersecting with the forward and backward scan directions; and a jetting controller which controls the ink-jet head. The jetting controller has a reference jetting amount setting section which sets a reference jetting amount based on an input image data for each of a plurality of scans of the ink-jet head, and a jetting amount adjusting section which makes a jetting amount be smaller than the reference jetting amount with respect to an overlapping area at which liquid droplet jetting areas of the forward scan and the backward scan partially overlap each other. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074847 | INK JET PRINTHEAD MODULE AND INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printhead module adapted for use in a printing apparatus, the ink jet printhead module being capable of receiving address signals and chip selection signals from a printhead drive unit of the printing apparatus. The printhead module includes chip control circuits, each being capable of receiving the address signals and receiving a corresponding one of the chip selection signals. Each chip control circuit includes switching circuits and an ink jetting circuit set. Each switching circuit is capable of receiving a corresponding one of the address signals and the corresponding one of chip selection signals and outputting a switching signal. An ink jetting circuit set includes ink jetting circuits, each being capable of receiving the switching signal from the corresponding switching circuit electrically coupled to the ink jetting circuit and determining whether or not to jet out ink based on the received switching signal. | 03-31-2011 |
20110084994 | PRINTING UP TO EDGES OF PRINTING PAPER WITHOUT PLATEN SOILING - This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head | 04-14-2011 |
20110084995 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH MOVABLE PRINT HEADS AND METHODS THEREOF - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a deposition printing system which includes two or more print units capable of moving with respect to each other during printing and a controller to control movement of the print units to dynamically change the print arrangement during the printing. | 04-14-2011 |
20110090269 | Image forming apparatus - A vibration damping member, for dampening vibration triggered by movement of a carriage, is driven to move by a vibration-damping drive motor that is a different drive source from a drive source of the carriage. The vibration-damping drive motor includes a stepping motor which may be controlled by an input of a pulse. A carriage-position detecting unit for detecting the position of the carriage in a moving direction updates the position count each time the carriage is moved by a predetermined amount. Each time the position count of the carriage-position detecting unit is updated by a predetermined amount, a first pulse generating unit generates a pulse that causes the vibration-damping drive motor to move by one step. The vibration-damping drive motor is driven with the pulse, thereby causing the vibration damping member to move. | 04-21-2011 |
20110090270 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus that ejects a liquid containing a sedimentary component from an ejection nozzle provided in an ejection head includes: a liquid channel that conducts the liquid to the ejection head; a liquid discharge unit that discharges the liquid from the ejection nozzle. The liquid channel is provided with a first channel region and a second channel region; and the liquid discharge unit discharge a predetermined amount of the liquid from the ejection nozzle in the case where the amount of time that has elapsed a predetermined threshold time. | 04-21-2011 |
20110090271 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - In order to stabilize a performance of a pump employed for processing in an inkjet printing apparatus such as sucking ink from a printing head with a low cost configuration and without the need of using any specific detecting unit, the following configuration is employed. Namely, a tube pump having a member with a curved surface aligned with a flexible tube for supporting the tube and a roller which moves while pressing (squeezing) the flexible tube is driven with a DC motor. To keep revolutions always constant, a current PWM control is employed for changing a power applied to the motor according to load fluctuations, and a phase of the roller is determined based on the current PWM value to manage a pressure generated by the pump and a discharge rate. | 04-21-2011 |
20110096110 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that ejects liquid on a medium; a head-moving unit that moves the head in a moving direction; a timer that measures a hold period in which the head does not eject the liquid; and a controller that controls ejection of the liquid from the head in accordance with the hold period, the controller controlling the head to eject the liquid in one of modes including first and second modes. In the first mode, the head ejects the liquid during one of forward scanning and backward scanning in the moving direction, and then ejects the liquid during the forward scanning and the backward scanning in the moving direction. In the second mode, the head ejects the liquid during the forward scanning and the backward scanning in the moving direction. | 04-28-2011 |
20110109672 | AIR EXTRACTION PRINTER - An inkjet printer comprising an ink chamber supplying ink. An air extraction chamber is included that comprises an air chamber, a one-way relief valve for venting of the air chamber to ambient. A compressible member is used for forcing air to be vented from the air chamber through the one-way relief valve and for applying a reduced air pressure to an air permeable membrane while the one-way relief valve is closed. A carriage propels the array of nozzles, the ink chamber, the membrane and the air extraction chamber along a carriage scan path. | 05-12-2011 |
20110109673 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image. | 05-12-2011 |
20110122178 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided are an image processor and an image processing method that are capable of suppressing both density unevenness due to printing position shifts among a group of dots printed by a plurality of relative movements (or a plurality of printing element groups) and graininess. In order to accomplish this, a dot overlap rate in the printing mode in which the density unevenness stands out is made higher than the dot overlap rate in the printing mode in which other defects stand out more than the density unevenness. By doing so, it is possible to suitably adjust the dot overlap rate according to the image characteristic, and output an image having no density unevenness or graininess. | 05-26-2011 |
20110122179 | OVERCURRENT DETECTION FOR DROPLET EJECTORS - An apparatus, method, and a fluid ejection system for detecting electrical shorts in piezoelectric printheads are described. An apparatus includes a piezoelectric actuator, a transistor whose drain is connected to the piezoelectric actuator, a diode that is connected to a source and the drain of the transistor, a detection circuit configured to detect whether a voltage at the drain of the transistor is above a predefined voltage, and a disabling circuit configured to turning off the transistor in response to detecting that voltage at the drain of the transistor is above the predefined voltage. | 05-26-2011 |
20110128315 | LENS SHEET AND PRINTER - A lens sheet has an external shape of a rectangle or a square defined by four sheet ends in a vertical direction thereto. The lens sheet includes: a first surface, on which a plurality of lenses extending in a direction inclined to one of the sheet ends are arranged in parallel with each other; and a second surface opposite to the first surface, on which a printing is to be performed or to which a printed medium is to be stuck. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134173 | METHOD OF OPERATING PRINTER WITH INCORRECTLY OPERATING NOZZLES - A method is provided of operating a printer which has a printhead having ejection nozzles configured to print an array of rows and columns of dots and control means. The method includes monitoring for incorrectly printed columns with the control means, and increasing the duration of a signal delivered with the control means to correctly operating nozzles neighbouring incorrectly operating nozzles associated with the incorrectly printed columns. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141169 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - To provide an apparatus and a method that are capable of recording by performing the number of recording scans appropriate for the level of color non-uniformity. | 06-16-2011 |
20110141170 | Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus and Recording Method Therefor - A recording apparatus has a recording head, a platen, and a first hole. The recording head includes a dot formation element array, and the platen holds a recording medium opposite the recording head. The first hole is disposed in an area of the platen opposite a downstream portion of the dot formation element array and guides ink discarded outside an end of the recording medium when the end is printed without a margin. Alternatively or additionally, a second hole is formed in an area of the platen opposite an upstream portion of the dot formation element array, and the platen guides ink, which is discarded outside an end of the recording medium when the end is printed without a margin, to the second hole. | 06-16-2011 |
20110148958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHIC SECURITY TO A DOCUMENT AT THE TIME OF PRINTING - A method of printing an image having a graphic security element included therein includes receiving main image data representing a main image, receiving graphic security element data representing a graphic security element to be included in the main image, receiving a request to print the main image, responsive to receiving the request to print the main image, determining particular pixels of the main image data that are to be shifted based on the graphic security element data, and causing a plurality of ink deposits to be deposited on the print medium based on the main image data including causing the position of each of the ink deposits on the print medium that is determined to correspond to shifted pixels to be shifted relative to a normal position that would normally result from the main image data. Also, system that implements the method is provided. | 06-23-2011 |
20110148959 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method for printing a high-definition image while improving glossiness of the image surface without causing complication and enlargement of the apparatus. A plurality of inks are ejected from first and second printing heads so that a weighted average of a printing rate for each scan regarding an ink having the highest lightness becomes the largest among the plurality of inks and so that a maximum value regarding the printing rate of the ink having the highest lightness becomes larger than those of other inks. | 06-23-2011 |
20110148960 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS HAVING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - The opening area and shape of ejection orifices provided in an ejection orifice member influence the amount of liquid droplet. Therefore, it is necessary to check the opening area and shape of the ejection orifices in detail. For this purpose, in a liquid ejection head having ejection orifices used for ejecting liquid using energy generated by energy generating elements and a dummy ejection orifice having the same shape as the ejection orifices and not used for ejection of liquid, an examination member is provided at a position facing the dummy ejection orifice. | 06-23-2011 |
20110148961 | DRIVING APPARATUS OF INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head driving apparatus, wherein serial data indicating emission or non emission of nozzles respectively for a plurality of heads, is latched and memorized, and the nozzles are driven respectively based on the data memorized, the inkjet head driving apparatus having: an emission timing signal outputting device disposed in common for a plurality of heads so as to output a plurality of emission timing signals in one emission cycle; a setting device disposed respectively for the plurality of the heads so as to select the sequential emission timing signals at which emission starts synchronously, among the emission timing signals outputted from the emission timing signal outputting device in one emission cycle. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157265 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus of the present invention includes an image data storage unit, a record head, a head controller, an image data changing unit, an edge detection unit, a thin-line image portion judging unit, and a thin-line blank region judging unit. The image data changing unit changes an image data such that an amount of reduction in a recording droplets ejected onto a region including a dot region where an image dots constituting at least an edge of a thin-line image portion are formed is large when the thin-line image portion neighbors a thin-line blank region, as compared to a case where the thin-line image portion does not neighbor the thin-line blank region. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157266 | RECORDING HEAD CONTROL METHOD AND DOT IMPACT PRINTER - A recording head control method prevents head coil burnout caused by heat output while suppressing a drop in printer throughput. A control method for a recording head | 06-30-2011 |
20110157267 | REUSABLE PAPER MEDIA WITH COMPATIBILITY MARKINGS AND PRINTER WITH INCOMPATIBLE MEDIA SENSOR - A reusable image forming medium, including a substrate; an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, wherein an irradiation of the imaging layer produces an image; and a signature material coated on or impregnated into the substrate or the imaging layer, the signature material being detectable by a sensor. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164079 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING EXECUTION UNIT - In the control device, the generating portion generates control data to be used by the controlling portion to form a specific image. The generating portion generates the control data such that in a first case where the printing execution unit forms the end image, the head drive portion drives the print head to eject ink droplet only from nozzles classified into the downstream nozzle group toward the downstream end region, that in a second case where the printing execution unit forms the center image the head drive portion drives the print head to eject ink droplet from the plurality of nozzles including the upstream and downstream nozzle groups toward the center region, and that, in the first case, the first nozzle does not eject ink droplet toward the center region for forming a specific part, and such that in the second case, the second nozzle ejects ink droplet for forming the specific part. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164080 | FLUID-JET DISPENSING DEVICE - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with fluid-jet dispensers are described. In one embodiment, a method ( | 07-07-2011 |
20110169884 | METHOD FOR FORMING CONDUCTOR PATTERN, WIRING BOARD, AND LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING APAPRATUS - A method for forming a conductor pattern includes: forming a conductor pattern precursor by ejecting liquid droplets of a conductor pattern forming ink by a liquid droplet ejecting method onto a substrate, and drying the liquid droplets, thereby forming a conductor pattern precursor having a pad part and a wiring part connected to the pad part on the substrate; and firing the precursor, thereby forming the conductor pattern, wherein in the formation of the conductor pattern precursor, the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are ejected in such a manner that positions where the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are attached form plural concentric annular shapes within a pad forming region where the pad part is to be formed on the substrate. | 07-14-2011 |
20110181639 | Inkjet Printhead and Printing System with Boundary Layer Control - An inkjet printhead, printing system and a method of inkjet printing employ a boundary layer control apparatus to control a boundary layer of air flow surrounding a nozzle opening of an inkjet pen. The printhead includes the pen supported by a housing that is configured so that the nozzle opening both faces a substrate and is spaced from the substrate by a gap. The apparatus is a structure adjacent to the nozzle opening and supported at a leading edge of the housing ahead of the nozzle opening relative to a direction of movement of the substrate. The structure is configured to extend into the gap. The printing system further includes the substrate. The method includes moving the substrate below the printhead, controlling the boundary layer, and depositing an ink onto the moving substrate. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181640 | Driver circuit, driver apparatus, and image forming apparatus - A driver circuit is used for driving a plurality of groups of switch elements connected between a power supply terminal and a common terminal. Each switch element includes anode connected to the power supply terminal, a cathode, and a gate. The anode is connected to the power supply and the cathode connected to a common terminal. The gate controls electrical conduction between the anode and the cathode. The driver circuit includes a switch circuit connected between the power supply terminal and the common terminal, and a driver circuit into which a drive current flows. The switch circuit is in parallel with the switch elements, and the switch circuit electrically connects or disconnects between the power supply terminal and the common terminal in response to a control signal supplied thereto. A transmission line having a specific characteristic impedance, connected between the common terminal and the driver circuit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181641 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image recording apparatus has a printing unit and a controller. The printing unit prints—using a removable color material. The controller is configured to control the printing unit to print images on a paper over plural passes in a divided manner. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181642 | LIQUID EJECTION CONTROL DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, AND LIQUID EJECTION CONTROL METHOD - A printer includes an intermediate buffer that holds plain data produced by subjecting print data to extraction processing and microweave processing, and a control buffer that holds head control data produced by subjecting plain data to vertical-horizontal conversion processing. The control buffer is allocated storage capacity that allows it to hold data equivalent to one impression and data equivalent to one-fourth an impression (one pass in printing at four passes per impression). | 07-28-2011 |
20110187773 | NOZZLE LAYOUT FOR FLUID DROPLET EJECTING - A fluid ejection apparatus includes a printhead having a substrate. The substrate includes a nozzle face having a width direction and a length direction. The nozzle face includes a set of four columns of nozzles oriented in a column direction substantially along the width direction of the nozzle face, and the nozzles in each column are positioned on a straight line along the column. A spacing between two adjacent columns of the four adjacent columns is different than a spacing between another two adjacent columns of the four adjacent columns. In some implementations, a controller can control timing of ejection of fluid droplets from the nozzles to deposit lines of fluid droplets on a medium, and the medium can travel relative to the nozzle face. | 08-04-2011 |
20110193902 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a conveyance device which conveys paper; an inkjet head which ejecting droplets of colored ink onto the paper conveyed by the conveyance device so as to form an image on the paper; a transparent liquid deposition device which deposits a transparent liquid onto a blank background portion of the paper conveyed by the conveyance device; a transparent liquid deposition volume determination device which determines a deposition volume of the transparent liquid to be deposited onto the paper, according to printing information that is required for printing the image on the paper; and a transparent liquid deposition control device which controls the transparent liquid deposition device in such a manner that the transparent liquid with the deposition volume determined by the transparent liquid deposition volume determination device is deposited onto the blank background portion of the paper. | 08-11-2011 |
20110199407 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides, in an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium with ejection liquids ejected from plural heads, a technique for enabling easy positioning of the respective plural heads. The image forming apparatus includes: plural heads including a reference head having a positioned section and configured to respectively eject ejection liquids onto a recording medium; a head base having plural head positioning sections on which the plural heads are respectively mounted to be positioned, whereon a reference-head positioning section on which the reference head should be mounted in cooperation with the positioned section of the reference head performs positioning at a degree of freedom of position adjustment lower than that of the other head positioning sections; and a conveying unit configured to convey the recording medium to a position opposed to the head base. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199408 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When power is turned “ON”, power starts to be supplied to a reading unit and a display unit so that images stored in a storage unit can be displayed, and when the images are instructed to be displayed, a viewing system screen is displayed. The power starts to be supplied to an image forming mechanism at a timing when an instruction for switching the viewing system screen to a formation screen, and when an instruction for forming the image being displayed on the formation screen is provided, the image is formed by the image forming mechanism. In this manner, it is possible to prevent wasteful power consumption caused when the power is supplied to the image forming mechanism while the image is displayed on the viewing system screen. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199409 | Printing Method and Printer - A printing method and a printer for implementing the printing method are disclosed. When a printhead including a first end and a second end sequentially prints a first area and a second area which are adjacent to each other, the method comprises performing printing by means of the printer by relatively moving locations of the printhead and a print object in such a way that a surface printed by the second end in the first area and a surface printed by the second end in the second area face each other. The printhead rotates around a rotational axis comprising at least one point on the printhead, one end of the printhead, a center of the printhead, or both ends of the printhead. | 08-18-2011 |
20110205269 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF A LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - In a highly integrated printing head forming an image with continuously ejected ink droplets, there are disadvantages of a high cost for a control circuit and wirings due to a large number of the wirings for charging electrode, a difficulty for ensuring electrical insulation between the wirings having a narrow pitch and a high density, and an induced voltage in the wirings due to the mutual induction therebetween. Therefore, the present invention is to divide a plurality of nozzles into a plurality of groups, shift production timings to each other between the groups, and apply a charging voltage via a common wiring to which the charging electrodes corresponding to each other between the groups are commonly connected. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205270 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD WIRING MEMBER AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A wiring member for a liquid ejection head enables reducing the size of the liquid ejection head. A flexible printed circuit | 08-25-2011 |
20110205271 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CARRIAGE TRAVEL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage configured to travel with a recording head configured to eject liquid droplets being mounted thereon; a first encoder including a first encoder scale placed along a traveling direction of the carriage and a first encoder sensor configured to read the first encoder scale; an antiphase member configured to travel in opposite phase from the carriage; a second encoder including a second encoder scale placed along a traveling direction of the antiphase member and a second encoder sensor configured to read the second encoder scale; and a control part configured to control the travel of the carriage in accordance with the detection result of the first encoder and the detection result of the second encoder. | 08-25-2011 |
20110210995 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A setting unit that can set the start time when a user starts using a apparatus and a control unit that can make the apparatus enter a non-operation state in either first standby mode or second standby mode where the apparatus can be actuated from the non-operation state in a shorter time than in the first standby mode are provided. The control unit performs control to determine to which of the first standby mode and the second standby mode when the apparatus enters the non-operation state, based on the time difference between a time when an instruction to turn off the apparatus is issued and the start time set with the setting unit. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210996 | DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE THAT APPLIES TREATING AGENT TO RECORDING MEDIUM - A droplet ejection device includes a head that ejects droplets onto a recording medium so as to form an image, an extract unit that extracts a part of the image as a specific image portion, and a control unit that controls a treating-agent application member to apply treating agent to a first section and a second section of the recording medium. The specific image portion is formed in the first section, and at least a part of a non-specific image portion of the image is formed in the second section. When a remaining amount of the treating agent is less than a first amount, the treating-agent application member applies the treating agent to the second section by an amount less than an amount of the treating agent that is applied to the second section when the remaining amount is not less than the first amount. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210997 | INKJET PRINTHEAD SUBSTRATE, INKJET PRINTHEAD, AND INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printhead substrate comprises: a pair of individual conductive layers configured to supply electrical power to a heat generation element; a first common conductive layer configured to be connected to one of the pair of individual conductive layers; a second common conductive layer configured to be connected to the other of the pair of individual conductive layers; and an isolation layer configured to be provided between the one of the pair of individual conductive layers and the first common conductive layer, and between the other of the pair of individual conductive layers and the second common conductive layer, wherein the isolation layer is formed from a conductive material which has a lower solubility in ink than a material used for the pairs of individual conductive layers, the first common conductive layer and the second common conductive layer. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210998 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method are provided that are capable of implementing an overcoating in which an interference color of a particular wavelength is not generated, without consuming more clear ink than necessary to overcoat the image. For this, a first application step is provided that prints clear ink during the printing of the image on the print medium using color ink, or after the printing step has been completed, and after taking time for the applied clear ink to fix, a second application step is provided that prints clear ink again. Accordingly, raised portions are formed by the clear ink drops applied at the second application step, on the uniform layer of clear ink formed at the first application step, and it is possible to cause light of various wavelengths (colors) to be included in the light reflected off of the print object. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210999 | DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE OF ACTUATOR AND INKJET PRINTER PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - There is provided a drive control device including: a wiring board connected to an actuator; two driver ICs each having a plurality of common signal input terminals and selection signal input terminals arranged in one direction; and a control section transmitting a plurality of types of common signals and selection signals to the two driver ICs, respectively, in which the two driver ICs are disposed to face to each other on the wiring board so that the common signal input terminals in the respective driver ICs are each arranged in reverse directions to each other, and the paired common signal input terminals that are disposed in the one direction in the same order when counted from one side are wired respectively. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211000 | Inkjet Recording Head And Inkjet Recording Apparatus Having The Same - An inkjet recording head includes a passage communicating with a discharge port for discharging ink, a discharging heater provided in the passage for generating energy to discharge ink from the discharge port, and a detecting unit provided in the passage for detecting a temperature of ink that changes in accordance with heat energy generated by the detecting unit and a flow of ink in the passage. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216113 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING LANDING POSITIONS OF LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus including a first carriage having at least two first recording heads, a second carriage separatably dockable with the first carriage, a pattern forming unit to control the at least two first recording heads to form on a recording medium adjustment patterns for correcting a shift in landing positions of liquid droplets ejected from the at least two first recording heads, a pattern detector provided to the first carriage to read the adjustment patterns, and a landing position corrector to correct the shift in the landing positions of the liquid droplets based on a result obtained by the pattern detector. The at least two first recording heads form multiple rows of the adjustment patterns, and the pattern detector successively reads at least two rows of the multiple rows of the adjustment patterns without docking and separation of the first and second carriages. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216114 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing apparatus includes a head having a slow-permeation-black-nozzle-group which discharges slow-permeation-black-ink, and an excessive-permeation-black-nozzle-group which are arranged at the same pitch as the slow-permeation-black-nozzle-group and are deviated from the slow-permeation-black-nozzle-group by ½ pitch in a sub scanning direction, and a control unit which controls scanning of the head in a main scanning direction and ink discharging through each group. In the printing apparatus, the control unit controls to perform printing in any one of a plurality of printing modes including a normal printing mode in which printing is performed such that slow-permeation-black-ink is discharged through the slow-permeation-black-nozzle-group while excessive-permeation-black-ink is not discharged through the excessive-permeation-black-nozzle-group, and a high-speed printing mode in which printing is performed such that slow-permeation-black-ink is discharged through the slow-permeation-black-nozzle-group and excessive-permeation-black-ink is discharged through the excessive-permeation-black-nozzle-group. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221804 | System And Method For Improving Throughput For Printing Operations In An Indirect Printing System - A printer is configured with a controller that transforms operation of the printer to increase throughput. The printer includes an image receiving member, a printhead configured to eject ink drops onto the image receiving member to form an ink image, a transfix roller configured to move towards and away from the image receiving member to form a transfixing nip with the image receiving member selectively, a release agent applicator configured to engage the image receiving member selectively to apply release agent to the rotatable imaging member, and a controller configured to generate firing signals that operate the printhead from image data and to transform operation of the printer from a first printing process sequence to a second printing process sequence in response to a coverage parameter for image data to be printed being less than a predetermined threshold. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221805 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device for carrying out printing on a translucent printing medium includes: a print head having a first applying portion for applying a first color material onto the printing medium, a second applying portion for applying a second color material, and a third applying portion for applying an opaque specialty ink; a conveying portion for conveying the printing medium relative to the print head; and a printing control portion configured to execute printing according to a printing mode in which a first color-producing layer of the first color material is formed on the conveying printing medium using the first applying portion, an opaque light-blocking layer of the specialty ink is formed using the third applying portion, and a second color-producing layer of the second color material is formed over the light-blocking layer using the second applying portion after the light-blocking layer is formed. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221806 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PRINTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention allows for printing a high quality image based on print data which is obtained by dividing multivalue image data into portions, one for each scan, and quantizing the divided portions of image data. To this end, multivalue input data is divided into input pass data for each scan, which is then corrected using error data. The corrected input values are added up to determine a total corrected input value. The total corrected input value is quantized into a total output value, which has fewer gradation levels than the input data. The total output value is then distributed unevenly among a plurality of printing scans to generate print data for each scan. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221807 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device includes a print head having a specialty gloss ink ejection head for ejecting a specialty gloss ink that creates a special gloss effect and a dye-based color ink ejection head for ejecting a dye-based color ink, and an ejection control unit configured to carry out ejection of the specialty gloss ink from the specialty gloss ink ejection head and ejection of the dye-based color ink from the dye-based color ink ejection head, and to carry out printing of a special gloss area with the specialty gloss ink and printing of a reproduction area onto the special gloss area with the dye-based color ink. The ejection control unit has a first printing mode for carrying out printing of the reproduction area in a main scan that chronologically follows a main scan of the print head in which printing of the special gloss area is carried out. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221808 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING REACTION SOLUTION DOT SHAPE INFORMATION - A reaction solution dot shape information obtainment method to be employed for a transfer type inkjet recording method including applying a reaction solution to aggregate a color material component contained in an ink onto an image forming surface of an intermediate transfer member, forming an intermediate image by applying the ink containing the color material component onto the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer member onto which the reaction solution is applied, and forming an image by transferring the intermediate image from the image forming surface to a recording medium by pressing the recording medium to the image forming surface on which the intermediate image is formed, includes measuring a shape of an ink dot of the intermediate image formed on the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer member or the image transferred onto the recording medium, and obtaining shape information of a reaction solution dot from a measurement result of the ink dot shape. | 09-15-2011 |
20110227973 | Direct Marking Printer Having A User Configurable Print Resolution - A modular printing device has been developed that may be configured with different numbers of ink colors and ink types and with a different cross-process direction print resolution for each ink color and ink type. The modular printing device configurable to print with multiple combinations of ink colors and ink types at different print resolutions includes a plurality of printhead arrays, each printhead array being configured to eject ink onto an image receiving surface at a first print resolution in a cross-process direction, a plurality of ink supplies, each ink supply being configured to store ink and to provide ink to one printhead array in the plurality of printhead arrays, and a controller configured to operate the plurality of printhead arrays at one of at least two combinations of ink colors and ink types, each combination identifying an ink color or an ink type to be ejected by each printhead array and the controller operating the printhead arrays ejecting a same ink color or a same ink type at a print resolution in the cross-process direction corresponding to the number of printhead arrays ejecting the same ink color or the same ink type. | 09-22-2011 |
20110227974 | CONTROLLER FOR ENCODING TAGS FOR PRINTING BY PRINTHEAD - A controller is provided for encoding tags to be printed by a printhead controlled by the controller. The controller has an input at which to receive a tag structure template having at least one predetermined mark position, an input at which to receive fixed data bits, an input at which to receive variable data bits, and a dot generator which uses the input tag structure template, and fixed and variable data bits for outputting, for at least one mark position of a respective tag, a single bit indicating if a dot is to be provided at the at least one mark position, for the respective tag. | 09-22-2011 |
20110227975 | PRINTHEAD INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING POWER MONITORING - A printhead integrated circuit is provided having a substrate having a plurality of ejection nozzles, actuation circuitry positioned on the substrate for operatively actuating the nozzles to eject drops of printing fluid, and a controller configured to monitor the power required to eject a printing fluid drop from each nozzle. The controller causes deactivation of the nozzles, and compensation with other nozzles, when the controller monitors a required power that exceeds a predetermined required power. The nozzles are arranged in staggered rows on the substrate to allow for close packing of the nozzles. | 09-22-2011 |
20110227976 | INK JET RECORDING INK, INK JET IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The invention provides an ink jet recording ink containing a self-dispersion pigment to a surface of which an anionic functional group represented by the following general formula (1) is bonded directly or through another atomic group, an ammonium salt of an organic carboxylic acid, water, and a water-soluble compound having a hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity coefficient of 0.26 or more as defined by the following equation (A), the ink having a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less, | 09-22-2011 |
20110234659 | DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE THAT ADJUSTS INK EJECTION AMOUNT - A droplet ejection device includes a first determining unit that determines a first amount of liquid on an image pixel basis based on both a second amount and an ejection pattern both obtained from image data, actuator that ejects the first amount of the liquid, a second determining unit that determines a third amount of treating agent on an image pixel basis based on a difference between the first and second amounts, such that a density of the liquid corresponding to a combination of the first amount of the liquid and the third amount of the treating agent comes closer to a density of the liquid corresponding to the second amount of the liquid when there is a difference between the first and second amounts, and a treating-agent application member that applies the third amount of the treating agent to a recording medium. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234660 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A printing head configured to apply white light-blocking ink, specialty gloss ink, and color ink is controlled, and the inks are applied so that the color ink, the specialty gloss ink, and the white light-blocking ink are formed in this order onto a printing medium having light-transmissive properties. When the printing medium is viewed from the surface on which ink has not been formed, a white ink layer is formed behind the color ink layer and the metallic ink layer, and light-blocking properties can be ensured. Because the amount of the metallic ink can be reduced, adequate expression of the color ink can be ensured. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234661 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided which, when forming an image using a plurality of different inks, can produce a satisfactory image free from problematical levels of density unevenness, graininess and insufficient density with any of these inks. To this end, when printing on pixel areas of a print medium by a plurality of relative movements between the printing unit and the print medium, the dot overlap rate of an ink that tends to show density unevenness is set higher than that of an ink that tends to show other image impairments more conspicuously than the density unevenness. This results in a good image that eliminates such image impairments as density unevenness, graininess and density insufficiency in the entire color gamut. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234662 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Liquid ejecting apparatus having ink-jet head and pre-coating head from which ink for forming an image on recording medium and pre-coating liquid reacting with the ink are respectively ejected onto respective predetermined first and second areas of conveyor belt provided for feeding the recording medium, during maintenance operation, wherein the ejected ink and pre-coating liquid are removed from the first and second areas of the conveyor belt by respective blades of respective ink and liquid cleaning mechanisms, when the first and second areas of the conveyor belt are spaced apart from the blades of the respective liquid and ink cleaning mechanisms, whereby the ejected ink and pre-coating liquid do not mix and react with each other during the maintenance operation. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234663 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a first ejecting head for ejecting a black ink; a second ejecting head disposed upstream of the first head and configured to eject a liquid that acts on an ink; third ejecting heads disposed downstream of the second head and configured to respectively eject color inks, the third ejecting heads including a specific third ejecting head disposed between the first and second heads; a head moving mechanism configured to move the specific third head between a print position and a retracted position; and a controller which controls the apparatus and which includes, an image-data storage portion, a head control portion configured to control the heads, and a head-movement control portion configured to control the head moving mechanism to move the specific third head from the print position to the retracted position when monochrome printing is conducted in which only the black ink is ejected. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234664 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DESIGNING SAME AND METHOD OF IMPROVING IMAGE FORMATION QUALITY - An inkjet image forming apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having an ejection surface in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged two-dimensionally; a scanning device which conveys at least one of the liquid ejection head and an image formation receiving medium on which liquid ejected from the plurality of nozzles is deposited, to cause relative movement between the image formation receiving medium and the liquid ejection head in a first direction; a drive force generating device which generates drive force for driving the scanning device; and a meshing transmission mechanism which transmits the drive force generated by the drive force generating device to the scanning device by a meshing mechanism, wherein: when Pv represents a spatial period obtained by converting a pitch of meshing teeth of the meshing transmission mechanism to an amount of the relative movement in the first direction on the image formation receiving medium, and when OSy represents an offset distance in the first direction of a pair of nozzles which form dots that are mutually adjacent in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the image formation receiving medium, of the plurality of nozzles arranged two-dimensionally, then relationship of OSy≈k×Pv (where k is a natural number) is satisfied. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234665 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DESIGNING SAME AND METHOD OF IMPROVING IMAGE FORMATION QUALITY - An inkjet image forming apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having an ejection surface in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged two-dimensionally; a scanning device which conveys at least one of the liquid ejection head and an image formation receiving medium on which liquid ejected from the plurality of nozzles is deposited, to cause relative movement between the image formation receiving medium and the liquid ejection head in a first direction; and a member which vibrates at a fixed frequency that is independent of a speed of the relative movement caused by the scanning device in such a manner that relative vibration is caused between the image formation receiving medium and the plurality of nozzles, wherein when vp represents a relative scanning speed produced by the scanning device in forming an image on the image formation receiving medium by the relative movement and droplet ejection from the liquid ejection head, fv represents the fixed frequency, and OSy represents an offset distance in the first direction of a pair of nozzles which form dots that are mutually adjacent in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the image formation receiving medium, of the plurality of nozzles arranged two-dimensionally, then relationship of OSy≈k×vp/fv (where k is a natural number) is satisfied. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234666 | METHOD FOR ALIGNING A PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS AND A DEVICE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS - The invention relates to a method for aligning a plurality of elements with each other, each element having a position and a positioning range, the method comprising the steps of determining the position of each element, determining the positioning range of each element, determining a common positioning range of the plurality of elements, based on the positioning ranges determined in the previous step, the common positioning range being comprised in each positioning range, establishing a reference position lying within the common positioning range and aligning the plurality of elements with the reference position. The invention also comprises a device suitable to apply the method according to the invention. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234667 | INK JET IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet image forming method, wherein an ink is applied to plain paper in a fixed amount of 0.5 to 6.0 pl, contains a self-dispersion pigment, an organic carboxylic acid salt, water and a water-soluble compound having a hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity coefficient of 0.26 or more, and has a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less, and when the total amount of inks applied to a fundamental matrix for forming an image is 5.0 pl/cm | 09-29-2011 |
20110242159 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device has: a droplet ejecting head that ejects droplets with respect to a recording medium and can form dots of plural diameters; and a control unit that, on the basis of image data expressing a tone value of each pixel in an image to be formed on the recording medium, controls sizes of droplets ejected from the droplet ejecting head such that, in a case in which the tone value is within a predetermined tone range, first dots, whose diameter is greater than a predetermined diameter, are formed at a recording rate that satisfies a predetermined formula, and second dots, whose diameter is less than or equal to the predetermined diameter, are formed between the first dots at a recording rate corresponding to the tone value. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242160 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus including: a head jetting liquid droplets from nozzles; and a controller controlling the head to perform a recording jetting-operation for jetting the liquid droplets toward a recording medium from the nozzles at each of drive periods, and a flushing operation for performing maintenance on the nozzles by jetting the liquid droplets from the nozzles prior to the recording jetting-operation. The controller controls the head so that with respect to each of the nozzles, a total liquid discharge amount in the flushing operation becomes less in a case of jetting a liquid droplet at a first drive period in the recording jetting-operation, in comparison with a case of not jetting the liquid droplet at the first drive period. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242161 | PRINT HEAD - A print head is provided in which a plurality of printing elements, switching elements and driving circuits that are adjacent to each other are divided into groups. The print head includes a buffer circuit. The buffer circuit receives input from signal lines corresponding to binary block selection data for selecting a block, the block being formed by selecting and collecting one printing element from each group. The buffer circuit also outputs to each logic element of a block selection circuit via signal lines, provided in the same number as the signal lines corresponding to binary block selection data. Each logic element selects a block based on the block selecting data, and only one bit of the logic levels of the signal lines input to a buffer circuit is inverted between two adjacent logic elements. An inverter is provided for that one bit of inversion. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242162 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus having a missing dot detection function capable of performing rapid and accurate missing dot detection with a simple configuration is provided. A liquid ejecting apparatus having a recording head that performs an ejection of ink droplets through nozzle orifices toward a recording sheet includes the recording head having a pair of electrodes electrically disconnected from each other and disposed around the nozzle orifices, wherein the ink droplets have a conductive property; continuity detector that detects the electrodes are electrically connected or disconnected during the ejection; and control means that controls the ejection of the ink droplets by the recording head. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242163 | WIRING SUBSTRATE UNIT AND PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME - A wiring substrate unit is provided. The unit includes: first and second wiring substrates, first and second input portions respectively formed in marginal portions of the first and second wiring substrates, and first and second output contact points respectively formed on one surfaces of the first and second wiring substrates. A through hole is formed in the first wiring substrate to correspond to the second output contact point; a cutout is formed either at a position adjacent to the first input portion of the marginal portion of the first wiring substrate or at a position adjacent to the second input portion of the marginal portion of the second wiring substrate; and one of the first and second input portions is exposed from the cutout. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242164 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - This disclosure discloses a recording apparatus comprising: a placing device capable of placing a recording medium; a discharging device that discharges ink; a radiating device that radiates the ultraviolet rays; a driving device that moves said placing device; a batch control portion that controls said discharging device and said radiating device so as to discharge said ink and to radiate ultraviolet rays in a predetermined first radiation amount; a primary control portion that controls said discharging device and said radiating device so as to discharge said ink and to radiate ultraviolet rays in a second radiation amount; a secondary control portion that controls said driving device to a work area; and a tertiary control portion that controls said driving device and said radiating device so as to move said placing device to a processing area, and to radiate said ultraviolet rays till a predetermined curing stage is exceeded. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242165 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A liquid ejection apparatus, including: a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium in a predetermined conveying direction, a first head for ejecting first liquid; a second head for ejecting second liquid for coagulating or precipitating components of the first liquid, and disposed upstream of the first head in the conveying direction; and a controller, wherein a pair of second ejection openings of the second head are arranged side by side, wherein the second liquid is to be ejected respectively from the pair of second ejection openings at different timings onto a pair of unit areas arranged side by side, and wherein the controller controls the second head so as to reduce an amount of the second liquid ejected from at least one of the pair of second ejection openings, where an amount of the second liquid to be ejected from one of the pair of second ejection openings at an earlier one of the different timings is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242166 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a main liquid ejecting head body, in which is formed a liquid flow channel through which a liquid flows, that ejects the liquid from a nozzle opening using a pressurizing unit; a driving board configured so as to supply power to the pressurizing unit; a connector provided at an end portion of the driving board; and a holding member configured so as to hold the driving board in a bent state and erected relative to one end surface of the main liquid ejecting head body. The holding member has a stopping portion that holds an end of the driving board in which the connector is provided, and the configuration is such that the stopping portion prevents the driving board from opening in the direction of the bend. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242167 | Method And Apparatus For High-Speed Multicolor Inkjet Printing - Versatility and high resolution are imparted to a high-speed printing apparatus by depositing separate colors of inkjet ink, under computer control, directly onto the blanket cylinder(s) for transfer to a printable substrate held on an impression cylinder, thus eliminating the need for printing plates and making it possible to electronically change the image or any part thereof from one impression to the next via a computer program. A plurality of inkjet heads may also successively deposit inks of different consistency directly on one or more blanket rollers under the control of a computer. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242168 | Method for Nozzle Velocity Control - A voltage is applied to an electrode positioned in contact with a piezoelectric layer, the electrode having a surface area. A deflection of the piezoelectric layer is measured in response to the applied voltage. The surface area of the electrode is reduced based at least in part on the measured deflection. Reducing the surface area of the electrode reduces the actuated area of the piezoelectric layer. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249049 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus is provided that can perform printing without degrading printing quality. In the present invention, correction for a head-to-sheet distance change is performed for both forward printing and backward printing during a multi-path printing operation. | 10-13-2011 |
20110261096 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A liquid ejection apparatus including: a head having an ejection face having ejection openings for ejecting liquid onto a recording medium; a convey belt that has a support region for supporting the recording medium and a preliminary ejection region onto which the liquid is ejected in preliminary ejection and that conveys the recording medium in a conveying direction, wherein the preliminary ejection is ejection not contributing to image recording; and a controller which controls the head and the convey belt based on preliminary ejection data such that, until a specific length of time has passed from the ejection of the liquid onto the preliminary ejection region, liquid is landed on a position in the preliminary ejection region in current ejection, which position does not overlap at least one position of the liquid landed after the ejection of the liquid. | 10-27-2011 |
20110267389 | METHODS FOR PRINTING A PRINT MEDIUM, ON A WEB, OR A PRINTED SHEET OUTPUT - A method for printing a print medium applies ink to a surface and ejects drops of an aqueous solution onto the print medium to define image and non-image areas. The ejection of each drop is individually controlled. Ink from the surface is transferred to the image areas of the print medium. Methods of printing on a web and for printing a printed sheet output of a press are also disclosed. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267390 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEPOSITING FILMS - The disclosure relates to a method for depositing films on a substrate which may form part of an LED or other types of display. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus for depositing ink on a substrate. The apparatus includes a chamber for receiving ink; a discharge nozzle having an inlet port and an outlet port, the discharge nozzle receiving a quantity of ink from the chamber at the inlet port and dispensing the quantity of ink from the outlet port; and a dispenser for metering the quantity of ink from the chamber to the inlet port of the discharge nozzle; wherein the chamber receives ink in liquid form having a plurality of suspended particles and the quantity of ink is pulsatingly metered from the chamber to the discharge nozzle; and the discharge nozzle evaporates the carrier liquid and deposits the solid particles on the substrate. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267391 | INKJET PRINTER AND RECOVERY METHOD FOR A PRINT HEAD - An inkjet printer comprising: a print head for printing by discharging ink droplets from nozzles; a recovery process unit that executes a print head recovery process; a clock unit that counts time; a print operation measuring unit that acquires printing frequency per unit time; and a memory unit that memorizes the printing frequency per unit time; wherein the recovery process unit executes the print head recovery process based on the printing frequency per unit time in the memory. | 11-03-2011 |
20110273497 | RECORDING HEAD - A recording head includes: a recording element substrate having a recording element and a logic circuit cofigured to control driving of the recording element; and an electric wiring member cofigured to provide a wiring layer that has a first group of a plurality of terminals, a second group of a plurality of terminals, and a plurality of signal lines configured to connect the first group of terminals to the second group of terminals; wherein the plurality of signal lines includes a plurality of logic signal lines including a logic power source line, a logic ground line, and at least first and second logic signal lines, and wherein, on the wiring layer, a line pattern connected to one of the logic power source line and the logic ground line is disposed along the first and second logic signal lines. | 11-10-2011 |
20110279499 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING DROPLET-EJECTION RECORDING HEAD - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction in the image forming apparatus; a recording head mounted on the carriage to eject droplets; a carriage circuit board mounted on the carriage and equipped with a circuit; a control circuit board provided in the image forming apparatus and equipped with a control circuit; a board mount provided in the carriage on which the carriage circuit board is horizontally disposed; and a flexible flat cable connecting the control circuit board and the carriage circuit board and movable in the main scanning direction below the board mount. The flexible flat cable is extended below the carriage circuit board, bent back toward the carriage circuit board, and connected to the carriage circuit board from the main scanning direction. | 11-17-2011 |
20110285769 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus including: an image recording portion which records an image on a recording medium; a treatment-liquid ejecting portion which ejects treatment liquid; a conveying mechanism having a support face; an adsorption mechanism, for adsorbing the recording medium to the support face, including first and second electrodes arranged so as to be spaced from each other and so as to face the recording medium supported on the support face with the support face interposed between the recording medium and the first and second electrodes; and a controller which controls the treatment-liquid ejecting portion to eject the treatment liquid onto at least a part of a first area of the recording medium before the image recording, wherein the first area is an area near a leading end of the recording medium, and wherein the first area is overlaid, as seen in a direction perpendicular to the support face, on an area interposed between the first and second electrodes. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285770 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus suppresses air currents heading toward print head faces, and reduces the adherence of ink mist onto the print heads. The apparatus includes a carriage upon which is mounted one or more print heads with ink ejection ports formed thereon, a printing unit that prints an image onto a printing medium by causing ink droplets to be ejected toward the printing medium from the ink ejection ports while also causing the carriage to move with respect to the printing medium, and an airflow control mechanism formed on the surface of the one or more print heads or the carriage that faces the printing medium, the airflow control mechanism controlling air currents flowing into a lateral region extending along the carriage moving direction on either side of the region where the ink ejection ports are formed, and causing the air pressure to rise in the lateral region. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285771 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID TESTING METHOD - A liquid ejection device includes a plurality of nozzles and a common ejection testing portion. The nozzles are arranged to eject a liquid. The common ejection testing portion is provided in common to the nozzles, the common ejection testing portion being arranged to perform ejection testing of each of the nozzles during printing. At least one of the nozzles is selected to be tested using the common ejection testing portion when the liquid is ejected from the nozzles based on print data. The nozzles that eject liquid being identified based on the print data, and one of the nozzles, which have not been tested, having low ejection frequency based on the print data being selected as the at least one of the nozzles to be tested. | 11-24-2011 |
20110292104 | FILL-AND-LINE PRINT MODE - An N-pass hybrid fill-and-line print mode is used to print an image on a print medium. In this mode, each sequence of N longitudinally overlapping printhead passes over said print media includes at least one transverse forward pass using a fill mask and at least one transverse reverse pass using a line mask. | 12-01-2011 |
20110292105 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A semiconductor device including segments, a power supply pad and conductive patterns is provided. Each segment includes driving units for discharging a liquid. Each driving unit includes a driving circuit and an element driven by the driving circuit to apply discharging energy to the liquid. The conductive pattern includes a first conductive portion connected to the power supply pad, a second rectangular conductive portion, a third conductive portion connected to the driving units, and a connection portion which connects the second and third conductive portions. These conductive portions are elongated in a first direction. In a second direction, a length of the second conductive portion is greater than a length of the first conductive portion. The second conductive portion is connected to the first conductive portion at a first corner and to the connection portion at a second corner diagonal to the first corner. | 12-01-2011 |
20110292106 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD BY THE SAME - In general, according to one embodiment, an inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head, a conveyance motor, a discharge motor, a printing medium surface sensor and a controller. The inkjet head ejects ink on a printing medium. The conveyance motor causes conveyance of the printing medium. The discharge motor causes discharge of the printing medium. The printing medium surface sensor, locates at the upper-stream side of the inkjet head apart from the inkjet head in a printing medium conveyance direction, senses a foreign substance representing an image printed on the printing medium beforehand. The controller drives the discharge motor to discharge a printing medium without ejecting ink from the inkjet head if an after-printing mode in which printing is made on the printing medium on which the image is printed beforehand is not set if the foreign substance is detected on the printing medium through the printing medium surface sensor, or drives the discharge motor to discharge a printing medium after ejecting ink on the printing medium from the inkjet head if the after-printing mode is set if the foreign substance is detected on the printing medium through the printing medium surface sensor. | 12-01-2011 |
20110298849 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - In a line-head type inkjet printing apparatus that ejects a plurality of types of inks, an inkjet printing apparatus is provided in which the change of its ejection properties different depending on the type of ink is prevented from occurring. The line-head type printing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that counts the ejection number of liquid from each of print heads in each of a plurality of print heads. Furthermore, the printing apparatus compares the ejection number of liquid from each of the print heads counted by the acquisition unit with a threshold value set for each of the print heads. The printing apparatus includes a change unit that can move a holder in the main scanning direction when the counted ejection number of liquid exceeds the threshold value set for the print head. | 12-08-2011 |
20110298850 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In order to control smoothness depending on accumulation of a pigment ink in the multi-pass printing, an information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus that forms an image on the same area in a print medium by a plurality of printing scans with the same pigment ink, the information processing apparatus comprises an input unit that receives inputs of image data and a target gloss level; a storage unit that stores a plurality of pattern sets including a recording pattern for each of the printing scans; and a generation unit that generates pattern data corresponding to the recording patterns by selectively using the pattern sets based on the image data and the target gloss level; wherein at least one of the plurality of pattern sets has a different thinning ratio in the recording pattern for each of the printing scans on the same area. | 12-08-2011 |
20110304662 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric body formed on the upper side of the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the upper side of the piezoelectric body; and an electrostatic actuator having the second electrode and a third electrode arranged to face the second electrode with a space therebetween. | 12-15-2011 |
20110304663 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND CURRENT CONTROL METHOD - A droplet ejecting component of the present invention includes an ejecting component having a charge and discharge characteristic, an applying component being provided with a transistor, and an increasing component. The ejecting component ejects a droplet. When a control signal is inputted, the applying component applies an application voltage to the ejecting component, and the increasing component increases the impedance of the transistor. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIELECTRIC HEATING OF INK IN INKJET PRINTERS - Dielectric heating is used to cause explosive nucleation of ink in an ink reservoir to expel a drop of ink from an inkjet print head. Conductive plates generate an alternating electric field at microwave frequencies across an ink reservoir causing the ink to heat. Since the ink is heated without heating the conductive plates, less heat dissipation of the inkjet print head is necessary. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310145 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A multifunction machine includes: a first feeding roller and a second feeding roller; an intermediate roller pair provided to a curved portion of a transport route; a main transporting roller pair; a recording head; a first drive motor and a second drive motor; and a control section. The control section intermittently drives the main transporting roller pair and makes the recording head jet ink during a period of time in which the main transporting roller pair is stopped, and performs pre-paper feeding processing for rotating the first feeding roller a predetermined amount in a paper feeding direction when a rear end of a paper is positioned between a first sensor and the first feeding roller. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310146 | PRINTHEAD NOZZLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MAGNETIC PADDLE ACTUATOR - A nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber having a roof defining an ink ejection port and a floor defining an ink supply inlet; a magnetic coil arrangement positioned around the ink supply inlet of the nozzle chamber; bridge members spanning over the magnetic coil arrangement, the bridge members supported on support posts protruding from the magnetic coil arrangement and having a resilient characteristic; and a paddle containing magnetic material and supported from the bridge members over the ink supply inlet, the paddle having a shape matching that of the ink supply inlet. The bridge members normally support the paddle in an open position spaced from the ink supply inlet. The magnetic coil arrangement is configured to attract the magnetic material of the paddle with a force exceeding the supporting tension of the resilient bridge members. | 12-22-2011 |
20110316910 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When distributing image data of a plurality of planes to a first chip and a second chip that constitute the same overlapped portion of a connected head, a distribution method is changed for at least a part of the plurality of planes. | 12-29-2011 |
20110316911 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND INKJET PRINTER - There is provided an image processing method in which in a full line type inkjet printer using a connecting head having an overlap region, even if a conveyance direction of a print medium is more or less inclined, a density change or degradation of graininess is not introduced. Therefore, an image data in a non-overlap region is distributed to a plurality of nozzle arrays such that ink is ejected from all the plurality of the nozzle arrays. On the other hand, a region where a print allowance rate changes in the overlap region is divided into plural regions, and the image data is distributed to the plurality of the nozzle arrays such that these regions are located to be shifted. | 12-29-2011 |
20110316912 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a continuous liquid ejection apparatus, when pressurizing ink with a pump and initiating ejection, the problem of a stable ink column and droplets not being formed if ink is ejected in a low ink pressure state and large droplets or droplets with unstable flight directions being formed is solved. The space where droplets fly is sealed in order to raise the pressure of ink inside a liquid chamber communicating with a nozzle up to a pressure suitable for droplet-forming condition, while the pressure of gas in the sealed space is raised corresponding to the rise in pressure of the liquid to suppress ejection from the nozzle. After the pressure of the ink is raised to pressure suitable for droplet-forming condition, the sealed space is opened to the atmosphere and ink is ejected all at once. | 12-29-2011 |
20110316913 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a support table, a printing head, and a cleaner. The support table rotates around an axis. The printing head faces the support table. The cleaner includes a web coming into contact with the support table. | 12-29-2011 |
20120001969 | PRINT JOB DATA PROCESSING FOR MULTI-HEAD PRINTERS - Techniques are disclosed for performing processing, such as striping, staggering, and stitching, on print data prior to printing by a multi-head printer. Subsets of the print data may be stored in multiple stages of buffers and processed in parallel to increase processing efficiency. Print data representing digital photographs may be processed sufficiently rapidly to enable continuous printing of digital photographs at high speeds. Parameters of the system, such as print buffer size and interrupt frequency, may be varied in response to design requirements such as overall system cost. | 01-05-2012 |
20120007903 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an ejection device, a suction device, and a controller. The ejection device has a first nozzle and a second nozzle to eject a first liquid and a second liquid, respectively. The first liquid contains pigment particles dispersed in a dispersion medium and the second liquid contains a color material. In a first image formation mode for ejecting the second liquid from the second nozzle without ejecting the first liquid from the first nozzle, the controller controls the suction device so as not to suction the first liquid for recovery operation. When the first image formation mode is switched to a second image formation mode for ejecting at least the first liquid from the first nozzle, the controller controls the suction device so as to suction a predetermined amount of the first liquid determined based on solidification of the first liquid to perform the recovery operation. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007904 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a print head, a carriage moveable in a width direction of a medium, a carriage driver that drives the carriage to move back and forth in the width direction within a movement range, a detector that detects a position of the carriage, and a controller that monitors the position of the carriage. The controller is also configured to reverse a direction of movement of the carriage using the carriage driver when the carriage is determined to be immovable at a first position within the movement range, and, when the carriage, after the direction of movement of the carriage has been reversed, is determined to be immovable at a second position within the movement range, to further reverse the direction of movement of the carriage again using the carriage driver, and to output an error after stopping the carriage between the first position and the second position. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013660 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The controller of the printing device sets the printing width in the secondary scanning direction of the region of the printing medium onto which ink is deposited by a single driving of the a printing unit, on the basis of the length in the secondary scanning direction of the printing region that is specified based on the printing data, and controls the printing unit on the basis of the set printing width. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013661 | AUTOMATED BEAM MARKER - A beam marking system is disclosed for marking on beams with a marking device. The beam marking system includes a beam marking device configured to mark on the surface of a beam. A movable arm is coupled to the marking device. The movable arm has at least three movable components that collectively move the beam marking device along or about at least three axes. A controller is in electronic communication with the movable arm and the marking device. The controller controlling the movement of the at least three movable components of the movable arm and controlling the operation of the marking device. In some instances, the beam marking system can automatically mark beams, such as metal beams used in heavy construction projects in a rapid and accurate manner. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013662 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus according to the present invention includes a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a recording head and a control unit to control a pulse waveform, a pulse width forming a drive pulse, and a voltage. The drive pulse supplied to an electrothermal transducer is selected according to information about thermal conduction characteristics of the recording head and the temperature of the recording head detected by the temperature sensor. | 01-19-2012 |
20120026224 | INK COMPOSITION, DIGITAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHODS - An ink composition has controlled conductivity, and a digital printing system and a method of printing an ink employ an offset inkjet printing platform. The ink composition includes pigment particles dispersed in an oil-based dielectric carrier fluid with an oil-soluble dispersant. A concentration of dispersant is a fraction of a concentration of the pigment particles sufficient to render an electrical conductivity of the ink composition less than 100 pico Siemens per centimeter (pS/cm). The printing system includes an ink having an electrical conductivity less than or equal to about 300 pS/cm, an inkjet print head, a transfer medium, a developer, a remover and an image transferer. In the method of printing, the ink is nonelectrostatically jetted to the transfer medium, and developed into a fixed image. A portion of a supernatant is removed from the fixed image, and the fixed image is transferred to a media substrate. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026225 | Line image forming method and apparatus - A line image forming method includes the steps of: ejecting a plurality of droplets of liquid sequentially from an inkjet head, the liquid containing a functional component; and depositing the droplets of the liquid onto a non-permeable medium, the deposited droplets becoming joined together on the non-permeable medium to form a line pattern of the liquid, wherein a receding contact angle of the liquid with respect to the non-permeable medium being not larger than 10°. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026226 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a head main body having a plurality of nozzles and drive elements which discharges ink from the plurality of nozzles, a control section which controls the drive elements, and a ceramic base on which the head main body and the control section are arranged. The inkjet head further includes a cover which is formed of a resin in which ceramic particles are mixed, and fixed to the base to cover the control section and hold the control section inside, and an adhesive which is interposed between the base and the cover, and seals an interior of the cover. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026227 | INK JET PRINTING APPRATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus and printing method are provided that can, without the addition of a special structure, suppress density imbalance between the print images formed by ink ejected from each of the ejection ports formed on a print head. As for the plurality of ejection ports, one portion of them are established as multiple impact ejection ports that form multiply impacted pixels at which the number of times ink is impacted at the same area is greater than at other pixels of the print area. And, print control is carried out such that more multiply impacted pixels are printed at print areas printed using ejection ports at the ends of the print head than at print areas printed without using ejection ports at the ends of the print head. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026228 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A controller for printing a single region in which a background image is formed by the upstream background color nozzle row and the downstream background color nozzle row or in which a color image is formed by the upstream color nozzle row and the downstream color nozzle row is printed, among regions in the transporting direction, and an overlapping region in which a background image is formed by the upstream background color nozzle row and a color image is formed by the downstream color nozzle row or in which a color image is formed by the upstream color nozzle row and a background image is formed by the downstream background color nozzle row, among regions in the transporting direction, is provided. Here, the single region and the overlapping region are switched when one medium is printed. | 02-02-2012 |
20120044287 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRIVE OF NOZZLES IN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus that prints each raster in a multi-pass printing mode by causing a printhead having a plurality of nozzles forming a nozzle array to scan in a direction intersecting with the nozzle array is provided, in which the nozzles are divided into groups, each including adjacent nozzles, one nozzle selected from each group is united into one block, drive of nozzles is controlled such that drive timings of nozzles differ among a plurality of blocks in each group, and a sequence in which nozzles are driven is determined for each scan in the multi-pass printing mode such that printed dots are most equally printed in the raster. | 02-23-2012 |
20120056922 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a print head that is able to apply light-blocking ink that blocks light and metallic ink that creates a metallic look on a printing medium, a metallic look control unit that determines the ink amount per unit area of the light-blocking ink that the print head applies based on the created metallic look, and an ink application control unit that controls the print head, applies the metallic ink and the light-blocking ink based on the determined ink amount on the printing medium, and laminates the metallic ink and the light-blocking ink such that the side that is viewed has the metallic ink. | 03-08-2012 |
20120062627 | INKJET HEAD DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INKJET HEAD - According to one embodiment, an inkjet device includes: an ink circulating device configured to communicate with an inkjet head to form an ink circulating system; an arithmetic unit configured to calculate, on the basis of pressure detected from the ink circulating system, pressure in an ink discharge port section according to an arithmetic expression set in advance; a pressure determining unit configured to determine, with proper nozzle pressure in the ink discharge port not discharging ink set as a reference value, whether a value calculated by the arithmetic unit is positive pressure or negative pressure with respect to the reference value; and a negative pressure regulator configured to communicate with the ink circulating system and perform, if the pressure determining unit determines that the value is the positive pressure, an ink reducing operation in the ink circulating system and increase a negative pressure value on the ink discharge port. The pressure determining unit changes the reference value to a negative pressure side. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062628 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes at least two independent recording heads; restoring units; counting units; a restoring control unit; and a storage unit. The restoring control unit conducts a restoring operation for all of recording heads when the cumulative number of print sheets of either of the recording heads reaches the first setting value or above when the cumulative number of print sheets for all of the recording heads is less than the second setting value at the time of starting printing. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069069 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging head having liquid discharging nozzles; a platen that retains a recording sheet; a liquid detection unit which can move between the liquid discharging head and the platen and detects liquid discharge states from the liquid discharging nozzles; and a unit driving mechanism which moves the liquid detection unit, wherein the liquid detection unit moves from a detection start end to a detection termination end at the time of detection of the liquid discharge states, and at the time of movement of the liquid detection unit, liquid discharge operations from nozzle orifices in a certain area located at a certain distance from a detection position are performed ahead of detection by the liquid detection unit, and at the time of detection by the liquid detection unit, a liquid discharge operation from the nozzle orifice that becomes a detection target is performed again. | 03-22-2012 |
20120075367 | Imaging Device Configured To Remove Residual Marking Material From An Intermediate Imaging Member - A method of operating an inkjet imaging device more thoroughly cleans residual ink from an intermediate imaging member and disrupts any ghosted images that may have formed in the release agent. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075368 | DROPLET DISPENSING CONTROL METHOD, DROPLET DISPENSING CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - According to one embodiment, a droplet dispensing control method includes detecting an amount of positional deviation between a stage on which a substrate is mounted and a template as a template positional deviation amount and detecting an amount of positional deviation between a movement direction of the stage and a nozzle array direction as a nozzle positional deviation amount. The method further includes calculating a stage movement direction correction value and an ejection timing correction value of the imprint material as correction values for eliminating the positional deviation of the landing position of the imprint material. The method further includes controlling the movement direction of the stage using the stage movement direction correction value and controlling the ejection timing of the imprint material using the ejection timing correction value. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075369 | SELF-DISPERSING PIGMENT DISPERSIONS AND INK JET INKS CONTAINING THEM - The disclosure provides a self dispersing pigment dispersion for use in inks comprising a pigment having a stabilizing group covalently attached to the pigment surface, and having an oil adsorption of at least about 155 to about 179 mL/100 g, and an acid content of at least about 0.98 microequivalent/m | 03-29-2012 |
20120081426 | REGISTERING IMAGES DURING TWO-SIDED PRINTING - Registering images during two sided printing is disclosed. An example is carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium. The program code is executable by a processor for printing on a first side of a media a first plurality of plots and a plurality of associated fiducials along an edge of the media. The program code is executable by a processor for determining a distance from the edge of the media to at least one of the plurality of associated fiducials based on sensed input. The program code is executable by a processor for printing a second plurality of plots on a second side of the media based on the distance from the edge of the media so that the second plurality of plots is substantially in registration with the first plurality of plots. | 04-05-2012 |
20120081427 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes: a liquid droplet jetting head which has a liquid droplet jetting surface on which a plurality of nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle are open to jet the liquid droplets; a cap member which covers the liquid droplet jetting surface of the liquid droplet jetting head and in which an opening, through which an interior of the cap member is communicated with atmospheric air in a state that the liquid droplet jetting surface is covered with the cap member, is formed; a moving mechanism which moves the cap member to make contact with and separate from the liquid droplet jetting surface; and a controller which controls the liquid droplet jetting head and the moving mechanism. | 04-05-2012 |
20120081428 | Printing up to Edges of Printing Paper without Platen Soiling - This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head | 04-05-2012 |
20120086746 | PRINT HEAD CONTROL DEVICE IN INK JET PRINTER - A print head control device | 04-12-2012 |
20120086747 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus including an ink jet head; a scanning mechanism for scanning the ink-jet head; a transport mechanism including nip sections for nipping a recording medium; and a controller including a pattern forming mechanism, which controls the ink jet head to form a pattern including a mark for detecting a deviation between a landing position in a forward scanning and a landing position in a backward scanning; wherein the pattern forming mechanism controls the ink jet head to form a part of the mark on the recording medium in one of an area which overlaps in the transport direction with one of the nip sections and areas which are placed at outside positions of the nip sections nipping the recording medium at outermost positions in the scanning direction. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092399 | POWER SUPPLY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR PIEZOELECTRIC INKJET HEAD - A power supply integrated circuit includes a DC-DC boost regulating unit and a DC-AC output controlling unit. The DC-DC boost regulating unit is used for increasing a low DC voltage into a high DC voltage. The DC-AC output controlling unit is connected with the DC-DC boost regulating unit for converting the high DC voltage into a high AC voltage. A first portion of an integrated circuit chip and a plurality of passive components are collaboratively defined as the DC-DC boost regulating unit. A second portion of the integrated circuit chip is defined as the DC-AC output controlling unit. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092400 | WATER-SOLUBLE AZO COMPOUND OR SALT THEREOF, INK COMPOSITION, AND COLORED ARTICLE - Disclosed is a yellow dye which has a hue with high definition that is suitable for inkjet recording, and which enables a material recorded therewith to have high fastness in various fields. The yellow dye is capable of providing an ink composition that has excellent storage stability. Also disclosed is an ink composition containing the yellow dye. Specifically disclosed are a water-soluble azo compound represented by formula (1) or a salt thereof, and an ink composition containing the compound or salt. The ink composition has a hue and definition suitable for inkjet recording, and enables a material recorded therewith to have high fastness in various fields, while enabling an image recorded therewith to have excellent storage stability and the like. In formula (1), Q represents a halogen atom; W represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group; x represents an integer of 2-4; and y represents an integer of 1-4. | 04-19-2012 |
20120105521 | METHOD OF INKJET PRINTING PIXELS - Aspects of the present invention provide a method of inkjet printing pixels, the method including: applying ink to a plurality of pixels using an inkjet printe; calculating a Transmittance Measurement System (TMS) value of each of the pixels, by measuring an amount of light transmitted through each pixel before and after the application of the ink; calculating a TMS difference between the TMS values of two adjacent pixels; and adjusting the amount of ink applied to each pixel, on the basis of an average of the TMS values of two adjacent pixels, when the absolute value of one of the TMS differences is larger than a reference value. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105522 | Valve Jet Printer With Inert Plunger Tip - A valve jet printer includes a solenoid coil and a plunger rod having a magnetically susceptible shank. A first end of the shank and at least a portion of the shank are received within a bore of the solenoid coil. The printer also includes a nozzle including an orifice extending therethrough and a spring biasing a second end of the shank toward the nozzle. The second end of the plunger rod includes a tip formed of perfluoroelastomer (FFKM). The second end of the shank includes a cup-shaped cavity having a convex bottom and a circular side. The tip includes a concave base and an annular flange. In an assembled state, the concave base of the tip contacts the convex bottom of the cup-shaped cavity, and the end of the circular side opposite the convex bottom is rolled over the annular flange thereby securing the tip in the cup-shaped cavity. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105523 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including: a liquid ejection head which has an ejection surface; a conveying mechanism having a support surface, and configured to convey a recording medium; a first capping mechanism having an annular-shaped lip member disposed to surround the ejection surface of the liquid ejection head, and configured to execute a first capping that causes the ejection surface to be covered with the support surface and the lip member; a second capping mechanism having a movable member which is positionable in an opposed position and a retracted position, and configured to execute a second capping that causes the ejection surface to be covered with at least the one movable member that is positioned in the opposed position; and a controller configured to control the first capping mechanism and the second capping mechanism, and to execute a selected one of the first capping and the second capping. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105524 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus including: a first casing; a second casing; and a controller, wherein the first casing is movable between a close position close to the second casing and a distant position farther from the second casing than the close position, the first casing accommodating a head having an ejection face. The second casing accommodates: a support portion having a support face for supporting a recording medium while facing the ejection face; and a moving device configured to move the support portion, such that the support face selectively takes a first state to face the ejection face and a second state not to face the ejection face. A restraining portion restrains movement of the first casing located at the close position, and the controller controls the moving device, such that the support face takes the second state when the controller has received a restraint releasing signal. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105525 | INKJET INK AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM FOR INKJET PRINTING - An inkjet ink ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120113173 | Inkjet Recording Device and Controller, Control Program and Control Method for Inkjet Recording Device for Gap Reduction of Ink Droplets - Aspects of the disclosure relate to a controller, control program, and control method for an inkjet recording device, and an inkjet recording device capable of forming a high-quality image by making positional shift of a landing ink droplet inconspicuous through simple control. A high-quality image can be formed by controlling nozzles ejecting an ink droplet landing at a position where the pitch of adjacent landing droplets is larger than a predetermined pitch such that the area of a landing droplet formed by the nozzles is larger, thereby reducing the gap between landing droplet trains by the landing droplet train for ink droplets corresponding to print data. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113174 | Liquid jet head, liquid jet apparatus, and method of driving a liquid jet head - A liquid jet head ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120120134 | PRINTING SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE HEATER ACTIVATION TO ENABLE INK FLOW TO A PRINTHEAD IN THE PRINTING SYSTEM - A method for operating a printer having multiple printheads includes activating a heater that is operatively connected to a printhead that ejects ink having a single color in response to receiving a print job. The printer detects the presence of colors other than the single color in image data received in the print job, and activates heaters operatively coupled to printheads that eject ink drops that correspond to the detected colors. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120135 | PRINT HEAD, PRINTING DEVICE, AND PRINTING METHOD - To provide a technique for largely preventing conspicuous banding from appearing in printed images, a print head is provided with three nozzle rows in which a plurality of nozzles are arrayed in a sub-scanning direction, the nozzle rows being spaced apart in a main scanning direction. In two nozzle rows among the three nozzle rows, the positions of the nozzles in the sub-scanning direction are mutually the same, and in one nozzle row among the three nozzle rows, the positions of the nozzles the sub-scanning direction lie between nozzles of the two nozzle rows in the sub-scanning direction. The three nozzle rows can eject ink of the same hue. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127224 | IMAGE REGISTRATION ON EDIBLE SUBSTRATES - A method of making edible substrates that have an image registered on them in a consistent manner. The method comprises the steps of providing an edible substrate sheet, and an image source, wherein the image source has at least one image. Further, a trigger pulse signal is provided, which relays the frequency of a process element that is communicated to an image disposal device. The image disposal device uses the trigger pulse signal to determine when to dispose an image from the image source. Then an image is disposed on the edible substrate sheet with the image disposal device to form an image-disposed edible substrate sheet. And then a portion of the edible substrate sheet that comprises an image is separated into an individual piece. | 05-24-2012 |
20120133691 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, AND DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An ink jet printing apparatus, an ink jet printing method, and a data generating apparatus are provided in which an image performance such as an abrasion resistance can be improved and a printing head can have a longer life by ejecting processing liquid at an appropriate time. The processing liquid is ejected, to a predetermined area on a printing medium in which the formation of a image by ink is completed, from a printing head in two or more scannings in five scannings of the printing heads. | 05-31-2012 |
20120139980 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - To suppress nozzle clogging without reducing printing speed, a printing device of the invention includes a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink while moving in a movement direction; a conveying unit for conveying a medium in a conveying direction; and a controller for repeating a dot-forming action for discharging ink from the nozzles moving in the movement direction and forming dots on the medium, and a conveying action for conveying the medium in the conveying direction. The controller places an additional image in a different position in the movement direction from an area where a main image to be printed is formed, discharges ink from all of the nozzles in each of the dot-forming actions, and prints the additional image on the medium. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147075 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, DRIVE CIRCUIT THEREOF, AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a direct current voltage which has positive and negative potentials relative to a ground potential interposed therebetween is used as a drive voltage for electric charging/discharging to/from an actuator. | 06-14-2012 |
20120169803 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of inkjet heads of a multi-drop method, a first controller, and a second controller. The first controller controls ejection of ink drops from a first inkjet head for ejecting a first ink for which print resolution is required, in a manner that a number of ink dots formed in a main scanning direction is great, and that the number of ink drops ejected for each one of the ink dots is small. The second controller controls ejection of the ink drops from a second inkjet head for ejecting a second ink for which coverage over a recording surface of the recording medium is required, in a manner that a number of ink dots formed in the main scanning direction is small, and that the number of ink drops ejected for each of the ink dots is great. | 07-05-2012 |
20120176430 | CAPACITIVE LOAD DRIVE CIRCUIT AND INKJET HEAD DRIVE CIRCUIT - According to one embodiment, a drive circuit of a capacitive load adjusts an impedance of at least one of the switches that are turned on to discharge a charge stored in the capacitive load back to a direct-current power source. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182337 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an inkjet recording apparatus capable of recording a high quality image without limiting the kinds of ink or recording media, including an inkjet head having a plurality of nozzles to eject ink droplets, wherein the ink droplets ejected from the plurality of the nozzles is charged by applying voltage between the inkjet head and the recording medium, and land on the recoding medium so as to record the image on the recording medium, wherein after a first ink droplet lands on the recording medium, a second ink droplet lands on the recording medium so as to overlap with the first ink droplet before discharging of the first ink droplet is completed. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188299 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INKJET PRINTER - To reduce unevenness in print density. A controller of a three-dimensional inkjet printer superimposes noise on a control signal which drive controls an A drive motor | 07-26-2012 |
20120194583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAFE USE OF A WET ON WET TEXTILE PRINTER - A wet on wet garment printing device for printing on a textile surface comprises: an ink holder; a printing head mounted for printing onto the textile surface using ink from the ink holder; a wetting applicator for wetting the locations prior to printing using a wetting composition; and an ink regulator configured to identify compatibility of ink in the holding unit with the wetting composition and to operate the wetting applicator only upon successful identification of compatibility. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194584 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, CONTROLLER THEREFOR, NONVOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus including: a head having an ejection face having ejection openings through which liquid is ejected, an ejection space being defined so as to face the ejection face; a sealing mechanism configured to selectively establish a sealing state for sealing the ejection space and an unsealing state; a humid-air supply mechanism configured to supply humid air into the ejection space in the sealing state; and a controller. The controller controls the humid-air supply mechanism to humidify the ejection space such that a humidity in the ejection space becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined humidity. The controller controls the head to perform a non-ejection flushing in at least one of a humidification period in which the humid-air supply mechanism humidifies the ejection space and a post-humidification period that extends for a first period from a completion of the humidification. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194585 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A recording head that includes a pressure chamber filled with ink and a piezoelectric element changing pressure inside the pressure chamber, and that ejects ink from the nozzle according to the change in the pressure inside the pressure chamber. A control unit controls the piezoelectric element and performs ejection driving for ejecting the ink from the nozzle or micro-vibration driving for micro-vibrating a liquid surface inside the nozzle to an extent at which the ink is not ejected from the nozzle; and performs a flushing operation of an ejection amount according to a number of times of micro-vibration driving in a driving period, in a preparation period after the driving period has passed. | 08-02-2012 |
20120206516 | Drum Maintenance System with Leak Detection - A printer includes a release agent detector that responds to release agent contacting the detector by generating a signal. The signal is processed by a controller to alter operation of the printer. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206517 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer for printing on a substrate comprising a first print head outputting ink and defining an ink meniscus; a platen operable to carry the substrate; a support structure; and a print head mechanism coupled to the support structure and carrying the first print head. The print head mechanism moving the first print head relative to the platen. A controller controls the print head mechanism such that at least one of a predetermined acceleration and predetermined deceleration of the print head mechanism is achieved such that the ink meniscus is operably maintained. | 08-16-2012 |
20120218329 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging section which performs a liquid discharging operation for discharging liquid; and a controller which makes the liquid discharging section perform the liquid discharging operation, thereby executing image formation coating processing which forms a plurality of images on a medium and also performs coating of the images. | 08-30-2012 |
20120218330 | ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF PRINTING POSITIONS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - With an ink jet head having for each color two parallel columns of nozzles arranged shifted by one-half the pitch, odd-numbered rasters and even-numbered rasters are printed by the two nozzle columns. The registration between the odd- and even-numbered rasters is secured during the printing to produce a high quality image. The ink ejection timing between the two raster groups is shifted by a predetermined interval to form adjustment patterns; the adjustment patterns are checked and, according to the check result, an adjustment value for the ink ejection timing between the two ink nozzle columns is entered, and the entered adjustment value is stored to be reflected on the actual printing operation. To facilitate the adjustment pattern check, the adjustment patterns have a dot distribution with a blue noise characteristic at a resolution at which the printing apparatus can print. | 08-30-2012 |
20120218331 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a recording head including a first pressure chamber filled with a first liquid, a first nozzle communicating with the first pressure chamber, a first pressure generating element changing pressure in the first pressure chamber and ejecting the first liquid from the first nozzle, a second pressure chamber filled with a second liquid, a second nozzle communicating with the second pressure chamber, and a second pressure generating element changing pressure in the second pressure chamber and ejecting the second liquid from the second nozzle; and a control unit supplying an ejection pulse of a first frequency to the first pressure generating element to eject the first liquid from the first nozzle, and supplying an ejection pulse of a second frequency lower than the first frequency to the second pressure generating element to eject the second liquid from the second nozzle. | 08-30-2012 |
20120223982 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - To reduce the tendency of glossiness to vary according to the ink ejection quantity, a printing device includes a color ink head for ejecting color ink to a medium, a clear ink head for ejecting transparent clear ink to the medium, and a controller for controlling ejection of the clear ink so that the clear ink is ejected to a region in which an ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is less than a predetermined quantity, and the clear ink is not ejected to a region in which the ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is greater than the predetermined quantity. | 09-06-2012 |
20120223983 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A liquid ejection device comprising a plurality of ejection parts for ejecting liquid in cavities, an inspection part for inspecting the ejection parts. The ejection parts are classified into a plurality of ranks according to the characteristics of individual ejection parts. The inspection part performs inspection in accordance with a determination reference corresponding to the ranks. The inspection is performed consecutively on those among the plurality of ejection parts that are classified in the same rank. | 09-06-2012 |
20120223984 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a head unit that ejects ink and a control unit that forms a metallic image by causing metallic ink that includes metallic particles to be ejected onto a medium from the head unit are provided, wherein the control unit changes the amount of the metallic ink that is ejected per unit area of the medium based on the gradation values of the pixels that configure the metallic image while causing the metallic image to have a predetermined width or greater. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229537 | Defective Jet Detection Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes analyzing an image of a flush line pattern applied to a print medium to extract print quality information for an ink jet print head. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229538 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus comprises: a printhead, which has a heater board on which heaters are disposed, configured to discharge ink; a transfer unit configured to transfer a discharge image signal to the printhead; and a power supply circuit configured to generate power for heating the heaters. Here, the printhead includes a supply circuit which, based upon the discharge image signal, supplies the heater board with power generated by the power supply circuit. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229539 | PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A printing head in which a plurality of nozzles is formed is moved in a predetermined direction, and is caused to execute main scanning in which the ink is ejected from the plurality of nozzles, in which the printing head performs printing another line in Nth main scanning between lines which are printed in the N-1th main scanning or prior thereto, performs printing a unit of printing which is configured by a plurality of lines in Nmax main scannings, and controls an amount of ink which is ejected from the printing head so that the ejecting amount of ink may be controlled so that the amount of ink ejected in Nmax-th main scanning is larger than that in the main scanning of Nmax-1th time or prior thereto, even if data items denoting the amount of ink for each pixel are the same as each other. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229540 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRECISION APPLICATION AND METERING OF A TWO-PART (BINARY) IMAGING SOLUTION IN AN INK JET PRINTER - A multi-color ink jet printing system uses a two-part (Binary) imaging solution, where the precise mixture of the multiple fluid parts (Colorant(s) and Reactant) is controlled with the use of multiple drop size (Grey Scale) ink jet print heads. The precise mixture of colorant(s) and reactant initiates a chemical reaction, which cures the imaging solution into a solid or nearly solid compound that ensures proper drop location | 09-13-2012 |
20120242725 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a carriage that moves in an orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to a transport direction in which a medium is transported; and a head unit, provided in the carriage, that includes a nozzle, a driving element that causes a liquid to be ejected through the nozzle, a head control unit that controls the driving of the driving element by selectively applying a driving signal to the driving element, and a head case that has a part formed of a metal member and that houses the head control unit within the case in a state in which the head control unit makes contact with the metal member. | 09-27-2012 |
20120249630 | INKJET PRINTING PROCESS - A process for printing an image includes printing a substrate with an aqueous inkjet ink and drying the printed image with a near-infrared drying system, wherein the inkjet ink is a yellow or magenta inkjet ink and comprises a yellow or magenta colorant and a distinct near-infrared absorbing compound. Inkjet ink sets for use with an inkjet printing system employing a near-infrared drying system in the process include at least a black ink and a yellow ink, wherein the yellow ink comprises a yellow colorant and dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica at a concentration of from 0.1 to about 10 wt %, and the black ink comprises a black colorant and dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica at a concentration of from 0 wt. % to at most ½ of the wt. % of the dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica in the yellow ink. Various embodiments provide a process for inkjet printing and drying inks with improved absorption in the near-IR region of the spectrum for improved drying performance of aqueous, hypsochromic inks, and an inkjet ink set with improved balanced near-IR drying of black and yellow inkjet inks. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249631 | RECOVERY PRINT MODE - In one embodiment, first printing is caused in response to a print job, applying ink upon a media utilizing a first row of printheads and a second row of printheads. The first row of printheads includes a plurality of printhead types. The second row of printheads is adjacent to the first row and includes at least one printhead of each of types. Failure of a first printhead within the first row is detected. The status of printheads included within the second row is analyzed. Second printing is caused applying ink upon the media utilizing the second row of printheads, and not the first row of printheads, in response to determining that printheads within the second row are operable to complete the print job. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249632 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a light irradiation unit including a light emitting element row having therein a plurality of light emitting elements aligned in the same direction as a nozzle row, and a fault detection unit that detects whether there is a fault in each of the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements apply light to a photoreactive liquid discharged onto a recording target material. The light irradiation unit includes a plurality of the light emitting element rows arranged therein. When the fault detection unit detects a fault in a light emitting element, operation enters a fault mode where the light emitting element row to which the faulty light emitting element belongs is turned off and recording is performed with the remaining light emitting element rows. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249633 | BRONZING INDEX VALUE CALCULATION METHOD, BRONZING INDEX VALUE CALCULATION DEVICE, AND PRINTING DEVICE - Calculating a difference between a hue angle of a colorimetric value of a printed object with respect to diffuse reflection and the hue angle of a colorimetric value of the printed object with respect to specular reflection, calculating the difference between a standard chroma with respect to an observational light source and the chroma of the colorimetric value of the printed object with respect to specular reflection under the observational light source, and calculating a bronzing index value on the basis of a value obtained by multiplying the calculated difference of the hue angles by the calculated difference of the chromas. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249634 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRINTING AN IMAGE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PEN AND BENCHMARK FOR SAID DEVICE - The invention relates to a portable device for printing an image in a printing area provided on a material substrate, which includes: at least one removable benchmark ( | 10-04-2012 |
20120262510 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an ink-ejecting unit, a region dividing unit, and a preparatory ejection unit. The ink-ejecting unit has a recording head aligned in a width direction which is substantially perpendicular to a transport direction of a recording sheet, and ejects ink onto the recording sheet through plural orifices of the recording head in accordance with print data to be printed in response to a print instruction, thereby printing an image. The region dividing unit divides, in the width direction of the recording sheet, a print region of the recording sheet into a user region and a print control region. The preparatory ejection unit preparatorily ejects ink onto the recording sheet through the plural orifices so that an amount of ink ejected through an orifice for the print control region is smaller than an amount of ink ejected through an orifice for the user region. | 10-18-2012 |
20120268510 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING METHOD - An inspection ejection unit is moved, and ink that has been ejected onto the inspection ejection unit is imaged in a region outside of a movable range of an ejecting head, whereby the ink ejecting state of the nozzle is inspected. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274685 | RECIRCULATING FLUID PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A printing system for applying a printing fluid to a substrate, comprising a printing fluid applicator and a recirculating printing fluid supply supplying printing fluid to the applicator, wherein the printing fluid comprises water, colorant, acrylic latex polymer, and a water dispersible polyurethane additive having an acid number greater than 50. The acrylic latex polymer provides increased optical density for printed images, and the water dispersible polyurethane additive enables the latex-containing printing fluid to be recirculated for extended periods without significant fluid destabilization or pressure build up or filter clogging. Also disclosed is method of continuous inkjet printing employing such a printing system. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274686 | PRINTHEAD - A print head comprising a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles extending therethrough, a piezoelectric bending mode actuator associated with each nozzle and connected with the respective nozzle so as to provide a plurality of independently actuatable nozzles, and a mount for, in use, connecting the nozzle plate to a liquid printer, wherein, in use, each nozzle can be driven at its resonant frequency such that motion of the driven nozzle causes liquid to be ejected only from the driven nozzle. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274687 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention teaches and claims an image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion including one or more inkjet heads for forming an image on a recording medium by discharging ink from an ink discharge surface of the inkjet head; a recording medium transporting portion having a transport surface which is positioned below the ink discharge surface and on which the recording medium is placed for transporting a sheet to a position facing the ink discharge surface; a moving mechanism for moving the transport surface toward and away from the ink discharge surface; an ink discharge surface protecting mechanism including but not limited to a cap member and a driving device for moving the cap member; and a control unit for moving the transport surface away from the ink discharge surface to operate the ink discharge surface protecting mechanism when the recording medium is jammed during transportation of the recording medium. | 11-01-2012 |
20120287184 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming device which includes a first nozzle group, a second nozzle group, and are arranged by being deviated from the first nozzle group to one side in a predetermined direction, a light irradiation unit which is extended at least in the predetermined direction, a control unit which repeats an ejection operation in which the photo-curable ink is ejected from the nozzle while moving the nozzle group and the light irradiation unit in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and a transport operation of the medium in a state where a non-ejection region where the ink is not ejected is provided between the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group in a predetermined direction, and overlappingly forms a main image using the first photo-curable ink, and a background image using the second photo-curable ink. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287185 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming device includes, the first head which ejects the first ink, the second head which ejects the second ink, a movement mechanism which moves a relative position of the first head and the second head in a predetermined direction, and a control unit which causes an ejection operation in which ink is ejected from nozzles while relatively moving the head and a medium in the movement direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and a transport operation in which the head and the medium are relatively moved in a predetermined direction to be repeated, and adjusts a head interval as an interval of the first head and the second head in a predetermined direction. | 11-15-2012 |
20120293574 | METHOD OF PRINTING IMAGES - A method of printing an image includes co-dispensing a compensation vehicle and an ink from an ink set to sites on a printing medium to form a printed image. A combined amount of the ink and the compensation vehicle dispensed to each site is at least substantially equal to a minimum site value that is predetermined for the ink set and the printing medium. The method further includes applying an amount of an overcoat liquid to the printed image to obtain a predetermined ratio of gloss to haze. | 11-22-2012 |
20120293575 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording apparatus causes the repeated alternating execution of an ejection operation, in which light-curable ink is ejected from a head while the head and a light irradiation unit are moved in a predetermined direction by a movement mechanism, and a transport operation, in which a medium is moved relative to the head and the light irradiation unit in a direction that is orthogonal to the predetermined direction; and reduces the irradiation intensity of the light irradiation unit during acceleration/deceleration periods, when the movement mechanism moves the head and the light irradiation unit at a velocity that is lower than a predetermined velocity, to a lower irradiation intensity than the irradiation intensity of the light irradiation unit during a constant velocity period, when the movement mechanism moves the head and the light irradiation unit at the predetermined velocity. | 11-22-2012 |
20120306951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOAD-LOCKED PRINTING - The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for preventing oxidation or contamination during a circuit printing operation. The circuit printing operation can be directed to OLED-type printing. In an exemplary embodiment, the printing process is conducted at a load-locked printer housing having one or more of chambers. Each chamber is partitioned from the other chambers by physical gates or fluidic curtains. A controller coordinates transportation of a substrate through the system and purges the system by timely opening appropriate gates. The controller may also control the printing operation by energizing the print-head at a time when the substrate is positioned substantially thereunder. | 12-06-2012 |
20120320117 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR UV GEL INK SPREADING - A UV curable gel ink spreading method and system includes setting an ink re-flow drum temperature, jetting UV gel ink onto a substrate using a print head, heating a back side of the substrate to cause re-flow using the re-flow drum, and curing the UV gel ink image using a UV source to produce a cured image. At least one of drawback and line spread may be measured in-line to determine whether to modify a drum temperature, a UV source location, and/or a print process speed to optimize drawback and/or line spread. Acceptable or optimized temperatures and/or UV source locations may be saved as a set point that corresponds to a substrate type. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327147 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An ultraviolet curing ink can be sufficiently leveled, and attachment of, for example, dust can be prevented. In an ink-jet printer, a carriage capable of reciprocating in a scanning direction is mounted with an ink-jet head for ejecting a color ink and a clear ink and ultraviolet irradiation devices for emitting ultraviolet rays. A control unit performs control so that in the forward movement of the carriage, a color ink is ejected and applied to a medium, and in the backward movement of the carriage, ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the color ink deposited on the medium and the color ink is cured. Subsequently, the medium is fed in a feed direction, and the clear ink is ejected and applied to the surface of the cured color ink in the forward movement of the carriage. In the backward movement of the carriage, the clear ink applied to the medium is irradiated by ultraviolet rays and is cured. | 12-27-2012 |
20130016144 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICEAANM Teranishi; NorihisaAACI Fukui-shiAACO JPAAGP Teranishi; Norihisa Fukui-shi JP - An object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording apparatus capable of simplifying cables for transmitting a recording signal to a plurality of inkjet heads. The inkjet recording device has a plurality of head units | 01-17-2013 |
20130027449 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH TEST RESISTORS - An inkjet printhead includes an array of drop ejectors, a first drop ejector of the array including a first resistive heater having a first nominal length and a first nominal width; and a first configuration test resistor disposed proximate the first resistive heater, the first configuration test resistor including a second nominal length and a second nominal width, wherein the second nominal length is different from the first nominal length. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027450 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a printing section which discharges the ink to print an image; a storage section in which an image data of the image to be printed by the printing section is stored; a judgment section which judges as to whether or not a flushing condition to execute a flushing, in which the ink is discharged from the printing section irrespective of the printing of the image, is satisfied; and a controller which controls the printing section to execute the flushing in a case that the judgment section judges that the flushing condition is satisfied and that the image data is not stored in the storage section, and which controls the printing section to print the image instead of the flushing in a case that the judgment section judges that the flushing condition is satisfied and that the image data is stored in the storage section. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027451 | FIXER INKS FOR USE WITH INK JET INKS - This disclosure provides an ink jettable fixer ink including a water soluble or water dispersible amphoteric polymer, wherein the amphoteric polymer contains both a cationic charge and an anionic charge within the same molecule, wherein the mole ratio of cationic charge to anionic charge is greater than 1; wherein the ink jettable fixer ink does not contain a colorant; and wherein the amphoteric polymer forms a water insoluble solid precipitate when mixing with an anionic charged ink jet ink. These fixer inks when used with aqueous colorant containing ink jet inks give improved optical density and chroma. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027452 | INKJET HEAD, METHOD OF DETECTING EJECTION ABNORMALITY OF THE INKJET HEAD, AND METHOD OF FORMING FILM - There are provided n number of line-type inkjet nozzles ( | 01-31-2013 |
20130033533 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head for ejecting liquid, a cap unit for sealing an ejection surface of the head, a humidified air supply mechanism including a storing part for storing humidifying liquid and for performing a humidifying operation, a discharge unit discharges liquid from the head, a control unit for controlling the humidifying operation and a liquid discharge operation, and a detection unit for detecting whether the humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part. When the detection unit detects that no humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part, the control unit controls the discharge unit such that a liquid discharge amount from the head in the liquid discharge operation is larger than that of a case where the detection unit detects that the humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038650 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a suction controller to seal a nozzle face of a recording head with a cap and drives a suction device to suck liquid from the head to perform sucking operation. The dummy ejection controller ejects, from the head, droplets not contributing to image formation to perform dummy ejection. The first tinier measures a first elapsed time after the dummy ejection. The second timer measures a second elapsed time after the sucking operation. A liquid discharge amount of the sucking operation is set to be greater than that of the dummy ejection. When the first elapsed time is equal to or greater than a first threshold time, the dummy ejection controller performs the dummy ejection. When the second elapsed time is equal to or greater than a second threshold time which is greater than the first threshold time, the suction controller performs the sucking operation. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038651 | INK-JET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An ink-jet printing method includes the steps of dividing multiple ink droplet discharging pulses into two or more groups in an ink droplet discharging order, providing the multiple ink droplet discharging pulses to a pressure generator per scan line time, and discharging ink droplets from an ink droplet discharge head in accordance with the multiple ink droplet discharging pulses. The method further includes the steps of combining ink droplets of a former group as a first combined ink droplet, combining ink droplets of a latter group as a second combination droplet, combining the second combined ink droplet of the latter group with that of former group before the ink droplets reach a target, and maintaining a prescribed amount of ink droplets landing on the target by decreasing the number of ink droplet discharging pulses. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038652 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing method that is performed by using a first nozzle ejecting color ink that is used for printing an image on a medium, a second nozzle ejecting a process solution that is used for processing the surface of the medium. The printing method includes printing an image constituted by color dots on the medium by ejecting the color ink from the first nozzle so as to form the color dots on the medium and forming process dots in areas other than the image on the medium by ejecting the process solution from the second nozzle, transporting the medium in a direction opposite to a transport direction after the color dots and the process dots are formed on the medium, and coating the color dots and the process dots with the process solution after the medium is transported in the direction opposite to the transport direction. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038653 | Information Processing Method, Printing Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Medium for Supressing Light Scattering - Print data is generated to form an image on a printing medium by superposing a plurality of types of printing materials in some or all pixels of an output image in an order complying with the intensities of the light scattering characteristics of the plurality of types of printing materials. The generated print data is transmitted to a printing apparatus. | 02-14-2013 |
20130050314 | PRINTING REGISTERED PATTERNS ON MULTIPLE MEDIA SIDES - A method of printing includes printing first and second patterns at first and second locations on first and second sides of a media using first and second printheads, respectively. First and second fiducial images including a fiducial origin are captured using first and second cameras, respectively. First and second pattern images of the first and second patterns are captured using the first and second cameras, respectively. The locations of the first and second patterns relative to the fiducial origin are determined using an image registration controller. A relative printed location of the first pattern and the second pattern is determined. A deviation is determined by comparing the determined relative location of the first and second printed patterns with an intended relative location of the first and second printed patterns. The determined deviation is compensated for by adjusting at least one of the first and second printheads so that subsequently printed first and second pattern have the intended relative print locations. | 02-28-2013 |
20130057607 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When printing is to be performed on sheets by switching a plurality of sheet storage units and feeding the sheets, a user confirms, before the designated number of sheets is printed, whether the sheet matches a designated sheet type, and then instructs printing to be continued. Two or more sheet storage units among the plurality of sheet storage units are set as one group, and one sheet is conveyed from each of the two or more sheet storage units set as one group. An image is printed on the conveyed sheets which are then discharged to a sheet discharge unit, and printing is interrupted. If an instruction to continue the interrupted printing is received, control is performed to resume the interrupted printing. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057608 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - The present invention provides a printer and printing method that forms a lenticular lens or a transparent structure based on pseudo-embossment printing or the like on paper having penetrability, and an inkjet printer performs: with respect to a base material | 03-07-2013 |
20130070009 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may generate processed image data, supply the processed image data to a print performing unit and execute a compensation process on a target pixel by using correcting data for a target image forming element which is to form an image at a position corresponding to a target pixel. The correcting data may be data acquired by using a difference between a target value and a value being acquired by using characteristic data corresponding to a first image forming element within a plurality of image forming elements. The target value may be acquired by using characteristic data corresponding to the target image forming element. The first image forming element may be an image forming element which is to form a first neighbor raster neighboring a target raster formed on the print medium by the target image forming element. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076813 | Inkjet Nozzle Flushing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print job data, rasterizing the print job data to generate image data for each page of the print job data to be printed, calculating a coverage per unit area for two or more color planes of each page of the image data and calculating a flushing mask to flush nozzles of the inkjet print head. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076814 | PRETREATMENT METHOD FOR PRINTING MATERIAL, PRETREATMENT DEVICE, INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD - A pretreatment method for a printing material is performed prior to ink jet textile printing on the printing material and includes the steps of imparting a tension force to at least a printing area of the printing material on which ink jet textile printing is performed so as to put the printing area in a tensioned state, and applying a pretreatment agent having an ink permeation inhibiting property on the printing area in the tensioned state. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076815 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - In a head ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130076816 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - A media processing device includes a reception unit that receives commands; a conveyance unit that conveys media; a reading unit that reads information from the media conveyed by the conveyance unit; a recording unit that records on the media conveyed by the conveyance unit; and an initialization process execution unit that, after the media processing device turns on or resets, enters a busy state in which the reception unit does not receive commands, executes a first initialization process that runs a process confirming media conveyance by the conveyance unit, and then cancels the busy state and runs a second initialization process that initializes the recording unit or the reading unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083101 | CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR CAUSING PRINT PERFORMING UNIT TO PERFORM PRINT - In a case where N1 lines (N1 being less than N which is a number of nozzles included in one nozzle line) of target line image data represent N1 lines of target line images to be printed by only one specific color of ink, and (N−N1) lines of remaining line image data include line image data which represents a line image to be printed by two or more colors of ink, the controlling device may select only the N1 lines of target line image data, so as to determine the opposite direction of the direction of the main scanning of a previous time as the direction of the main scanning of a present time. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083102 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head in which nozzles for jetting the liquid are formed and which has an actuator for jetting the liquid from the nozzles; an interposer substrate which is provided to the liquid jetting head and on which a driver IC is mounted; a control substrate which controls the liquid jetting head; a wire member which connects the interposer substrate and the control substrate; and a flexible circuit board which connects the interposer substrate and the actuator, wherein the interposer substrate has a first connecting portion to which the wire member is to be connected, and a second connecting portion to which the flexible circuit board is to be connected, and the driver IC is arranged nearer to the first connecting portion than the second connecting portion of the interposer substrate. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083103 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a liquid ejecting head having an ejection surface; a platen; a capping mechanism including: a first member opposed to the ejection surface with the platen interposed therebetween when image recording is performed; and a second member disposed around the head so as to cooperate with the first member to hermetically close an ejection space; a distance adjusting mechanism for adjusting a distance between the ejection surface and the first member; a platen moving mechanism for moving the platen between the facing position and a non-facing position at which the platen does not face the ejection surface; and a controller configured to control the platen moving mechanism such that the platen is located at the non-facing position and controls the distance adjusting mechanism such that the distance is equal to a members-abuttable distance that allows the second and first members to abut on each other. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088536 | PRINTHEAD MODULES - In an example this disclosure relates to printhead modules arranged to move with respect to each other. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088537 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus comprising, a printhead including an element array in which a plurality of printing elements are arrayed, scanning unit configured to reciprocally scan the printhead, driving unit configured to time-divisionally drive the printing elements, conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium, and setting unit configured to set a driving order, wherein the conveyance unit performs a first conveyance operation of conveying the printing medium by a conveyance amount which is an integer multiple of a width of the group of the time-divisional driving, and a second conveyance operation of conveying the printing medium by a conveyance amount which is not an integer multiple of the width of the group, and the setting unit sets the driving order in the time-divisional driving for each scan based on the conveyance amount by the conveyance unit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088538 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING UNIT TO PERFORM MULTI-PASS PRINTING - A control device includes an execution unit, a determining unit, and a setting unit. The execution unit controls a printing unit to execute a multi-pass printing for a predetermined partial area of printing medium by executing sub scans and a prescribed number of times of main scans. In the main scan, a print head of the printing unit forms dots on the recording medium while being conveyed in a main scanning direction. In the sub-scan, the printing medium is conveyed in a sub-scanning direction. The determining unit determines an acceptable range based on an actual conveyance error in the sub-scanning direction. The setting unit sets the prescribed number to N when a representative value of predetermined partial area falls in the acceptable range, and sets the prescribed number to M being an integer greater than N when the representative value does not fall in the acceptable range. | 04-11-2013 |
20130093807 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a nozzle column ejecting liquid cured by receiving the irradiation of light; an irradiation section irradiating the light to dots formed on the medium by the nozzle column; and a controller performing a first print mode or a second print mode having an image quality lower than that of the first print mode, wherein at the time of the first print mode, the controller forms the dots using a first nozzle region of the nozzle column, where variation in the quantity of the light is within a predetermined range, the light is irradiated to the dots formed by the nozzles of the first nozzle region, wherein at the time of the second print mode, the controller forms the dots using a second nozzle region of the nozzle column, where the variation in the quantity of the light is within a range larger than the predetermined range, the light is irradiated to the dots formed by the nozzles of the second nozzle region having a greater number of nozzles than that of the first nozzle region. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093808 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An element substrate, comprising a first resistance element and second resistance element each of which includes a first terminal and a second terminal and is arranged in a predetermined direction, wherein the first terminals are connected to a first line for commonly supplying a current, and the second terminals are connected to a second line for commonly supplying a current, and a detection unit configured to detect a voltage of the first terminal of the first resistance element and a voltage of the first terminal of the second resistance element while power is supplied to the first resistance element and is not supplied to the second resistance element. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100185 | ALCu HARD MASK PROCESS - A process for forming a metal interconnection in an integrated circuit includes forming a first metal layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer. Photoresist is placed on the second metal layer and patterned to form a mask. The second metal layer is etched. The mask is then removed and the first metal layer is patterned with the second metal layer acting as mask for the first metal layer. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100186 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a first part of nozzles that ejects at least one of brilliant ink and white ink to a medium, a second part of nozzles that ejects color ink to the medium, and a control unit that forms a first image by the first part of nozzles and forms a second image on the first image by the second part of nozzles, and deforms, when a part of an edge of the first image and a part of an edge of the second image are overlapped before forming the image on the medium, at least one of the first image and the second image so that a portion of the overlapped edge in the second image is positioned outside a portion of the overlapped edge in the first image. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100187 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control apparatus configured to cause a printing unit to perform print processing includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition for executing maintenance processing of the printing unit is satisfied, a shortening unit configured to shorten redundant maintenance operations in first maintenance processing and second maintenance processing in a case where the determination unit determines that a condition for executing the second maintenance processing is satisfied before completion of the first maintenance processing, and a control unit configured to cause the first maintenance processing and the second maintenance processing to be carried out after the shortening unit shortens the redundant maintenance operations. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100188 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects brilliant ink to a medium to form a brilliant image, a nozzle that ejects color ink to the medium to form a color image, and a control unit that ejects the color ink after ejecting the brilliant ink to the medium, applies, to the color image, a pattern in which blocks each having a predetermined area and each formed of pixels with the same gradation are arranged, and ejects the color ink so that the color image after the application is formed. | 04-25-2013 |
20130106930 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY INCLUDING MEMORY ELEMENTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130106931 | PRINTING USING A BACKWARDS MOTION | 05-02-2013 |
20130106932 | METHOD FOR PRINTING | 05-02-2013 |
20130120482 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - This invention enhances gloss uniformity of a formed image surface by selectively using colorless inks according to dot layouts of colored inks. A dot-layout unit sets colored dot layouts for respective colors of colored ink data. A colorless-dot-layout unit sets a colorless dot layout for one colorless ink with reference to a colorless dot layout table according to the colored ink data. An image is formed according to the colored and colorless dot layouts. In the colorless dot layout table, when a specular glossiness calculated according to the colored dot layouts is high, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a low refractive index on a colored ink having a high refractive index. Conversely, when the specular glossiness is low, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a high refractive index on a colored ink having a low refractive index. | 05-16-2013 |
20130135369 | CARRIAGE PRINTER WITH ADAPTIVE MOTION CONTROL - A carriage printer includes a printhead; a print region; a carriage configured to move the printhead back and forth across the print region; a motor for moving the carriage; a housing; a motion detector for detecting motion of the carriage printer; and a controller configured to control the motor, the controller including a motor control profile that is adaptable based upon the detected motion of the printer housing. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135370 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording device includes: a support member for supporting a sheet-shaped print medium; a print head that moves between a print position, at which printing of an image onto the print medium is executed, and a retracted position, farther away from the support member than the print position, while also facing the support member, with the print medium interposed therebetween; a tension adjustment unit for adjusting the tension of the print medium being supported by the support member; and a control unit whereby printing is executed by the print head having been positioned at the print position while the tension of the print medium is adjusted to a print tension by the tension adjustment unit, whereas the print head is positioned at the retracted position when the tension of the print medium is being altered by the tension adjustment unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130162707 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a liquid jetting head for jetting liquid onto a recording medium and a movement mechanism for moving the liquid jetting head orthogonal to the recording medium. The movement mechanism includes translation cams movable in a direction orthogonal to the movement of the liquid jetting head, each of the translation cams including a cam gap into which a protruding part of the liquid jetting head is inserted. Each cam gap includes a parallel part and a slope part. The cap gaps of the translation cams are configured so as to constantly maintain a relationship in which when the protruding part is positioned in the slope part of the cap gap of one of the translation cams, the protruding part is positioned in the parallel part of the cap gap of the other translation cam. | 06-27-2013 |
20130187964 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ADHESIVENESS OF MARKING MATERIAL AND RECEIVING MEDIUM AND A PRINTER - A method for printing an image by a reproduction apparatus includes a print head with print elements for ejecting marking material on a receiving medium in a multi-pass mode. The method includes selecting a multi-pass mode out of at least two multi-pass modes, dividing the image into a plurality of strips, determining for each strip a total amount of marking material required to print the strip on the receiving medium, ejecting for each strip a first amount of the total amount of marking material on the receiving medium during a first pass, and ejecting for each strip a remaining amount of the total amount of marking material on the receiving medium during passes subsequent to the first pass. A ratio of the first amount and the total amount of each strip is the same for the at least two multi-pass modes. The method is suitable for implementation in a reproduction apparatus. | 07-25-2013 |
20130194328 | CONTROL ELEMENT FOR PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A printhead includes a nozzle and a jet control element. The jet control element includes a continuous heater element positioned to surround the nozzle and a plurality of three or more electrical contacts in electrical communication with the continuous heater element. The plurality of three or more electrical contacts define a plurality of three or more continuous heater element portions that are actuatable with sufficient independence so as to control jet steering. The number of the continuous heater element portions equals the number of electrical contacts. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194329 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - Provided is a printing method for multi-pass printing with column thinning in which the multi-pass number is not restricted to being a multiple of the column thinning number. A mask pattern of a size corresponding to the number of printing elements in use is prepared, and divided into blocks | 08-01-2013 |
20130201231 | Printing Apparatus, Printing Method and Printed Matter - Provided is a printing apparatus including a first nozzle through which to eject a clear ink, a second nozzle through which to eject a color ink, a third nozzle through which to eject a glitter ink, and a control unit that controls ejections of the inks through the first nozzle, the second nozzle and the third nozzle, wherein the control unit performs control, at the time of forming a color image on a transparent medium, in a manner that ejects the clear ink onto the transparent medium through the first nozzle, ejects the color ink to be ejected onto the clear ink through the second nozzle to form an image resulting from the color ink, and ejects the glitter ink onto the clear ink and the color ink through the third nozzle. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201232 | Printing Apparatus, Printing Method and Printed Matter - A printing apparatus includes a first nozzle through which to discharge color ink to form a first dot, a second nozzle through which to discharge at least one of white ink, clear ink, and first glitter ink to form a second dot, a third nozzle through which to discharge second glitter ink, lower in diffuse reflection rate than the ink discharged from the second nozzle, to form a third dot, in which an image to be visually recognized from the opposite side of an image formation side via a printable medium is formed by forming a glittering base layer, resulting from the third dot, on a color image and the second dot, after forming the color image, resulting from the first dot, on the printable medium and forming the second dot on the first dot making up the color image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208037 | PRINT ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention provides a print element substrate having a plurality of printing elements. The print element substrate includes a detection circuit configured to detect substrate information of the print element substrate, a shift register configured to serially input print signals for performing driving control of the printing elements, serial-parallel convert the print signals, and parallelly output the print signals, a latch circuit configured to latch the print signals parallelly output from the shift register, and a driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of printing elements based on the print signals latched by the latch circuit. Detection signals based on the substrate information are parallelly input from the detection circuit to the shift register until serial input of next print signals starts after parallelly outputting the print signals from the shift register to the latch circuit. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215169 | INK FOR INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUSES AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink for ink-jet recording apparatuses includes water, a pigment dispersion, an organic solvent, and a humectant. The pigment dispersion includes a pigment and a resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 35,000 to 140,000. An adsorbed resin proportion determined from the mass of a total amount of resin in the ink and the amount of resin separated from pigment among the resin is at least 0.97. And, the ink contains from 3% to 15% by mass of C1-C4 monoalkyl ether of polyhydric alcohol based on the mass of the ink as the organic solvent. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215170 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215171 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130222448 | SENSOR FOR AVERTING POTENTIAL PRINTHEAD DAMAGE - A carriage printer includes a printhead having a printhead face that includes an array of marking elements; a carriage for moving the printhead back and forth across a printing region; a media advance system for advancing recording medium into the printing region; and a sensor for detecting whether a portion of the recording medium is positioned such that it will cause a collision with the printhead face if the portion of the recording medium is advanced into the printing region. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222449 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, PRINT METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - Banding has been prone to take place as regards black ink. Nozzle columns for color inks are arranged side by side in a direction in which a medium is conveyed, and are allocated to each color, and an amount of the medium equivalent to the length of the nozzle columns of each of the colors among the nozzle columns for the color inks is fed, to print on a forward path and return path from the nozzle columns for the color inks. As such, by repeatedly printing 100% of the total number of dots on every single scan for the color inks, the corresponding print region is covered. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222450 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a first dot and a second dot having a diameter smaller than that of the first dot on a recording medium, and a scanning unit configured to move the recording unit in a scanning direction. A recording resolution of the second dot in the scanning direction is lower than a recording resolution of the first dot in the scanning direction. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222451 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD - An element substrate includes a plurality of terminals, a first receiving circuit and a second receiving circuit each receiving a differential signal via one of the terminals included in the plurality of terminals, a driving circuit including a first input unit for inputting a first signal and a second input unit for inputting a second signal and driving a driving element based on the first signal and the second signal, and a setting circuit for setting a first connection state of connecting an output from the first receiving circuit to the first input unit and connecting an output from the second receiving circuit to the second input unit, and a second connection state of connecting an output from the first receiving circuit to the second input unit and connecting an output from the second receiving circuit to the first input unit based on an externally input signal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE DIGITAL CREATION OF A PRINT MASTER BY MEANS OF A LIQUID DROPLET DEPOSITION APPARATUS - A relief print master is created by a printhead that moves in a slow scan direction. The nozzles of the printhead jet droplets of a polymerisable liquid on a rotating drum. The different nozzles jet droplets simultaneously on different layers that have different diameters. As a result, the droplets jetted by different nozzles travel over different distances before landing. The effect of this is that the droplets undergo different position lag as they land on the different layers. By rotating the printhead in a plane that includes the central axis of the rotating drum and a nozzle row this effect can be compensated for. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING RAISED MARKINGS ON SUBSTRATES FOR BRAILLE IDENTIFICATION AND SECURITY AND TO FACILITATE AUTOMATIC HANDLING OF THE SUBSTRATES - Haptic or tactile features, which are generally not visually perceptible or reproducible, are applied at varying positions on a substrate according to a predetermined scheme. A plurality of raised image areas are specified for a group of substrates and raised marks are printed in only one raised image area for each substrate in a manner that is evenly distributed between the raised image areas for the group of substrates. The substrates will present a relatively uniform stack avoiding localized large pile heights when the substrates are stacked. A clear marking material is used to print the raised marks so as not to obscure underlying data printed on the substrate. The clear marking material may include a monomer that may become cross-linked in an exposure process to resist deinking of the substrate. The clear marking material may be mixed with a phosphorescing or fluorescing material as an additional security measure. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229453 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer for printing on a substrate comprising a first print head outputting ink and defining an ink meniscus; a platen operable to carry the substrate; a support structure; and a print head mechanism coupled to the support structure and carrying the first print head. The print head mechanism moves the first print head relative to the platen. A controller controls the print head mechanism such that at least one of a predetermined acceleration and predetermined deceleration of the print head mechanism is achieved such that the ink meniscus is operably maintained. | 09-05-2013 |
20130249981 | DROPLET POSITIONING METHOD, PATTERN FORMING METHOD, DROPLET POSITIONING PROGRAM, DROPLET POSITIONING DEVICE, AND TEMPLATE PATTERN DESIGN METHOD - In general, according to one embodiment, a method is disclosed for a droplet positioning method. | 09-26-2013 |
20130257941 | INKJET DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR INKJET DEVICE - An inkjet recording device includes an inkjet head that is equipped with a nozzle to discharge ink, an ink flow path connected to this inkjet head, an adjustment unit that adjusts the pressure in the ink flow path, and a maintenance unit that wipes the nozzle of the inkjet head, and a control unit that executes a maintenance mode of the inkjet head by controlling the adjustment unit and the maintenance unit. The control unit controls the maintenance unit to wipe the nozzle after the adjustment unit adjusts the pressure inside the ink flow path to a first positive pressure, and then again, after the adjustment unit adjusts the pressure in the ink flow path to a first negative pressure. The control unit further controls the adjustment unit to adjust the pressure in the flow path to a second negative pressure that is smaller than the first negative pressure. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257942 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device has a support and heating unit for supporting and heating a medium, a head for discharging color image ink and background image ink on the medium supported by the support and heating unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a color image printing process for executing a plurality of color image recording passes by which the head is moved relative to the medium in a moving direction, and a background image printing process. The controller is configured to execute a wait process of evacuating the head from above the support and heating unit and moving it to an evacuation position to have the head wait at the evacuation position for at least one of between the color image recording passes and between the background image recording passes. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257943 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device has a support and heating unit, a head for discharging color image ink and background image ink on a medium supported by the support and heating unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform one of a color image printing process for discharging the color image ink and printing a color image on the medium, and a background image printing process for discharging the background image ink and printing a background image that is a background of the color image on the medium, and to perform the other one of the processes subsequent to the one of the process. The controller is further configured to execute a wait process of evacuating the head to an evacuation position from above the support and heating unit to have the head wait at the evacuation position between the color image printing process and the background image printing process. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265352 | System and Method for Clearing Weak and Missing Inkjets in an Inkjet Printer - An inkjet printer is operated to print an ink image and clear inkjets simultaneously. The inkjet printer delivers to a first inkjet in a printhead a first signal that ejects an ink drop from the first inkjet that corresponds to a pixel of an ink image stored in a memory of the printer and delivers to at least one other inkjet in the printhead a second signal that ejects an ink drop from the at least one other inkjet that does not correspond to a pixel of the ink image stored in the memory of the printer. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265353 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING ON ARTICLES HAVING A NON-PLANAR SURFACE - A method for printing on an article having a non-planar surface in an embodiment includes obtaining coordinates or a geometry for a non-planar surface of an article; determining a tangent orientation for a print head in three dimensions; and using the tangent orientation and positioning the print head relative to the non-planar surface of the article. Embodiments of apparatus for printing on articles having non-planar surfaces are also disclosed. | 10-10-2013 |
20130278656 | Determining an Issue with an Inkjet Nozzle Using an Impedance Difference - A method for determining an issue with an inkjet nozzle using an impedance difference includes taking a first impedance measurement with a sensor to detect a drive bubble in an ink chamber after a drive bubble formation mechanism is activated; and subtracting the first impedance measurement from a reference. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286067 | INK JET RECORDING DEVICE - An ink jet recording device includes a conveying unit, carriage, motor, recording head, encoder, and controller. The controller is configured to perform: a recording control for controlling the recording head to eject ink while the carriage is moving; and a first movement control for setting a target stand-by position from which the carriage is configured to start moving in a particular direction and controlling the motor to move the carriage to and stop at the target stand-by position. Further, the controller is configured to control the carriage to move in the particular direction, when the carriage stops at a position upstream of the target stand-by position in the particular direction in the first movement control, from the upstream position at which the carriage has stopped, and to perform the recording control during a period of continuous movement of the carriage across the target stand-by position. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286068 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid ejecting apparatus that includes a liquid ejecting head capable of ejecting a liquid containing solid contents from a nozzle, by driving pressure generating unit for changing a capacity of a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle; and control unit for controlling the drive of the pressure generating unit, wherein the control unit drives the pressure generating unit so that a volume of the liquid ejected from the nozzle per a unit time is equal to or less than 60 nl/s, and an initial speed of the liquid ejected from the nozzle is equal to or less than 8 m/s. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286069 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The ink jet recording method according to the invention includes a first image recording step of recording an image by adhering the background ink to a first region and a second region of a recording medium; a second image recording step of recording an image by adhering a color ink onto the background ink of the first region; and a heating step of heating the recording medium at 35° C. to 100° C., and in which at least one of the background ink and the color ink does not contain a pyrrolidone derivative with a standard boiling point of 240° C. or higher. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286070 | Printing Up To Edges of Printing Paper Without Platen Soiling - Images are printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. According to the present invention, an area R for ejecting image-forming ink droplets is specified for a region lying beyond the edges of a printing paper P. The pixels of an external upper edge portion Rfp, extending beyond the upper edge Pf, and the pixels of an internal upper edge portion Rfq, disposed downstream of the external upper edge portion Rfp, are recorded solely by the nozzles disposed opposite the downstream slot of the platen. When dots are recorded, blank spaces are prevented from forming in the edge portions of the printing paper, and ink droplets are prevented from depositing on the platen when the printing paper P deviates from its intended position. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293606 | System and Method for Printing with Ink Limiting - An inkjet printer forms ink images from image data including colors in a device independent color space. A color profile associated with the printer maps a plurality of colors in the device independent color space and to a plurality of ink colors formed from a plurality of inks in the printer. The plurality of ink colors only includes colors that are formed with an ink mass density that is below a predetermined threshold. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293607 | PRINTING DEVICE - Provision of a printing device having simple structure but being able to perform an exact and beautiful printing of designs and letters on a printed face of a doughnut-like shape such as a sidewall of a vehicular tire although. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293608 | INK-JET PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INK-JET PRINTER - In accordance with an embodiment, an ink-jet printer includes a first black record head, a second black record head, a color record head, a black maintenance unit, a color maintenance unit and a controller. The black maintenance unit configured to maintain the first black record head. The color maintenance unit configured to maintain the second black record head and the color record head. The controller executes the maintenance of the black maintenance unit and the maintenance of the color maintenance unit at different timings. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293609 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus | 11-07-2013 |
20130300787 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRINTING MAILPIECES - A device including a printer with a print head for printing an imprint containing a first printing area with a security imprint (such as a franking mark), and a second printing area with a text or image imprint on mailpieces. The print head has at least two printing nozzles, of which a first printing nozzle is connected to a first printing supply and a second printing nozzle is connected to a second printing supply. An ink suitable for a security imprint is contained in the first printing supply, and a conventional printing ink is contained in the second printing supply. In the related method, the entire imprint, which contains a first printing area with a security imprint and a second printing area with a text or image imprint, is printed onto the mailpiece in a single print run. | 11-14-2013 |
20130300788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS, AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - In a color mode, the image quality improving liquid is set to the same rate of 20% for all input signal values. Meanwhile, in a monochrome mode, the image quality improving liquid is set to a rate of 30% in the highlight region, and the ink rate gradually decreases starting from the intermediate tones and proceeding towards the high-density region. Thus, the optimal printing method and usage rate for image quality improving liquid can be adjusted in accordance with the image quality characteristics of the color mode and the monochrome mode. As a result, it is possible to reduce color change in specular light while maintaining at least a certain level of image clarity in both modes, and thus favorably print both color images and monochrome images. | 11-14-2013 |
20130307889 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can perform stable ejection also in successive printing at high speed even in a case of performing printing in use of a print head provided with an ejection opening surface having hydrophilic properties. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises an inkjet print head wherein the control unit controls the print head such that, in a case where the ejection number of the ink ejected from the print head after removing the ink on the ejection opening surface by the ink removal unit is equal to or more than a threshold, a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation is larger than a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation in a case where the ejection number is less than the threshold. | 11-21-2013 |
20130314462 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A voltage is applied between first and second deflecting electrodes from a deflecting voltage controller, whereby an electric field is formed between the first and second deflecting electrodes in a direction perpendicular to electrode surfaces. An electric line of force is generated from a direction perpendicular to the electrode surface of the first deflecting electrode and made perpendicularly incident on the electrode surface of the second deflecting electrode. Since the first and second deflecting electrodes are parallel to each other, a plurality of parallel electric lines of force are formed perpendicularly to the electrode surfaces of the first and second deflecting electrodes. Droplets after passing charged electrodes fly in a region where this deflecting electric field is formed, whereby charged droplets are deflected in a direction in which the charged droplets approach the second electrode having opposite charging polarity. The charged droplets form a printing pattern. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314463 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type well region formed by counter doping; a transistor having source and drain regions having a second conductivity type, at least one of the regions being arranged in the well region; a LOCOS region arranged around the at least one region in the well region; and a channel stop region having the first conductivity type arranged under the LOCOS region. The at least one region is arranged at a distance from a tip of a bird's beak of the LOCOS in a direction parallel to a channel width of the transistor. The channel stop region is arranged at a distance from the tip of the bird's beak at an opposite side to the at least one region. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314464 | PRINTHEAD SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing element substrate, comprising a plurality of printing elements which form a plurality of groups, a first generating unit configured to generate a threshold signal set for each of the plurality of groups and a ramp signal, based on an externally received digital signal, and second generating units, which are arranged in correspondence with the respective groups, configured to generate, based on the ramp signal and the threshold signal, enable signals for setting a period during which the printing element is driven. | 11-28-2013 |
20130328953 | Portable Printer for Direct Imaging on Surfaces - A portable imaging device has been developed. The portable imaging device enables a printhead to be mounted to a surface to print an image on the surface. The printhead moves in two or more directions while mounted on the printing surface enable the printhead to eject ink onto the surface to form the image on the surface. | 12-12-2013 |
20130342596 | RECORDING METHOD USING INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording method using an inkjet recording apparatus, which can obtain a recorded material excellent in image quality and is excellent in productivity is provided. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002519 | METHOD OF BI-DIRECTIONAL PRINTING WITH OFFSET NOZZLE ARRAYS | 01-02-2014 |
20140002520 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING RAISED MARKINGS ON DOCUMENTS | 01-02-2014 |
20140015878 | LARGE-PARTICLE INKJET DUAL-SIGN DEVELOPMENT PRINTING - A method of producing a print on a recording medium includes receiving positive and negative image data for the print to be produced. A selected region of the recording medium is discharged. First-sign charged fluid is deposited in a selected first-sign charged-fluid pattern on the selected region of the recording medium, the first-sign charged-fluid pattern corresponding to the positive image data. Second-sign charged fluid is deposited in a selected second-sign charged-fluid pattern on the selected region of the recording medium, the second-sign charged-fluid pattern corresponding to the negative image data and the second sign being different from the first, sign. Charged dry ink having charge of the second sign is deposited onto the recording medium. The deposited dry ink is attracted to the first-sign charged-fluid pattern and adheres to the recording medium in the first-sign charged-fluid pattern. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015879 | INTERMEDIATE MEMBER FOR LARGE-PARTICLE INKJET DEVELOPMENT - Apparatus for producing a print on a recording medium includes a printhead adapted to provide drops of charged fluid. An intermediate member is adapted to receive the drops of charged fluid. A controller is adapted to receive image data for the print and control the printhead and the intermediate member so that a charged-fluid pattern corresponding to the image data is produced on the intermediate member. A development station is adapted to apply charged dry ink to the intermediate member bearing the charged-fluid pattern, so that a dry ink image corresponding to the image data is formed on the intermediate member. A transfer station is adapted to transfer the dry ink image from the intermediate member to the recording medium. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015880 | LARGE-PARTICLE INKJET RECEIVER-CHARGING INTERMEDIATE MEMBER - Apparatus for producing a print on a recording medium includes a printhead providing drops of hydrophilic liquid. A hydrophobic drop-retention layer of an intermediate member receives the drops in cells including ion donors, forming a liquid pattern corresponding to image data. The ion donor in liquid-containing cells dissolves into ions. A transport member brings the recording medium into contact with the liquid pattern on the intermediate member. A voltage source applies a bias across the recording medium in contact with the liquid pattern to move ions to form a charge pattern corresponding to the liquid pattern on the recording medium. A development station applies charged dry ink to the recording medium bearing the charge pattern, so that a dry ink image corresponding to the image data is formed on the recording medium. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015881 | COORDINATED PRINTHEAD OPERATION - A method includes moving an assembly of printheads with a bidirectional lateral motion. A direction of the lateral motion is substantially perpendicular to, and the lateral motion is concurrent with, a longitudinal motion of a substrate relative to the printhead assembly. Nozzles of the printheads are arranged in two rows that are oriented substantially parallel to the direction of the lateral motion. The longitudinal motion and the lateral motion are coordinated such that a nozzle in one of the rows and a nozzle in the other of the rows trace a common path on the substrate. | 01-16-2014 |
20140035976 | EJECTOR WITH IMPROVED JETTING LATENCY FOR HIGH SOLIDS CONTENT - A liquid ejection system includes a liquid ejector having a structure defining a chamber, the chamber including a first surface and a second surface, the first surface including a nozzle orifice; a resistive heater located on the second surface of the chamber opposite the nozzle orifice; a first liquid feed channel and a second liquid feed channel being in fluid communication with the chamber; and a segmented liquid inlet, a first segment of the liquid inlet being in fluid communication with the first liquid feed channel, and a second segment of the liquid inlet being in fluid communication with the second liquid feed channel; and a liquid supply comprising a liquid including a carrier fluid and a solids content that is greater than 5 percent by weight, wherein the liquid supply is fluidically connected to the segmented liquid inlet. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035977 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Data transfer is realized to support a high-speed and complex driving control of the driving element. A driving device includes a driving unit configured to supply a driving element with a pulse signal that determines a driving period to drive the driving element, an input unit configured to receive, in synchronization with a trigger signal, a data signal containing first information, second information, a first flag and a second flag that determine a waveform of the pulse signal, a first setting unit configured to set in the driving unit the first information that is input to the input unit, a retaining unit configured to read and retain the second information on the basis of the first flag, and a second setting unit configured to set in the driving unit the second information that is retained in the retaining unit on the basis of the second flag. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035978 | METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A method of driving a liquid ejection head includes preparing a liquid ejection head including first and second flow paths, and a piezoelectric element, a first step of applying a first voltage, which expands the second flow path, to the piezoelectric element while a meniscus of a liquid recessed from an orifice toward the second flow path is formed in a first flow path to move the meniscus to the second flow path, a second step of applying a second voltage, which contracts the second flow path, to the piezoelectric element while the meniscus that moves toward the first flow path is positioned in the second flow path to move the liquid to the first flow path, and a third step of applying a third voltage, which expands the second flow path, to the piezoelectric element to eject the liquid from the orifice after the liquid projects from the orifice. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043383 | PRINTING DEVICE - To reduce noise during paper conveyance while ensuring printing efficiency of an inkjet printer, a printing device is equipped with a control unit for moving a recording head back and forth in the scan direction according to the rotation of a carriage motor, a conveyance unit for extracting and feeding paper, conveying the paper in the sub scan direction to match the movement of the recording head to print the fed paper, and ejecting the printed paper according to the rotation of a conveyance motor, a paper reversal unit for coordinating with the rotation of the rotation means of the conveyance motor to reverse the front and back of the paper, and a printing control unit for controlling spraying of the ink from the recording head, as well as controlling the carriage motor and the conveyance motor. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043384 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A printer includes a recording unit and a scanner unit configured to open and close the top portion of the recording unit. The recording unit includes a flexible ink tube through which ink from an ink tank is supplied to the head unit, and a control unit that controls the head unit, according to a state of a press-down switch provided on the top portion of the recording unit, so as to perform recording on a medium when a pressed state of the switch is detected and not to perform the recording when an unpressed state of the switch is detected. The switch enters the pressed state when a gap that allows the ink tube to pass therethrough is formed between the recording unit and the scanner unit, the gap having a size that at least prevents an ink flow path in the ink tube from being blocked. | 02-13-2014 |
20140055511 | Method and Apparatus for Control of Gloss Level in Printed Images - An inkjet printer is configured to process print media having an ink image differently to alter a gloss level of the ink image on the print media. In one mode of operation, the printer moves print media bearing an ink image on one side only through a transfix nip a second time to reduce a gloss level of the printed image. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055512 | METHOD TO EXECUTE A PRINT INTERRUPTION IN PRINTING OPERATION OF AN INK PRINTING SYSTEM WITH AT LEAST ONE PRINTING APPARATUS - In a method to execute a printing interruption in a printing operation of an ink printing system in which a printing substrate is printed with at least one print head during the printing interruption in which a feed speed of the printing substrate web comes to a standstill, at least one vibration pulse is sent to the at least one print head to trigger vibration oscillations before a print controller loads print data into the at least one print head. Thereafter a print-start signal is sent to the at least one print head. | 02-27-2014 |
20140063093 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - According to one example there is provided a method of printing an image on a substrate using a printing system having a printhead. The method comprises forming, using ink from the printing system, a spittoon on the substrate, printing the image on the substrate, and whilst printing the image, ejecting ink from a printhead into the formed spittoon during a printhead maintenance operation | 03-06-2014 |
20140063094 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FILM DEPOSITION - The disclosure relates to a method for depositing films on a substrate which may form part of an LED or other types of display. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus for depositing ink on a substrate. The apparatus includes a chamber for receiving ink; a discharge nozzle having an inlet port and an outlet port, the discharge nozzle receiving a quantity of ink from the chamber at the inlet port and dispensing the quantity of ink from the outlet port; and a dispenser for metering the quantity of ink from the chamber to the inlet port of the discharge nozzle; wherein the chamber receives ink in liquid form having a plurality of suspended particles and the quantity of ink is pulsatingly metered from the chamber to the discharge nozzle; and the discharge nozzle evaporates the carrier liquid and deposits the solid particles on the substrate. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063095 | INK JET HEAD - An ink jet head according to an embodiment comprises a substrate including a mounting surface and a pressure chamber, a vibration plate including a first surface fixed to the mounting surface and covering the pressure chamber, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The ink jet head further comprises a first electrode on the second surface, a piezoelectric body overlapping the first electrode, a second electrode overlapping the piezoelectric body, and a protective film provided on the second surface. The inkjet head further comprises a nozzle in communication with the pressure chamber and configured to discharge ink, and a drive circuit provided on the mounting surface of the substrate and configured to apply a drive voltage to the first electrode or the second electrode to deform the piezoelectric body and to change a volume of the pressure chamber. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063096 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGING AND/OR VARNISHING THE SURFACES OF OBJECTS - A method and a device for imaging and/or varnishing the surfaces of objects or vehicles, etc. includes adapting a time lag between an application of fluid and further treatment thereof, such as drying ink or varnish, to a spreading behavior of the fluid during the application thereof. The fluid may be applied to the surface of the object in sections, firstly drying the fluid in individual sections before applying it to the next section. | 03-06-2014 |
20140085364 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium includes a head unit which includes an ejecting unit which ejects photo-curable color ink which is cured by being irradiated with light, an ejecting unit which ejects photo-curable transparent ink which is cured by being irradiated with light, and a light irradiation unit which radiates the light; a moving unit which moves the recording medium and the head unit relatively in reciprocating movements; and a controller which causes the transparent ink to be ejected toward the recording medium while causing the head unit to move in one direction in the reciprocating movements, and causes the transparent ink which is applied in the one direction to be irradiated with the light while causing the head unit to be moved in the other direction in the reciprocating movements. | 03-27-2014 |
20140104334 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An embodiment of this invention is directed to increasing the number of printable images on a continuous sheet and throughput when printing an image in which images of different sizes coexist and are arranged. Upon printing plural images by using a full-line inkjet printhead while conveying the sheet, the time during which no ink is discharged between successive images is analyzed from inputted image data for each nozzle of the printhead. Based on the analysis result, it is determined whether preliminary discharge is necessary during printing of the plural images. If preliminary discharge is necessary, print data to be used by the printhead is generated by adding, to the image data, data for preliminary discharge. Ink is discharged from the printhead based on the generated print data. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104335 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus including a print head including nozzle groups each having nozzles, each of the nozzle groups applying ink having a plurality of volumes from the nozzles to form dots including dots differing in size, including: an arrangement determination unit to determine an arrangement of dots to be formed by each of the nozzle groups; a size determination unit to determine sizes of ink ejected to print the dots determined by the arrangement determination unit, according to respective ejection characteristics of the nozzle groups, such that a print characteristic of an image based on the dot arrangement determined by the arrangement determination unit is within a predetermined range; and an ejection control unit to control the print head to eject ink having the plurality of sizes determined by the size determination unit in positions of a print medium based on the arrangement determined by the arrangement determination unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125720 | PRESSURE REGULATION SYSTEM - A pressure regulation system for a high throughput inkjet printer uses a peristaltic pump to provide a meniscus vacuum to the printheads. A peristaltic pump is a small and inexpensive device which can produce a low flow rate suitable for achieving the relatively small meniscus vacuum required by drop on demand systems. Furthermore the pump can operate in both directions, and seals in the event of power loss. | 05-08-2014 |
20140132655 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD CARTRIDGE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A semiconductor device for controlling discharge of a liquid includes a power supply terminal, a ground terminal, driving portions arranged along a straight line between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal to discharge a liquid, a power supply line extending along the straight line from the power supply terminal to supply a power supply voltage to the driving portions, and a ground line extending along the straight line from the ground terminal to supply a ground voltage to the driving portions. A width of the power supply line in a direction perpendicular to the straight line continuously or gradually decreases away from the power supply terminal, and a width of the ground line in the direction continuously or gradually decreases away from the ground terminal. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132656 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY PRIMING - In one example, a liquid dispensing device includes a printhead assembly having a liquid port through which liquid may move between a removable liquid container and the printhead assembly and an air port through which air may flow to and from the container. A pressure source is operatively connected to the air port to pressurize the container to push liquid from the container through the liquid port into the printhead assembly. A vent is operatively connected to the air port to vent the pressurized container to draw froth from the printhead assembly through the liquid port into the container. In another example, a method for priming a printhead assembly includes pushing liquid from a container into the printhead assembly through a liquid port and then pulling froth from the printhead assembly into the container through the liquid port. | 05-15-2014 |
20140139574 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM - In a print control device which prints a monochrome image by discharge of a black ink from a nozzle for discharging an ink, a chromatic color ink in addition to the black ink is discharged in a region where an amount of use of the black ink indicated by monochrome image data representing the monochrome image, is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value. In the region, chromatic color inks of different colors are discharged to positions which do not overlap with each other. | 05-22-2014 |
20140152725 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND AGING METHOD - An embodiment of this invention is directed to preventing a decrease in the number of media printable with ink in an ink tank owing to an increase in waste ink in aging processing, and an increase in aging processing time. According to the embodiment, aging processing is executed as follows in a printing apparatus in which a printhead including a plurality of nozzles and a nozzle array formed from these nozzles and discharge ink is reciprocally scanned in a direction different from the direction of the nozzle array, and an image is printed by forward printing and backward printing. The aging processing is performed by changing the count at which the aging processing is performed, between nozzles at the edge side portion of the nozzle array and nozzles at the center side portion of the nozzle array. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160190 | Print Process For Duplex Printing With Alternate Imaging Order - A method for performing duplex printing with improved throughput has been developed. The method includes forming an image of a back side of a first duplex page and an image of a front side of a second duplex page on an image receiving member. Two recording media sheets are serially passed through a nip to transfer the image of the first duplex page back side to a bare side of a recording media sheet that also bears the image of the front side of the first duplex page on an obverse side and to transfer the image of the second duplex page to a bare side of a recording media sheet that has not been previously printed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160191 | METHOD FOR PRINTING CONTIGUOUS SWATHS - A method for printing an image on an image receiving member is provided, in which a print head having an array of print elements moves in a scanning direction to print image lines and the image receiving member is advanced in a transport direction after printing a swath. In order to obtain various contiguous swaths of print lines without a light or dark line between the swaths, the position of a prior swath printed preceding to a current swath is determined during the printing of the current swath. A digital mask is applied to the print data that is associated with the print elements at the to the prior swath adjoining edge of the current swath in dependence on the determination of the position of the prior swath. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168298 | IMAGE QUALITY BY PRINTING FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT USING BELT SURFACE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT - Embodiments described herein are directed to a reflex printing system with improved image quality. A media transport moves a media substrate or an intermediate belt along a media path in a process direction past the two or more print heads, which deposit inks onto the media substrate or the intermediate belt. A velocity measuring device directly measures and transmits the speed of the surface of belt or media that is to receive the image to a controller, which sends print commands to the two or more print heads to control the frequency of the printing. The inks deposited on the media substrate or intermediate belt have a color registration of from 10 to 20 microns. | 06-19-2014 |
20140184675 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A liquid ejection device may include a liquid ejection head, a conveyor mechanism, a liquid discharging device, and a control device. The control device may be configured to determine a dimension of a recording medium, and determine one or more first ejection nozzles of the liquid discharging device, which correspond to an edge of the recording medium, based on the dimension. The control device may be further configured to control the liquid discharging device to perform a liquid discharging process after the liquid ejection head records an image onto the recording medium, wherein in the liquid discharging process, an amount of liquid discharged from each of the one or more first ejection nozzles is larger than an amount of liquid discharged from each of one or more second ejection nozzles, which correspond to a more inward area of the recording medium than an area corresponding to the one or more first ejection nozzles. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184676 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention reduces an uneven color of a color having two or more colors of inks, the uneven color occurring due to manufacturing variations of ink ejection nozzles and so on. Each of a plurality of correction tables that is assigned to each predetermined number of nozzles that are used for printing on a common region in the print medium, of a plurality of nozzle arrays formed on a print head, each of the nozzle arrays ejecting a plurality of inks including a first ink and a second ink whose color is different from the color of the first ink, is generated on the basis of at least an ink ejection property of nozzles ejecting the first and second inks. | 07-03-2014 |
20140204139 | PIXEL DATA PROCESSING - A system includes a first memory to store pixel data, a first processing stage to process the pixel data in a nozzle axis major order to provide pre-aligned nozzle data, a second memory to store the pre-aligned nozzle data, a second processing stage to process the pre-aligned nozzle data in a print sweep axis major order to provide post-aligned nozzle data, a third memory to store the post-aligned nozzle data, and a third processing stage to process the post-aligned nozzle data in the nozzle axis major order to provide processed nozzle data. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204140 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device include a control section that causes the head to execute an ejection operation of forming an image forming dot for printing an image designated as a print target and a flushing dot other than the image forming dot on a printing medium, wherein the control section has an acquiring unit that acquires a prescribed parameter in printing conditions for forming the image forming dot on the printing medium, a determining unit that determines a margin area in which the flushing dot is not formed in an end portion of the printing medium based on the prescribed parameter, and an executing unit that executes the ejection operation so as not to form the flushing dot in the margin area on the printing medium. | 07-24-2014 |
20140218427 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus including: a print head having a plurality of nozzle arrays; a scanning unit configured to perform scanning by the print head in a first direction and in a second direction; an adjusting unit configured to adjust an amount of the ink ejection from a first nozzle unit consisted from predetermined number of nozzles arranged in one of end positions of a first nozzle array, the number of nozzle arrays arranged in a side of the first direction from the first nozzle array is lower than the number of nozzle arrays arranged in a side of the second direction from the first nozzle array; and a control unit, the adjusting unit adjusts the amount of the ink ejection such that amount of ink ejection in the scan of the first direction is smaller than amount of ink ejection in the scan of the second direction. | 08-07-2014 |
20140247298 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRINTING USING AN INK JET METHOD WITH RESPECT TO A MEDIUM - A printing apparatus in which printing is performed using an ink jet method includes a first ink jet head that discharges ink droplets of ink of a first color which is a color of the same color type as an expression color that is set in advance, a second ink jet head that discharges ink droplets of ink of a second color which is a color of the same color type as the expression color and is different from the first color, and a control unit which makes the first and the second ink jet head perform printing with the expression color on a medium by setting a ratio of a discharge amount of ink of the first color by the first ink jet head to a discharge amount of ink of the second color by the second ink jet head to a discharge rate which is calculated in advance. | 09-04-2014 |
20140253617 | Device and Method for Spraying Ink - Provided herein a device for discharging ink, the device comprising: a nozzle body comprising a chamber for accommodating ink, and a nozzle for discharging the ink to one surface of a target object; an electrode portion attached to or distanced from the nozzle body; a signal generator for applying a voltage to the electrode portion so that electrons may be induced to a liquid surface of the ink and an electrostatic force may be formed, the voltage being lower than a predetermined discharge critical voltage; a nozzle body driver for moving the nozzle body; and a controller for controlling the nozzle body driver to adjust a distance between the nozzle and the one surface of the target object so that an electrostatic force corresponding to the voltage higher than the discharge critical voltage may be formed and thus the ink may be discharged. | 09-11-2014 |
20140267477 | DUPLEX PRINTER WITH MOVABLE PRINT HEAD - A duplex printer system includes a double-sided label web and a duplex printer operable to print both sides of the label web. The label includes exposed adhesive on a first side thereof. The duplex printer includes a printer frame and a pair of print heads arranged to print respective sides of the label web. One of the print heads is shiftably mounted relative to the printer frame for movement into and out of a printing position, in which the print head is operable to print within a printable region of the first side. The print head is selectively shifted out of the printing position so as to avoid contact with exposed adhesive during label web advancement. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267478 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND ACTUATOR APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path formation substrate provided with a pressure generation chamber communicated with at least one nozzle opening through which liquid is ejected; and an actuator apparatus including a vibration plate provided at one face side of the flow path formation substrate and a plurality of piezoelectric elements being formed on the vibration plate. The actuator apparatus includes two first piezoelectric elements arranged at positions facing edge portions in at least one direction of the pressure generation chamber and a second piezoelectric element arranged between the two first piezoelectric elements. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285545 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - A control section of a printing device has a print instruction receiving section configured to receive print instructions to a printing medium including a plurality of pages, and an ink use analyzing section configured to analyze image forming dots formed on each page and to output each of ink use information and ink non-use information for each page. The control section is configured to acquire the ink non-use information of a given first page of continuous pages of the plurality of pages and the ink use information of a second page that is a next page of the first page, and to determine to use ink, that is not used in the first page shown by the ink non-use information and is used in the second page shown by the ink use information, at least for flushing dots to the first page. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285546 | Printing Apparatus and Printing Method - There is provided a printing apparatus that includes a head unit which can form a plurality of dots of different sizes including a first dot and a second dot. The printing apparatus includes: a first print mode having a plurality of gradation reproduction regions including a first gradation reproduction region of a first print mode and a second gradation reproduction region of the first print mode; and a second print mode having a plurality of gradation reproduction regions including a first gradation reproduction region of a second print mode and a second gradation reproduction region of the second print mode. In the printing apparatus, a print speed in the first print mode is lower than a print speed in the second print mode, and the first gradation reproduction region of the first print mode is larger than the first gradation reproduction region of the second print mode. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285547 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - There is provided a flush box in an area other than a recording area in an end portion of a range in which a recording head can be driven in a main scanning direction. A control circuit performs control such that it is determined whether or not a flag is turned on for flushing operation in step S | 09-25-2014 |
20140285548 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a discharge section, a charge supply source, first and second signal paths, and a connection path selection section. The connection path selection section uses the first or second signal path to electrically connect a piezoelectric element and the charge supply source. The charge supply source include a number n (where n is a plurality) of capacitive elements, and a switching section configured and arranged to switch between a series state where the n capacitive elements are electrically connected in series and a parallel state where the n capacitive elements are electrically connected in parallel. In the series state, a given first point out of connection points between the n capacitive elements is connected to the first signal path, and a second point higher than the first point out of the connection points of the n capacitive elements is connected to the second signal path. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285549 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF SUPPLYING LIQUID - A liquid supply apparatus includes a reservoir for storing a liquid therein, a supply path for supplying the liquid from the reservoir to a liquid consuming apparatus, a pump for feeding the liquid from the reservoir to the supply path, and a controller for outputting a driving signal to the pump to control the supply of the liquid. The controller acquires a target feed volume of the liquid from the pump to gradually change a feed volume of the liquid from the pump from a current feed volume to the target feed volume, based on a request signal from the liquid consuming apparatus serving as a destination to which the liquid is supplied. This suppresses an abrupt change in pressure in the liquid consuming apparatus serving as the destination to which the liquid is supplied. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292848 | RECORDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING POSITION OF RECORDING UNIT IN RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus according to a first aspect of the invention comprises a recording unit, a first adjuster, and a second adjuster. The recording unit is configured to record an image on a recording medium, and includes an opposing face to face the recording medium at a time of recording an image on the recording medium. The firs adjuster is configured to rotate a first position and a second position different from the first position, about a first axis perpendicular to the opposing face. The first and second positions are defined on the recording unit. The second adjuster is configured to rotate the first position and the second position about a second axis, different from the first axis, perpendicular to the opposing face. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292849 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - In a printing device, printing is performed by relatively moving a nozzle array for ejecting a liquid droplet with respect to a print medium, a resolution by a nozzle pitch of the nozzle array is lower than a target print resolution, and between liquid droplets ejected by a single nozzle array, liquid droplets are ejected from the same or another nozzle array to attain the target print resolution. Each of a plurality of nozzles in the single nozzle array is printable by changing an ejection density by applying a preset rate thinning when ejecting liquid droplets by relatively moving with respect to the print medium. The printing device is provided with a print control part configured to perform printing by dividing the single nozzle array into a plurality of nozzle blocks and determining the ejection density in every nozzle blocks. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292850 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - In a printing device, a print medium is transferred in a sub-scanning direction, a print head is reciprocately driven in a main scanning direction, a plurality of nozzles for ejecting same color ink in the sub-scanning direction are provided on the print head to form a nozzle array, pairs of nozzle arrays of a plurality of colors are arranged in the main scanning direction so as to be in a symmetrical sequence relative to the main scanning direction, and nozzle data for ejecting the ink at each nozzle in each nozzle array is created to perform printing. The printing device includes an inclination information acquisition part configured to obtain inclination information on an inclination of the nozzle array with respect to the sub-scanning direction, and a nozzle data allocation changing part configured to change the nozzle data to be allocated for each nozzle based on the inclination information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292851 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a head and a control unit. The head discharges an imaging liquid for forming an image, and a supplementary liquid for supplementing formation of the image onto a printing medium. The control unit controls the head to execute a first operation, in which the imaging liquid is discharged onto a first region and a second operation, in which the supplementary liquid is discharged onto a region of the printing medium onto which the imaging liquid is not discharged. The control unit controls the head such that the discharge amount of the supplementary liquid on a second region, which is adjacent to the first region, is less than the discharge amount of the supplementary liquid on a third region, which is a region onto which the imaging liquid is not discharged and is not adjacent to the first region. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292852 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer including a body, a carriage, a recording head, a bendable connecting member, a memory device, and a controller is provided. The controller is configured to execute operations including a deviated amount setting operation and a discharging timing controlling operation. The deviated amount setting operation includes a first recording step, in which a first image is recorded after the carriage is placed at rest for a length being shorter than or equal to a first period; a second recording step, in which a second image is recorded after the carriage is placed at rest for a second period being longer than the first period, and a deviated amount setting step, in which the controller obtains a distance between the first image and the second image and stores the obtained distance in the memory device as a deviated amount. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292853 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head that relatively moves in a first direction with regard to a discharged medium, and discharges liquid with regard to the discharged medium; a transport section that relatively transports the discharged medium in a second direction with regard to the liquid ejecting head; an adsorption section that adsorbs a surface of the discharged medium, which is opposite to the liquid ejecting head; and a control section that performs control such that the adsorption section performs absorption when the liquid ejecting head discharges the liquid with regard to the discharged medium and such that adsorption force is caused to be weak compared to a case in which the liquid is discharged when the discharged medium is relatively transported in the second direction by the transport section. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292854 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF THE SAME - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a support stage that supports a recording medium; a liquid ejecting portion that has a liquid ejecting unit ejecting an ink to the supported recording medium; a ventilation fan that causes a gas to flow between the liquid ejecting unit and the support stage; a throttle portion that increases a flow velocity of the gas; and a controller that is enabled to execute a strong wind mode in which the gas increased in the flow velocity by the throttle portion flows between the liquid ejecting portion and the support stage, and a breeze mode in which the gas before being increased in the flow velocity by the throttle portion flows between the liquid ejecting portion and the support stage. The controller executes the breeze mode during recording work and executes the strong wind mode during non-recording work. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292855 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet printing apparatus that includes at least one print head jetting coating inks, several print heads jetting color inks and a control system controlling print heads, wherein the print heads jetting coating inks and those jetting color inks are in three rows with print heads jetting color inks in the first and third row and those jetting coating inks in the second row, and print heads jetting the same color ink are the same in number. The control system controls all print heads in the three rows to jet inks at the same time to realize double-image printing. The inkjet printing apparatus in the present invention can realize pre-coat printing, post-coat printing, double-image printing and double-speed printing by controlling different rows of print heads to eject ink droplets. In the double-image printing mode, the two images can be the same or different. If the two images are the same, transparency of one of the images can be adjusted. | 10-02-2014 |
20140313249 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MULTICOLOR OVERPRINT OF INTERMITTENT PRINT DEVICE - Disclosed are a multicolour overprint control method and device applicable to an intermittent printing apparatus. According to the operating characteristic of the intermittent printing apparatus, the method solves the problems of overlap and inaccurate overprint of various colours during intermittent printing by controlling the relationship between the distance between adjacent colour group modules of different colours and the motion distance between uniform segments of the intermittent printing apparatus. In addition, the method also sets different inkjet printing modes in accordance with whether the detected inkjet printing of the same colour group module is in a first period, thereby solving the problems of printing media waste and discontinuous printing data. The method achieves multicolour digital inkjet printing by combining the unique motion mode of the printing media thereof, and makes printing contents flexible and changeable on the basis of guaranteeing printing efficiency. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313250 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND POSTURE CHANGE CORRECTING METHOD FOR PRINT HEAD - In a printing apparatus, print position shift caused by a posture change of a print head is appropriately reduced irrespective of causes of the posture change. Specifically, a test pattern is printed, and then, an inclination of a carriage is calculated based on the read result. On this test pattern appears, for example, not only landing position shift caused by the rolling posture change of the carriage but also synthesized position shift caused by a plurality of kinds of posture changes of the carriage. That is to say, on the test pattern to be printed can appear synthesized position shift caused by a plurality of kinds of posture changes occurring on a print head at this time. The posture of the carriage is corrected in such a manner as to suppress the synthesized position shift. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313251 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - When dot data indicating whether or not a dot is to be formed is formed based on the gradation value for each pixel forming an image, dots belonging to a plurality of pixel groups are printed in a common region in an overlapping manner, and the distribution of dots formed in the common region has a noise characteristic possessing a peak in the spatial frequency region on the high-frequency side. In a case where first and second pixels belonging, respectively, to two pixel groups are proximal pixels in the common region in a predetermined gradation range in which probabilities k1 and k2 at which a dot is formed in the first and second pixels are such that k1<0.5 and k2<0.5, a probability K of a dot being formed in both of the proximal pixels is set to be close to k1·k2. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313252 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first carriage movement mode, in which a stop position of a carriage in movement of this time is determined to be at a given position in a width direction on the basis of a size in the width direction of a liquid-ejected medium, and a second carriage movement mode, in which the stop position of the carriage in the movement of this time is determined on the basis of at least one of the liquid ejection data in the movement of this time or the liquid ejection data in the movement of the next time, and liquid ejection is carried out with one of the first carriage movement mode and the second carriage movement mode selected in accordance with the type of liquid-ejected medium. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313253 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To provide an ink jet recording apparatus in which the residual vibration of any ink can be prevented to avoid the spread of the ink at an opening portion and to perform the continuous discharge of the ink stably. An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a recording head including a pressure chamber and a nozzle, the pressure chamber containing ink, the nozzle communicating with the pressure chamber and having an opening portion formed therein to discharge the ink, a piezoelectric element forming part of the pressure chamber, and a driving signal producing section producing a driving signal to be input to the piezoelectric element to change the volume of the pressure chamber. | 10-23-2014 |
20140320558 | EPROM STRUCTURE USING THERMAL INK JET FIRE LINES ON A PRINTHEAD - An integrated circuit (IC) erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) structure for a thermal inkjet printhead includes: a fire line to provide fire line data; a select line to provide selecting data; a firing cell coupled to the fire line; an EPROM cell coupled to the fire line; a selector cell coupled to the select line, the firing cell and the EPROM cell; and a data switching circuit to provide address data to the firing cell or the EPROM cell. The data switching circuit and the selector cell selectively enable transfer of the fire line data from the fire line to the firing cell or the EPROM cell as a function of state of the selecting data on the select line and the address data from the data switching circuit. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320559 | PRINTHEAD CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A PRINTHEAD - Printhead control systems and methods for controlling a printhead A printhead control system comprises a voltage supply control module to selectively supply an operating voltage to a printhead, and the voltage supply control module is configured to receive a first and a second control voltages, and to disconnect the supply of operating voltage to the printhead at least when the first and second control voltages have the same logical level. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320560 | CONTROL A PRINTER CARRIAGE - A method to control a printer carriage in which the printer carriage is controlled to move along a first axis at a first predetermined speed when a printhead, installed on the printer carriage, is ejecting printing fluid in a print zone. The printer carriage is moveable bidirectionally along the first axis in swaths to enable the printhead to print in the print zone. The printer carriage is also controlled to move along the first axis at a second predetermined speed, higher than the first predetermined speed, when the printhead is not ejecting printing fluid in the print zone. | 10-30-2014 |
20140327712 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, TESTING METHOD, AND MEDIUM WITH RECORDED PROGRAM - There is provided a technique with which an abnormal discharge state in a discharge component can be determined on the basis of residual vibration. A printer includes a discharge component that discharges ink, a detector that detects residual vibration in the discharge component, and a tester that tests the discharge component on the basis of the change in the period of the residual vibration. | 11-06-2014 |
20140340440 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347415 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row that are adjacent to each other in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording medium, a plurality of nozzles being arrayed in the conveying direction in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, each of the nozzles ejecting one of p types of droplets including a predetermined specific type of droplets, the p being an integer equal to or greater than three; a moving unit that relatively reciprocates the recording medium and the recording head in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; and a control unit that controls ejection of the p types of droplets from the nozzles, wherein the nozzles in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are divided into (p−1) nozzle groups in the conveying direction, first nozzles of the nozzles in a k-th nozzle group (1≦k≦p−1) in the conveying direction and in one of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row ejects the specific type of droplets, and second nozzles of the nozzles in the k-th nozzle group in the conveying direction and in other one of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row ejects one of the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets, nozzles of each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets ejects different one of the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets, nozzles of one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at first in the conveying direction and nozzles of other one of the nozzle groups (p−1) ejecting the specific type of droplets at second in the conveying direction belong to different nozzle rows, and the control unit controls to eject, in one of directions of the reciprocal movement, the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets and to eject the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at first in the conveying direction and from the nozzles of the other one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at second in the conveying direction, and controls to eject, in other one of the directions of the reciprocal movement, the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets. | 11-27-2014 |
20140354720 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A recent inkjet printing apparatus includes a large-capacitance capacitor to stabilize a heater power supply. The presence of this capacitor requires a long time to drop the heater voltage at the time of power shutdown or the like. For this reason, an unwanted heater current may flow during the drop. To solve this problem, in this embodiment, a high voltage logic circuit is provided near a printing element, and a terminal is provided so that a signal can directly be input to this circuit. Heater driving control is performed via the terminal. This makes it possible to reliably control the heater regardless of the logic power supply state even if the logic voltage abruptly drops at the time of power shutdown or the like. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354721 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING MEDIUM, AND PRINTING METHOD - For a lenticular in which a lens body having low shape accuracy is disposed on one end portion, when the other end portion of the lenticular is detected, a position of a carriage at the time of detecting the end portion of the lenticular is stored in a buffer as a paper end position, a carriage motor is controlled such that the carriage is separated from a home position and moved in a main scanning direction, and a printing head is controlled such that an ink discharge having a color according to printing data is started at the paper end position. Since the lens body having high shape accuracy is disposed on the end portion of the lenticular, it is possible to land the ink onto a more suitable position with respect to the lens body, thereby allowing printing quality to be improved. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354722 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - When printing is performed by discharging ink from a printing head onto a lenticular, a carriage motor is controlled such that a carriage is moved in a main scanning direction at a velocity which is slower than a movement velocity of the carriage at the time of performing a normal printing process with respect to a recording medium different from the lenticular as a recording paper and further separated from a home position, and the printing head is controlled such that an ink discharge having a color according to printing data is started with respect to an end portion of the lenticular, and thus the printing of one pass is started. Since the velocity is slower than the movement velocity of the carriage at the time of performing the normal printing process, it is possible to improve printing quality at the time of performing printing with respect to the lenticular. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362134 | METHOD FOR FULL BLEED PRINTING - The invention relates to a method for full bleed printing using an inkjet printing apparatus. In the method for full bleed printing, a reference pattern is applied on the receiving medium in a current swath. The carriage of the inkjet printing apparatus and the receiving medium are moved with respect to one another in the sub scanning direction and in a subsequent swath, the distance between the reference pattern and a side edge of the receiving medium is determined, and based on the determined distance between the reference pattern and the side edge of the receiving medium, dots to be printed in an area between the side edge of the receiving medium and the reference pattern are determined. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368566 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A carriage including a sensor scans a printing medium, and a measurement value measured by the sensor is stored in a memory over the scanning range. When a predetermined event occurs, storage control for storing the measurement value in the memory is performed. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368567 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT TIMING CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a printing apparatus that can perform print timing control while moving a print head with high precision even when variation in moving speed of the print head is relatively large. More specifically, a prediction speed is obtained based on a detected moving speed of the print head and a control target speed at the time of detection, and then a print timing of the print head is controlled based on the prediction speed. Accordingly, a correction speed of the print timing is considered to be the obtained prediction speed. This makes it possible to minimize a landing error even when a speed variation is large. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368568 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM, AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD - According an aspect of the present invention, when causing the liquid ejection head to perform a feeding operation along a first direction, the substrate is retracted outside the projected feeding region of the liquid ejection head and the supporting member thereof prior to starting the feeding operation of the liquid ejection head, preventing dusts and other foreign matters, generated as a result of the feeding operation of the liquid ejection head and the supporting member, from being deposited on a surface of the substrate onto which the liquid is to be deposited. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368569 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image. | 12-18-2014 |
20140375710 | NOZZLE LAYOUTS FOR PRINTHEADS - Nozzle layouts for printheads are described. In an example, a printhead includes a first set of drop ejectors having orifices with circular bores, and a second set of drop ejectors having orifices with non-circular bores. A processor receives printing data representing an image to be printed to media, and provides firing data to the printhead for activating the drop ejectors. The firing data selects the drop ejectors with the circular bores to print graphic elements of the image and selecting the drop ejectors with the non-circular bores to print textual elements or line elements of the image. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375711 | PRINTING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing element substrate, comprising a plurality of units configured to print on a printing medium based on print data, each of the plurality of units, including a printing element configured to print on the printing medium, a first transistor configured to operate as a source follower upon receiving a voltage at a gate terminal of the first transistor, and supply a current to the printing element, and a second transistor configured to control supply of the current to the printing element in response to a control signal input to a gate terminal of the second transistor. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375712 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEAD, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF THE SAME METHODS - A control device of controlling a liquid droplet ejection head includes a head substrate; a head controller applying a drive voltage to the head substrate to control the ejection of liquid droplets; a relay substrate connecting the head substrate and the head controller; a main-body controller controlling the head controller; and a voltage conversion circuit disposed in the relay substrate. Further, the voltage conversion circuit converts a resistance value in accordance with a temperature of the head substrate into an output voltage, the relay substrate inputs the output voltage into the main-body controller, and the main-body controller detects the temperature based on the output voltage and determines the drive voltage based on the detected temperature. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375713 | Inkjet Printer - An inkjet printer is provided with an influence calculation portion and a device control portion. The influence calculation portion calculates an influence indicating a degree of an influence of generation of a satellite on a printing condition. The device control portion controls discharging timing of an inkjet head so that ink is discharged in order by each row of a plurality of nozzle rows for each pixel row on a sheet as a printing target, if the influence calculated by the influence calculation portion exceeds a predetermined threshold value. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375714 | Printing Up To Edges of Printing Paper Without Platen Soiling - Images are printed up to the edges of a print medium while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets are ejected without blank space up to the edges of the medium according to print data. The print medium is supported opposite a dot-recording head. Ink droplets are ejected to a first area lying outside of an upper edge of the print medium and to a second area lying outside of a lower edge of the print medium. A length of the second area in a sub-scanning direction is greater than a length of the first area in the sub-scanning direction. In device embodiments, control of such operations is provided by a controller. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009252 | LIQUID DROP EJECTION STATE DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A liquid drop ejection state detection device includes a plurality of nozzle sequences configured to have a plurality of nozzles, a light-emitting element configured to emit a light beam incident on a liquid drop from each nozzle of each nozzle sequence, a light-receiving element provided at a position outside a beam diameter of the light beam and configured to receive scattered light from the liquid drop and detect an ejection state of the liquid drop based on an amount of the scattered light, a light-emitting element movement part configured to move the light-emitting element in a direction intersecting with a light axis of the light beam, and an adjustment part configured to adjust an amount of light of the light beam emitted from the light-emitting element. | 01-08-2015 |
20150015624 | DOT RECORDING APPARATUS, DOT RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR - A main scan pass which relatively moves a recording head and a recording medium in a main scan direction and forms dots on the recording medium, and a sub-scan which relatively moves the recording medium and the recording head in a sub-scan direction that intersects with the main scan direction, are performed, and thereby multi-pass recording which completes forming of the dots on a main scan line by N (2 or more) main scan passes is performed. A dot rate represents a rate of pixels in which dot recording is performed in each main scan pass and is set so as to be changed gradually and periodically over sections in the main scan direction. The number of values of the dot rates different from each other in the plurality of sections lined up in the main scan direction is set so as to be equal to or greater than 3. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015625 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a predetermined mask pattern, recording permitted pixels are disposed such that the average of the numbers of the recording permitted pixels in a unit in a first area is smaller than the number of the recording permitted pixels in a unit in a second area that is located toward an end side as compared to the first area in a direction corresponding to an array direction of nozzles. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015626 | DOT RECORDING APPARATUS, DOT RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - Multi-pass recording is executed for each of n types of super cell regions that are each defined as a region that contains pixel positions in which recording of dots is performed in various types of main scan passes of n types of main scan passes. The n types of super cell regions (i) include a boundary portion that is not parallel to either a main scanning direction or a sub-scanning direction in at least a portion of a boundary of the individual super cell regions, and (ii) are arranged such that the boundary of the n types of super cell regions appears periodically repeating along both the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015627 | INKJET PRINTHEAD DRIVER CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A drive circuit for repetitively energising a printhead ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150022573 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF RECORDING IMAGE - An image recording apparatus includes a plurality of recording heads arranged in a staggered configuration in a width direction. Adjacent ones of the recording heads have respective adjacent nozzles for ejecting ink droplets onto positions adjacent to each other in the width direction on a recording medium. For recording an image, a correction area rate less than a dot area rate of an input mage in a recording position of each of the adjacent nozzles is calculated from the dot area rate. Then, ink droplets are ejected from each of the adjacent nozzles in accordance with the correction area rate. As a result, the amounts of ink droplets ejected from the adjacent nozzles are limited. For a recording process using a head unit including the recording heads arranged in a staggered configuration, this suppresses the occurrence of unevenness in density due to an undesirable flow or bleeding of ink at the boundary between recording regions of the recording heads. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022574 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus which performs printing by performing scanning using a print head has a problem in that quality of an image of a ruled line is degraded when ink is not ejected for a certain period of time. To address this problem, control is performed such that power for driving the print head for unit regions including pixels having a ruled-line attribute becomes higher than power for driving the print head for unit regions which do not include the pixels having the ruled-line attribute. By this, a high-quality ruled-line image may be printed. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022575 | PEAK ENERGY REDUCTION PRINTHEAD SYSTEM - A printhead system to reduce peak energy usage may include a printhead including a plurality of primitives including nozzles. A printhead control module may control the printhead to increase printed pixel resolution and to reduce peak pixel fill density for print media. The printhead control module may further control the printhead such that all the nozzles with a same address generally disposed in a column do not fire at the same time. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029245 | PRINTING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing element substrate, comprising a printing unit including a printing element and a transistor, a logic circuit unit configured to be supplied with a first power supply voltage and receive print data, a unit configured to be supplied with a second power supply voltage and output a signal from the logic circuit unit to a control terminal of the transistor, a voltage generation unit configured to be supplied with a third power supply voltage and generate the second power supply voltage using the third power supply voltage, and a controlling unit configured to control supply of the third power supply voltage to the voltage generation unit, wherein when the first power supply voltage is not supplied to the logic circuit unit, the controlling unit does not supply the third power supply voltage to the voltage generation unit. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029246 | PRINTING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing element substrate, comprising a printing element, a MOS transistor having a drain terminal, a source terminal and a back gate terminal, the drain terminal being connected to a first power supply node for receiving a first voltage, and a source terminal and a back gate terminal being connected to the printing element, and a unit including a second power supply node different from the first power supply node, and configured to supply a second voltage to a gate terminal of the MOS transistor, wherein, when the first voltage is not supplied to the first power supply node, the unit controls a potential of at least one of the gate terminal and the drain terminal so that a potential difference between the gate terminal and the drain terminal becomes lower than the second voltage. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029247 | METHOD OF GENERATING PRINT DATA FOR INKJET PRINTHEAD - A method of generating print data for an inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: receiving image data for a print job in a printer controller; retrieving keep-wet pattern data for each ink plane of the printhead, the retrieved keep-wet pattern data being determined using one or more input parameters; generating first print data for each ink plane in the printer controller based on the received image data; merging the first print data with the keep-wet pattern data to provide second print data for each ink plane; and sending the second print data from the printer controller to the printhead, thereby causing the printhead to print an image together with a keep-wet pattern. The keep-wet pattern is defined by a plurality of dots printed at a frequency sufficient to maintain hydration of each nozzle in the printhead. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029248 | METHOD OF INKJET PRINTING AND MAINTAINING NOZZLE HYDRATION - A method of printing from a fixed inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: feeding a print medium past the printhead in a media feed direction, the media feed direction defining relative upstream and downstream sides of the printhead; printing an image onto the print medium, the image being defined by image data; | 01-29-2015 |
20150029249 | CONTROL METHOD FOR LIQUID EJECTING SYSTEM AND LIQUID EJECTING SYSTEM - A control method for a liquid ejecting system provided with a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting portion for ejecting a liquid and an inputting apparatus including a data inputting portion through which data can be inputted includes a specific data detecting process that detects whether or not input data inputted to the data inputting portion is specific data which is other than liquid ejection data for causing a liquid corresponding to an image to be formed on an ejection target medium to be ejected from the liquid ejecting portion and which is determined in advance as data for prompting an ejection inspection; and a nozzle inspecting process that, in the case where the specific data is detected in the specific data detecting process, causes a nozzle inspecting portion to perform the ejection inspection. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029250 | Inkjet Issue Determination - Determining an issue in an inkjet nozzle may include activating a drive bubble formation mechanism in an ink chamber to eject an ink droplet through the inkjet nozzle and measuring the drive bubble in the ink chamber after the drive bubble formation mechanism is activated. | 01-29-2015 |
20150042707 | METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - [Object] To provide a method of driving a liquid ejection head capable of reducing liquid ejection characteristic variations when a driving signal is delayed and then driven and a recording apparatus. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049135 | PRINTING SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR PRINTING - A printing system for printing a repeated pattern of esthetical and/or informative character on a substrate including a plurality of parallel webs is provided. The printing system comprises at least two overlapping non-impact printer units, each of which having a lateral elongation defining a maximum printing width, and a controller connected to each one of the printer units and configured to set an actual printing width extending between a start position and an end position of the lateral elongation, wherein the controller is configured to determine the actual printing width by receiving the lateral position of a non-printed area defined by the interface between two adjacent webs of the substrate and located laterally somewhere in the overlap between two printer units, such that the end position of a first printer unit and the start position of an overlapping printer unit is located within the non-printed area. | 02-19-2015 |
20150054866 | PRINT APPARATUS, PRINT METHOD, AND SERIAL PRINTER - A print apparatus that is configured to cause a print head provided with nozzles and a printing substrate to move relatively, eject an ink from the nozzles, and record dots onto the printing substrate includes a print control unit. The print control unit is configured to perform a control for ejecting the ink from the nozzles, and the print control unit modifies a proportion at which dots are formed adjacent to one another depending on an ejected amount of ink. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054867 | PRINT NOZZLE AMPLIFIER WITH CAPACITIVE FEEDBACK - An apparatus includes an operational amplifier to drive a print nozzle. A continuous time capacitive network can be employed as feedback by the operational amplifier. A reset control can be provided to adjust startup voltages in the continuous time capacitive network. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054868 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: an original drive signal generation unit which generates an original drive signal; a signal modulation unit which modulates the original drive signal to generate a modulation signal; a first signal amplifying unit which amplifies the modulation signal to generate a first amplified modulation signal; a second signal amplifying unit which amplifies the modulation signal to generate a second amplified modulation signal; an amplification control unit which controls operations of the first signal amplifying unit and the second signal amplifying unit; a signal conversion unit which converts the first amplified modulation signal and the second amplified modulation signal into a drive signal; a plurality of piezoelectric elements which is deformed by the drive signal; a plurality of cavities which expands or contracts in accordance with the deformation of the plurality of piezoelectric elements; a plurality of nozzles which communicates with each of cavities. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054869 | DROPLET DISCHARGING METHOD AND DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A droplet discharging method includes: forming a plurality of dots on a first region of a medium, on a second region which is positioned in a −Y direction from the first region, and on a third region which is positioned in the −Y direction from the second region. The dots are formed on the first region by using a first head and a second head to cause a second head use ratio to be constant, the dots are formed on the second region by using the first head and the second head so as to cause the second head use ratio to be increased from a value less than a first set value to a value greater than a second set value greater than the first set value in the −Y direction, and the dots are formed on the third region by using the second head. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054870 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DRIVING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE and LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A piezoelectric device comprises a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric layer formed of a complex oxide having a perovskite structure including bismuth, iron, barium, and titanium, and a pair of electrodes placing the piezoelectric layer therebetween. The piezoelectric element is driven with a first drive mode and a second drive mode. In the first drive mode, the piezoelectric element is driven at a first speed, and is held to a first voltage V | 02-26-2015 |
20150054871 | DROPLET DISCHARGING METHOD AND DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A droplet discharging method includes: forming a plurality of dots on a first region of a medium, on a second region which is positioned in a −Y direction from the first region, and on a third region which is positioned in the −Y direction from the second region. The dots are formed on the first region by using a first head, the dots are formed on the second region by using the first head and a second head so that a second head use ratio is increased from a value less than a first set value to a value greater than a second set value greater than the first set value in the −Y direction, and the dots are formed on the third region by using the first head and the second head to cause the second head use ratio to be constant. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062211 | INK JET APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INK JET APPARATUS - An ink jet apparatus includes a plurality of actuators discharge a liquid from a discharge port according to a driving signal input to an input terminal; a driving selector that outputs a drive switch control signal; a plurality of drive switches connect or disconnect the input terminal of the actuator and a driving signal source according to the drive switch control signal for the actuator, and allow the driving signal to pass therethrough and input the driving signal to the input terminal when the input terminal and the driving signal source are connected; a detection circuit that detects a voltage of the input terminal when being connected to the input terminal; and a plurality of detection switches connect or disconnect the input terminal of the actuator and the detection circuit, on the basis of the drive switch control signal or the driving signal passed through the drive switch. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062212 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An element substrate capable of suppressing occurrence of electromagnetic noise upon driving printing elements on an element substrate with long wiring lengths, preventing an operation error, and printing a high-quality image is provided. In the element substrate, plural element substrates each including printing elements are arrayed in an arrayed direction of the printing elements. Each element substrate including a wiring for supplying a driving power to drive the printing elements, and a ground wiring from the printing elements is configured as follows. Each element substrate includes a delay circuit for delaying a heat enable signal to drive the printing elements and supplying it to each printing element, and a switchover circuit for switching over, in accordance with a control signal, a delay sequence when supplying the heat enable signal to each printing element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062213 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND HEAT UNIT - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a signal modulation section that causes an original drive signal to be pulse-modulated to generate a modulation signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation signal to generate an amplification modulation signal, a coil that smooths the amplification modulation signal to generate a drive signal, a piezoelectric element that deforms when the drive signal is applied thereto, a cavity that expands or contracts due to a deformation of the piezoelectric element, and a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and ejects a liquid in accordance with an increase/decrease of a pressure inside the cavity. A core material of the coil is made of a Mn—Zn-based ferrite. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062214 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND HEAT UNIT - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a signal modulation section that causes an original drive signal to be pulse-modulated to generate a modulation signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation signal to generate an amplification modulation signal, a coil that smooths the amplification modulation signal to generate a drive signal, a piezoelectric element that deforms when the drive signal is applied thereto, a cavity that expands or contracts due to a deformation of the piezoelectric element, and a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and ejects a liquid in accordance with an increase/decrease of a pressure inside the cavity. The coil is a ferrite core-type coil, and a core gap is provided to be equal to or wider than 1.1 mm. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062215 | RECORDING HEAD CONTROLLING APPARATUS, RECORDING HEAD, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording head controlling apparatus includes: a restoration unit configured to restore a clock signal and an image signal from a serial signal in which the clock signal and the image signal are superimposed and store it in a storage unit; and a transmission control unit configured to receive a synchronization signal of a driving waveform to drive each piezoelectric element and transmit the image signal stored in the storage unit to a driving unit for driving the piezoelectric element at a timing corresponding to the synchronization signal. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062216 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A nail print apparatus, including: a print head which performs printing on a nail of a finger or a nail of a toe; an unprinted region detecting unit which detects an unprinted region on which a nail design is not printed in the nail having a printed region on which the nail design is printed, the unprinted region being generated by growth of the nail after the nail design is printed; and a printing control unit which controls the print head to perform printing on the unprinted region. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062217 | DOT DATA GENERATING METHOD, DOT DATA GENERATING DEVICE, INKJET RECORDING DEVICE, AND INKJET RECORDING SYSTEM - A dot data generating method uses a first inkjet recording device and a second inkjet recording device, in which a first image is printed using the first inkjet recording device based on first dot data which determines formation or non-formation of dots, and second dot data is generated to print a second image based on the second dot data using the second inkjet recording device in which a speed of a relative movement of the inkjet head and a recording medium when printing an image is small compared to the first inkjet recording device. The dot data generating method includes generating the second dot data by converting the first dot data such that data of each dot in which formation of a dot is determined is converted to form a plurality of dots at predetermined intervals between the dots in a relative movement direction in place of the each dot. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070418 | DUPLEX PRINTING - According to one example, there is provided a method of duplex printing. The method comprises printing recto pages and associated recto checkmarks on a first side of a web and printing verso pages and associated verso checkmarks on a second side of a web, the length of each successively printed recto and verso checkmark varying in accordance with a respective recto and verso checkmark length sequence, determining the length of successive printed verso and recto checkmarks and determining their sequence position in the appropriate checkmark length sequence, and determining whether a print error has occurred based on the determined recto and verso checkmark sequence positions. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070419 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printer includes a print head, a nozzle position and a print control section. The print head includes a plurality of nozzles to eject ink. The nozzle position specifying section is configured to specify a position of a first nozzle of the plurality of nozzles that exhibits defective ejection of the ink. The print control section is configured to eject the ink from the plurality of nozzles based on image data. The print control section is configured to determine a density of second pixels, which are positioned adjacent to first pixels to be printed by the first nozzle that was specified, and a density of third pixels, which are positioned adjacent to the second pixels except the first pixels, based on the image data, and to correct to increase the density of the second pixels and to reduce the density of the third pixels. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070420 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes an ejection unit including a piezoelectric element that is displaced according to a driving signal, and a nozzle capable of ejecting the liquid; a driving signal supply unit that supplies the driving signal; a detection unit that detects change of an electromotive force of the piezoelectric element; a determination unit that determines an ejection state of the liquid in the ejection unit based on the detection result of the detection unit; and a decision unit that is capable of performing a first process of deciding a waveform of the driving signal for inspection such that the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle when the driving signal for inspection is supplied to the piezoelectric element and a second process of correcting the waveform decided in the first process and deciding the corrected waveform as a waveform of the driving signal for inspection. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070421 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control circuit is disposed in which an analog switch is built, an ON/OFF-timing of the analog switch can be controlled, and mask-patterns can be set, which mask-patterns are used for switching ON/OFF the analog switch can be selected by analog-switch-selection data, and a number of the mask-patterns which can be set can be selected. The circuit includes mask-pattern-setting units for setting one of the mask-patterns by one of switching control signals; and a selection unit for selecting a mode from modes including a first mode in which the number of mask-patterns is smaller and a second mode in which the number of mask-patterns is larger. When the first mode is selected by the selection unit, to one mask-pattern-setting unit which is not selected by the analog-switch-selection data, the same switching control signal that is supplied to another mask-pattern-setting unit which is selected by the analog-switch-selection data is supplied. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077450 | PRINTING METHOD FOR PRINTING A FUNCTIONAL PATTERN AND A PRINTING APPARATUS - In a method for printing a functional pattern using a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus applying a recording material on a substrate, the method includes determining a first part and a second part of the functional pattern, and controlling the printing apparatus such to apply a first amount of the recording material per unit area on the substrate to cover the first part and a second amount of the recording material per unit area on the substrate to cover the second part, wherein the first amount is larger than or equal to an amount sufficient to cover the substrate per unit area and the second amount is larger than the first amount. A printing apparatus includes a print head and a control unit. The control unit is configured to have the printing apparatus to execute the method for printing. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085005 | DECORATING METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DECORATING SYSTEM - Pattern information for identifying a pattern and color information for identifying a color are acquired. Image data corresponding to the acquired pattern information and color information is acquired from a storage unit configured to store at least two types of image data out of first to fourth image data. The first image data corresponds to first pattern information for identifying a first pattern and first color information for identifying a first color. The second image data corresponds to the first pattern information and second color information for identifying a second color. The third image data corresponds to second pattern information for identifying a second pattern and the first color information. The fourth image data corresponds to the second pattern information and the second color information. A colored pattern corresponding to the acquired image data is recorded onto a base material. | 03-26-2015 |
20150091957 | Carriage Moving Device, Method and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Containing Instructions to Execute Carriage Moving Method - A carriage moving device has a motor, and a carriage. The carriage moves in a first direction when the motor rotates forwardly, while the carriage moves in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction when the motor rotates reversely. The carriage moving device further includes a facing object having a plurality of reflection ratios at a plurality of positions in the scanning direction. A first sensor unit has a light emitting unit configured to emit light to the facing object and a light receiving unit configured to receive light reflected by the facing object. A second sensor unit is configured to output a second signal in response to movement of the carriage. The controller notifies an error of the second sensor unit in response to a condition where a changing amount of the first signal in the reversing step exceeds a threshold amount and the controller cannot obtain the second signal. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091958 | LIQUID ELECTION APPARATUS, PATTERN GROUP RECORDING METHOD, TILT ANGLE DETECTION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Each of unit patterns includes: a first region which is recorded on a recording medium by liquid ejected from ejection openings of both first and second ejection opening arrays of ejection opening arrays; and at least one second region which is recorded on the recording medium by liquid ejected from the ejection openings of one of the first and the second ejection opening arrays, the first region is a region formed based on dot allocation with which an optical characteristic varies in accordance with intervals of dots formed by the impacted liquid in a fourth direction which is orthogonal to a first direction, and the at least one second region is a region formed based on dot allocation with which the optical characteristic varies in accordance with intervals of the dots formed by the impacted liquid in the first direction. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091959 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a printing unit including an inkjet head that ejects a red ink and an inkjet head that ejects a black ink having resolution twice that of the above-described inkjet head in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, respectively, this printing unit performing printing on a sheet by ejecting inks from the inkjet heads while transferring the sheet; and a controller that controls the printing unit. In a pixel at an edge of a line drawing formed by two color inks, the edge being in a landing deviation direction of a dot with the red ink relative to dots with the black ink, the controller increases the number of drops to the dots with black on the side of the landing deviation direction. | 04-02-2015 |
20150097883 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND DROPLET EJECTING METHOD - A droplet ejecting apparatus which includes a control unit which controls a recording operation in which dots are recorded on a medium by performing multipass recording in which recording of dots which are located in one main scanning line which goes along a main scanning direction is completed in a recording operation in the main scanning direction of N times (N is integer of 2 or greater), and a maintenance operation in which maintenance with respect to an ejecting unit is performed, in which the control unit performs a control so that at least recording operations in the main scanning direction of (N−1) times is performed between the previous maintenance operation and the subsequent maintenance operation when performing maintenance operations of a plurality of times. | 04-09-2015 |
20150103109 | Inkjet Nozzle Flushing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print job data, rasterizing the print job data to generate image data for each page of the print job data to be printed, calculating a coverage per unit area for two or more color planes of each page of the image data and calculating a flushing mask to flush nozzles of the inkjet print head. | 04-16-2015 |
20150116397 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCUMULATING EXCESS INK IN A STATIONARY RECEPTACLE IN IMAGING DEVICES THAT FORM IMAGES ON INTERMEDIATE IMAGING SURFACES - A mechanism enables inkjets in a printhead to be operated to eject ink in an effort to replace ink exposed to ambient conditions with ink from within the printhead. The mechanism includes a controller configured to operate an intermediate imaging member to rotate to align a plurality of apertures with inkjets on a printhead. The inkjets are operated to eject ink through the plurality of apertures and ink from within the printhead replaces the ejected ink without impacting the formation of subsequent ink images. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116398 | PRINTING AN AUTHENTICATION PATTERN WITH MULTI-DEFLECTION CONTINUOUS INKJET PRINTER - A method for printing an authentication pattern wherein, using a multi-deflection continuous inkjet printer, the pattern is printed on a substrate and only contains a small number of black pixels per raster. The resolution in the travel direction X of the substrate and in direction Y of the rasters is thereby largely improved compared with printing in dot-matrix mode, which makes reproduction of the pattern difficult for an infringer not having means to determine the electric charge to be applied to each of the droplets of a train of droplets needed to print each raster of the pattern. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116399 | INK EJECTING PRINTER, INK EJECTING PRINTING SYSTEM, INK EJECTING PRINTER CONTROL METHOD, AND INK EJECTING PRINTER CONTROL PROGRAM - An ink ejecting printer includes a recording head disposed with a prescribed clearance between the recording head and a recording medium having a predetermined length in a main scanning direction and ejects ink droplets onto the recording medium, a partitioning member longer than the recording head that has a predetermined width and can be moved between a position facing the recording head and a retracted position, a supporting member that supports the partitioning member movable between the position facing the recording head and the retracted position, a biasing unit that biases the supporting member toward the partitioning member is at the retracted position, a moving unit that moves the supporting member toward the partitioning member is at the position facing the recording head against the biasing unit, and a drive controller that moves the partitioning member to the position facing the recording head and performs dummy ejection at predetermined times. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124012 | WORKING FLUIDS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ELEVATED TEMPERATURE THERMO-PNEUMATIC ACTUATION - Provided is a thermo-pneumatic actuator which can include a substrate, an insulating layer formed on the substrate, a working fluid disposed in a fluid chamber, an ink chamber separated from the fluid chamber by at least a portion of the device layer comprising an actuatable membrane, and a heating element formed between the insulating layer and the fluid chamber. A boiling point temperature of the working fluid in the fluid chamber is in the range of greater than about 100° C. to about 500° C. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124013 | COLOR-DIRECTIONAL PRINTING - In an embodiment, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to separate image data into dark color data and light color data, and correlate the dark color data with a first printing direction and the light color data with a second printing direction, where the first and second printing directions are opposite one another. The instructions further cause the processor to print the dark color data in the first printing direction and the light color data in the second printing direction. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124014 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus that continuously vary a first boundary formed by different discharge port arrays in an area on a recording medium corresponding to a first overlap portion, and a second boundary formed by different discharge port arrays on an area of the recording medium corresponding to a second overlap portion close to the first overlap portion, wherein a shape of the variation of the first boundary and a shape of the variation of the second boundary are different from each other. | 05-07-2015 |
20150138264 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND DRAWING METHOD THEREOF - A drawing apparatus, including: a drawing unit which performs drawing of a design by applying inks of plural types to a drawing target area of a drawing target; and a control unit which controls the drawing unit on basis of image data of the design; wherein the control unit sets a plurality of unit areas each of which has a contact part contacting with each other in the drawing target area on basis of the image data, and the control unit controls the drawing unit to perform drawing on a specific unit area of the plurality of the unit areas when the control unit determines that every unit area contacting with the specific unit area is at least a dried unit area for which drying of the applied ink is finished or an un-drawn unit area to which the ink is not applied. | 05-21-2015 |
20150145908 | CONTROLLING ADHESIVES BETWEEN SUBSTRATES AND CARRIERS - Controlling adhesives between substrates and carriers includes forming a depression into a bonding area of a backside surface of a substrate of a print head where the bonding area being formed proximate an ink feed slot formed through the thickness of the substrate from the backside surface to a front side surface; placing an adhesive between the bonding area and a substrate carrier, and moving the substrate and the substrate carrier together such that the adhesive flows into the depression. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145909 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus that includes nozzle arrays, formed of nozzles for ejecting ink of the first to fourth ink color groups, and that scans a print medium while moving the nozzle arrays to perform printing. For printing a unit area of a print medium, where printing is to be completed by performing a plurality of scans, the printing apparatus performs a plurality of scans, and conveys, between movements, a print medium a predetermined amount, which is equivalent to the width of the unit area. Then, to perform a plurality of scans using the nozzle arrays for the first to fourth ink color groups, print data are generated, so that for the nozzle arrays that belong to two ink color groups, the nozzle array for the first ink color group is employed to eject ink into the unit area prior to the nozzle array for the second ink color group. | 05-28-2015 |
20150290929 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING STATE OF DISCHARGED LIQUID DROPLET AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A device for detecting a state of a discharged liquid droplet includes a plurality of nozzles which is arranged in a width direction of a recording medium orthogonal to a feeding direction of the recording medium to discharge a liquid droplet toward the recording medium, a light emitter which is provided on one side of the recording medium in the width direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the recording medium, and a light receiver which is provided on the other side of the recording medium in the width direction, wherein the light emitter includes a light-emitting element, a condenser lens which condenses light from the light-emitting element to emit as a light beam, and an aperture stop member including an aperture opening through which the light beam passes. | 10-15-2015 |
20150290930 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - The image processing device divides image data into regions corresponding to a first pixel row, a second pixel row, a third pixel row, and a fourth pixel row, and generate output data, in which a generation rate of an ink droplet with a relatively large size, a generation rate of an ink droplet with a relatively small size, and the amount of ink discharged per unit area vary depending on a gradation value of the image data, for each of the divided regions. At the time of the generation of the output data, different output data items are generated for a third nozzle corresponding to the third pixel row when the first gradation value indicates a relatively high gradation and when the first gradation value indicates a relatively low gradation. | 10-15-2015 |
20150290932 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO STORE DROP COUNTS - An exemplary embodiment of the present technique may include a method including monitoring a number of drops of ink released by a print head of a printing device. The method may also include associating the number of drops of ink with a quanta of charge. The method may also include storing the associated quanta of charge in a memory cell of a programmable read-only memory (PROM) device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150290933 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A fluid ejection device includes a fluid ejection unit that ejects a fluid and an ejection control unit that controls ejection of the fluid. A fluid container accommodates the fluid supplied to the fluid ejection unit. A pressure adjustment unit adjusts an inner pressure of the fluid container such that the inner pressure gets closer to a target pressure than a first threshold value. The ejection control unit has first and second ejection modes. In the first ejection mode, when the inner pressure is closer to the target pressure than a second threshold value separated from the target pressure farther than the first threshold value, the ejection control unit receives a demand for ejection of fluid. In the second ejection mode, even when the inner pressure is not closer to the target pressure than the second threshold value, the ejection control unit receives a demand for ejection of fluid. | 10-15-2015 |
20150306870 | HEAD ADJUSTMENT METHOD, HEAD-DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - According to an aspect of the present invention, in a case where a part of the plurality of head modules to each of which an initial amount of correction is set is replaced, a mounting position of the replaced head module in the first direction varies in a range within the mounting tolerance. However, the initial amount of correction in the first direction of each of the head modules is set by adding the amount of the offset more than the mounting tolerance, a mounting position of the replaced head module is always upstream from the offset reference line in the feeding direction of a recording medium. Thus, it is required to correct only an amount of correction of the replaced head module with reference to the offset reference line, so that the amount of correction of a non-replaced head module can be used without being corrected. | 10-29-2015 |
20150306880 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a head having an ejection face for ejecting liquid; a sealing mechanism which establishes a sealing state in which a sealed space is sealed; a humid-air supply/discharge mechanism which supplies a humid air into the sealed space via an air inlet and discharges the air from the sealed space via an air outlet; and a control device which controls an ejection-face wiper to wipe the liquid from the ejection face by causing its parallel movement with respect to the ejection face in a wiper moving direction directed from a first end area of the ejection face toward its second end area with the ejection-face wiper contacting the ejection face. The air inlet is provided at a position nearer to a downstream end of a moving path of the ejection-face wiper than to an upstream end thereof in the wiper moving direction. | 10-29-2015 |
20150314594 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a first printing head that performs a first printing operation by discharging ink onto the printing medium, a second printing head positioned downstream from the first printing head in a transport direction and performing a second printing operation by discharging ink onto the printing medium, and a preliminary discharge controller that causes the second printing head to perform a preliminary discharging operation that does not contribute to the second printing operation, wherein the preliminary discharge controller causes an ink discharge amount of the preliminary discharging operation of the second printing head to be smaller when an ink discharge amount of the first printing operation is greater than or equal to a predetermined value than when the ink discharge amount of the first printing operation is less than the predetermined value. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314610 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Printing an image on a printing medium includes using a print head that ejects a first ink and a second ink having higher lightness than the first ink with preliminary ejection that is performed in a predetermined area in which the image is to be formed in order to maintain an ink ejection state of the print head and that does not contribute to printing of the image, wherein dots of the first ink and dots of the second ink formed in the predetermined area by the preliminary ejection are printed so as to be superposed on each other. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314615 | OPERATION OF PRINTING SYSTEMS - Operations of printing systems are disclosed. According to examples, a deposition sequence for depositing printing fluids onto a substrate location is dynamically controlled. Sub-groups of nozzles in nozzle arrays are selected according to the deposition sequence. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314621 | IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS, IMAGE PRINTING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present disclosure is directed to an image printing apparatus, image printing method, and image processing apparatus. The image printing apparatus and image printing method print images by controlling the connectivity of dots by using mask patterns having different numbers of print permitting pixels in accordance with the attributes of the images. | 11-05-2015 |
20150321470 | BASE, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LIQUID DISCHARGE STATUS - An embodiment of this invention is directed to determining a discharge status of liquid discharged from a liquid discharge head capable of accurately determining the discharge status of each nozzle at high speed with a simple arrangement. According to the embodiment, a base includes an electrothermal transducer configured to supply heat to liquid, a first temperature detection element configured to detect the temperature of the electrothermal transducer, and a second temperature detection element configured to detect the temperature of the same electrothermal transducer. In this case, the first and the second temperature detection elements are arranged so that at least part of each of the first and second temperature detection elements is included immediately above or below a region where the electrothermal transducer is arranged in the base. | 11-12-2015 |
20150328881 | INKJET PRINTER - In an ejection test of a clear ink nozzle, a controller drives a printing unit to eject a clear ink and a color ink to a sheet such that a dot formed by the clear ink ejected from the clear ink nozzle and a dot formed by the color ink ejected from a color ink nozzle at least partially overlap each other on the sheet, and then determines presence and absence of misfiring in the clear ink nozzle based on a degree of spreading of the dot of the color ink on the sheet after the driving. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328883 | INK JET HEAD HAVING A PLURALITY OF DRIVE CIRCUITS HOUSED IN A CASING - An ink jet head includes an ejection unit including first nozzles arranged along a line, second nozzles arranged parallel to the first nozzles, a first actuator configured to cause ink to be ejected from the first nozzles, and a second actuator configured to cause ink to be ejected from the second nozzles, a first drive circuit configured to drive the first actuator, a second drive circuit configured to drive the second actuator, and a casing. The casing has a first space on a first side of the casing and a second space on a second side of the casing that is opposite to the first side. The first drive circuit is housed in the first space and the second drive circuit is housed in the second space. | 11-19-2015 |
20150336382 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INOPERATIVE INKJETS IN PRINTHEADS EJECTING CLEAR INK USING THERMAL SUBSTRATES - An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing. The apparatus operates the printhead or printheads in the printer to form test pattern on a thermal substrate. The heat of the materials used to form the test pattern change the optical density of the areas where the materials land. The area where the test pattern is formed is imaged and the image data are analyzed to identify inoperative inkjets. | 11-26-2015 |
20150336410 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRINTING A MULTILAYER STRUCTURE USING RADIATION CURABLE INK - A printing system and a method for printing a multilayer structure using radiation curable ink, the multilayer structure comprising multiple ink layers which are consecutively printed, and wherein a first printed ink layer of any two consecutively printed ink layers is cured before a subsequently printed ink layer is printed thereon, wherein at least one ink of multiple inks is selected for being used for printing the multilayer structure, said multiple inks comprising at least one first and at least one second radiation curable ink, wherein said at least one ink is selected in dependence on information about at least one property of the said at least one ink apart from color, wherein, of the multiple inks, at least the selected at least one ink and at least one of the at least one first ink are used for printing the multilayer structure; the physical property being e.g. an expansion/shrinkage property and/or an adhesion property. | 11-26-2015 |
20150343812 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may specify a target transportation pathway to be used for transporting a target print medium, select one type of printing control in accordance with the specified target transportation pathway, and control a print performing unit in accordance with the selected one type of printing control. In each of a first type of printing control and a second type of printing control, when a central image is to be printed, the target print medium is transported by a first transportation amount. In the first type of printing control, when an edge image is to be printed, the target print medium is not transported by a transportation amount greater than the first transportation amount. In the second type of printing control, when the edge image is to be printed, the target print medium is transported by a second transportation amount greater than the first transportation amount. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343814 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharging portion which discharges liquid; a carriage which has the discharging portion mounted thereon, and is provided with a conductive member; a power supply source which supplies power for discharging the liquid from the discharging portion; a housing which has the power supply source installed therein; and a carriage guide axis which supports the carriage to be movable with respect to the housing, in which between the carriage guide axis and the conductive member, a coupling capacitance is formed by electric field coupling, and in which the coupling capacitance is included in a power supplying path to the discharging portion or a discharging path from the discharging portion, in a transmission path of the power. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343818 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may create and supply print data. The print data may include first edge print data and first central print data. The first edge print data may include data for causing a print performing unit to perform printing which satisfies: a print medium is transported along a first direction by a first transportation amount; a first type of main-scanning action is performed; a number of nozzles of a usage nozzle group is maintained to n; and the usage nozzle group is shifted toward an upstream side along the first direction. The first central print data may include data for causing the print performing unit to perform printing which satisfies: the print medium is transported along the first direction by a second transportation amount; a second type of main-scanning action is performed; and the number of nozzles of the usage nozzle group is maintained to n. | 12-03-2015 |
20150352840 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND HEATING UNIT CONTROL METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharge unit that is capable of discharging a liquid, a heating unit that is capable of heating a medium onto which the liquid is discharged, a detection unit that detects an energy that is emitted from a detection range, a control unit that is capable of changing an output of the heating unit on the basis of an energy that the detection unit detects, and a sensing target portion, which has a sensing target surface from which an energy is detected by the detection unit, and the sensing target surface is processed in order to reduce mirror reflection of input light. | 12-10-2015 |
20150352873 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may create, in a case where one of a first printing method and a second printing method is selected, first print data for causing all of K groups of nozzles to discharge ink so as to perform a color printing of a target image, and create, in a case where the other of the first printing method and the second printing method is selected, second print data for causing (K−k) groups of nozzles to discharge ink so as to perform a color printing the target image, the (K−k) groups of nozzles being nozzle groups excluding k groups of nozzles (k being an odd integer satisfying 1≦k12-10-2015 | |
20150359712 | CARTRIDGES FOR THE DEPOSITION OF TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS ON KERATINOUS SURFACES - A micro electromechanical ink jet printing system that has a cartridge having a body that defines a core, and a die that contains one or more nozzles. There is a treatment composition contained within the cartridge core. The system further includes a CPU that is programmable and can control the application of the treatment composition from within the cartridge core, through the one or more nozzles to human skin. Typically, the treatment composition will contain a skin treatment ingredient selected from the group consisting of particles, vitamins, yeast and yeast extracts, skin care actives, dyes, colorants and mixtures thereof. There may optionally be provided a bladder or foam block disposed within the cartridge core for suspending and regulating the flow of the treatment composition. The systems of this invention may include an applicator having an applicator head having one or more applicator nozzles which may be in a array. The applicator has a sensor that takes an image of at least 10 μm | 12-17-2015 |
20150360465 | METHOD OF GENERATING PRINT DATA FOR INKJET PRINTHEAD - A method of generating print data for an inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: receiving image data for a print job in a printer controller; retrieving keep-wet pattern data for each ink plane of the printhead, the retrieved keep-wet pattern data being determined using one or more input parameters; generating first print data for each ink plane in the printer controller based on the received image data; merging the first print data with the keep-wet pattern data to provide second print data for each ink plane; and sending the second print data from the printer controller to the printhead, thereby causing the printhead to print an image together with a keep-wet pattern. The keep-wet pattern is defined by a plurality of dots printed at a frequency sufficient to maintain hydration of each nozzle in the printhead. | 12-17-2015 |
20150360468 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE WITH MIXING BEADS - In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a die substrate with a chiclet adhered by its front side to the die substrate. The fluid ejection device also includes an ink delivery slot formed through the chiclet from its back side to its front side. The fluid ejection device further includes a mixing bead at the back side of the chiclet, adjacent the ink delivery slot. | 12-17-2015 |
20150360489 | Printing a Double-Sided Image and Generating Printer Control Data for Printing Double-Sided Image - According to one example of the present invention there is provided apparatus for generating control data to control an ink jet printer to print a double-sided image on a single side of a substantially transparent substrate. The apparatus comprises a processor for receiving image data of a first and a second image, a printhead control data generator to generate, from the first image, first image printhead control data, and to generate, from the second image, second image printhead control data, and a covering layer printhead control data generator to generate covering layer printhead control data. | 12-17-2015 |
20150360491 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGLE-PASS FAILED NOZZLE COMPENSATION - Compensation algorithms are applied to hide failed nozzles or, at least, reduce the objectionable effect of such nozzles in a printed image. Once a failed nozzle or under-performing nozzle is detected in a single-pass printing system, it is shut-off and the image data that was intended to be printed by this nozzle is redistributed to its neighboring nozzles. Embodiments of the invention use of a 1-D look-up table and stochastically distribute the duty cycle to each neighboring nozzle. In this way, failed nozzles are effectively hidden in the final print. | 12-17-2015 |
20150367629 | METHOD OF INKJET PRINTING AND MAINTAINING NOZZLE HYDRATION - A method of printing from a fixed inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: feeding a print medium past the printhead in a media feed direction, the media feed direction defining relative upstream and downstream sides of the printhead; printing an image onto the print medium, the image being defined by image data; | 12-24-2015 |
20150367632 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - First heating is started at a first time point, and a second heating having higher heating energy than the first heating is started at a second time point subsequent to the first time point. | 12-24-2015 |
20150367661 | Printing Apparatus - A image process unit includes program memory units that each store a corresponding one of programs for an image processing; a data memory unit that stores therein a set of image data; a program memory bus that interconnects a data analysis unit and the image process unit and carries a printing command; a data memory bus that interconnects the data analysis unit and the image process unit and carries the set of image data; a color conversion process unit that performs color conversion processing on the set of image data on the basis of the printing command and one of the programs; a halftone process unit that performs halftone processing on the set of image data having been subjected to the color conversion processing, on the basis of the printing command and the other one of the programs. The color conversion processing and the halftone processing are performed in parallel. | 12-24-2015 |
20150375499 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A apparatus including a head unit that includes first nozzles which eject a first liquid, second nozzles which eject a second liquid, third nozzles which eject a third liquid; and a control unit that controls driving of the head unit, in which, when an amount of the first liquid to be ejected from the first nozzles in order to form an image on the medium is a first ejection amount and an ejection state of the liquid ejected from the first nozzles is abnormal, the control unit increases the amount of the second liquid ejected from the second nozzles by a second ejection amount which is smaller than the first ejection amount and increases the amount of the third liquid ejected from the third nozzles by a third ejection amount which is smaller than the first ejection amount instead of allowing the first nozzles to eject the first liquid. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375502 | INK JET PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An ink jet printer includes an attachment detection portion that detects an attachment of an ink storage member that retains an ink in an absorber contained in the ink storage member itself; an ink jet recording head that ejects an ink flown in from the ink storage member; and a control circuit that controls ink ejection performed by the ink jet recording head. The control circuit is configured to, upon detection, by the attachment detection portion, of an attachment of the ink storage member to be newly used, perform control so as to cause a first operation mode to be set, and thereafter, perform control so as to cause the first operation mode to be switched to a second operation mode, upon satisfaction of a condition in that a total discharge amount of an ink ejected in the first operation mode reaches a prescribed amount. Further, a per-unit-time discharge amount of an ink ejected in the first operation mode is set so as to be smaller than a per-unit-time discharge amount of an ink ejected in the second operation mode. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375503 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including: a first nozzle group including a first and third nozzles which ejects a first liquid; and a second nozzle group including a second nozzle which ejects a second liquid, in which, when an ejection state of the liquid ejected from the one nozzle which belongs to the first nozzle group is abnormal, complementation is performed using complementation modes of a first complementation mode that increases the amount of a liquid to be ejected from the first nozzle instead of allowing the one nozzle to eject the liquid, a second complementation mode that increases the amount of the liquid to be ejected from the second nozzle instead of allowing the one nozzle to eject the liquid, and a third complementation mode that increases the amount of the liquid to be ejected from the third nozzle instead of allowing the liquid to be ejected from the one nozzle. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375526 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRAWING IN DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus detects, as base coat information, a contour of a base coat region which is formed on a surface of a drawing object by applying a first ink used for a base coat on the surface of the drawing object with a drawing tool so as to fill in a design region surrounded with a contour of a design image, before the design image is printed on the surface of the drawing object, and adjusts a size of the design image and generates an adjusted design image which has a size sufficient to cover a whole area of the base coat region, based on the detected base coat information. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375529 | INKJET PRINTING METHOD FOR PRINTING ON NON-POROUSMEDIA - An inkjet printing method for printing on a non-porous media includes pre-coating a smooth non-porous media with toner resin particles in a half-tone pattern to create a patterned toner coated media; applying inkjet ink to said half-tone patterned toner coated media to provide an image on said half-tone patterned toner coated media; wherein a tone value of the half-tone pattern is a pre-determined function of an image-wise lay-down of the inkjet image generated by a data processing system; and fusing said image on said toner coated media. | 12-31-2015 |
20160001548 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method and system include a printhead configured to eject a fixer fluid. A controller is operatively connected to the printhead and configured to control the printhead so as to apply the fixer fluid to a print area in a pattern to form cells having a predetermined area without the fixer fluid. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001549 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FORMING APPARATUS WHICH FORMS CONCAVO-CONVEX STRUCTURE - A control apparatus configured to control a forming apparatus which forms concavo-convex structure by ejecting ink obtains concavo-convex data indicating the concavo-convex to be formed and divide the concavo-convex data into a plurality of pieces of data. The control apparatus controls a formation order, performed by the forming apparatus, of the concavo-convex portions each corresponding to the plurality of pieces of data divided by the dividing unit based on a feature amount of the concavo-convex indicated by the concavo-convex data. | 01-07-2016 |
20160009104 | RECORDING APPARATUS | 01-14-2016 |
20160016858 | CERAMIC INKJET INK FOR RELIEF EFFECT - Disclosed are compositions, such as inkjet inks or glazes, for jetting onto a ceramic substrate, and associated methods and systems. The compositions are configured to produce a blister relief effect, wherein the incorporation of inkjet technology provides precise control over the location and degree of blistering. The enhanced compositions are configured to form gas bubbles when exposed to the elevated temperatures of a firing cycle, wherein the formed gas is trapped within the glaze, causing an expansion or blistering of the glaze, which results in a raised relief. | 01-21-2016 |
20160031209 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - Disclosed is an inkjet printing apparatus with an inkjet printing unit performing printing onto web paper to be transported. The apparatus includes a drive roller transporting the web paper, a transportation velocity detector detecting a transportation velocity of the web paper, an encoder generating a timing reference signal of the printing by the printing unit in accordance with transportation of the web paper, the encoder being disposed in a transport roller, a printing correction data generator generating printing correction data in accordance with the transportation velocity and the timing reference signal so as to correspond to a time-dependent variation of the transport roller provided with the encoder; and an offset corrector correcting the printing of the inkjet printing unit to the web paper in accordance with the printing correction data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160039198 | TO CONTROL A PRINTER CARRIAGE - A method to control a printer carriage in which the printer carriage is controlled to move along a first axis at a first predetermined speed when a printhead, installed on the printer carriage, is ejecting printing fluid in a print zone. The printer carriage is moveable bidirectionally along the first axis in swaths to enable the printhead to print in the print zone. The printer carriage is also controlled to move along the first axis at a second predetermined speed, higher than the first predetermined speed, when the printhead is not ejecting printing fluid in the print zone. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039232 | PRINT MEDIUM ADVANCING DISTANCE ADJUSTMENT - A sweep speed is determined for sweeping a printer head of a printer across a print medium for printing a swath of an image on the print medium. A distance by which to advance the print medium is at least partially determined in accordance with the determined sweep speed and the print medium is advanced by the determined distance. | 02-11-2016 |
20160046121 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND HEAD UNIT - A liquid discharge apparatus includes: an modulation circuit that generates a modulated signal by pulse-modulating a source signal through self-oscillation; a transistor that amplifies the modulated signal to generate an amplified modulated signal; a low-pass filter that includes an inductor and a capacitor and smoothes the amplified modulated signal to generate a drive signal; a feedback circuit that allows the drive signal to return to the modulation circuit; a piezoelectric element that is displaced by application of the drive signal thereto; a cavity that is filled with a liquid inside and has an internal volume which changes when the piezoelectric element is displaced; and a nozzle that is provided to discharge the liquid inside the cavity in response to the change of the internal volume of the cavity. In this configuration, a self-resonant frequency of the capacitor is higher than a frequency of the self-oscillation. | 02-18-2016 |
20160046122 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND HEAD UNIT - A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a modulation circuit that generates a modulated signal by pulse-modulating a source signal through self-oscillation; a pair of transistors that include a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor and amplify the modulated signal to generate an amplified modulated signal; a low-pass filter that includes an inductor and a capacitor and smoothes the amplified modulated signal to generate a drive signal; a piezoelectric element that is displaced by application of the drive signal thereto; a cavity that is filled with a liquid inside and has an internal volume which changes when the piezoelectric element is displaced; and a nozzle that is provided to discharge the liquid inside the cavity in response to the change of the internal volume of the cavity. A shortest distance between the low-side transistor and the capacitor is shorter than a shortest distance between the high-side transistor and the capacitor. | 02-18-2016 |
20160067958 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET PRINTER - According to one embodiment, an ink jet head includes a discharge section, a control section that has a first receiving section, a setting section, a second receiving section, and a determination section, and a voltage applying section. The first receiving section receives setting data for setting a command code value corresponding to a command. The setting section sets the command code value with respect to the command based on the setting data received by the first receiving section. The second receiving section receives command data including the command code value. The determination section determines the command indicated by the command code value included in the command data that is received by the second receiving section based on the command code value set by the setting section. The voltage applying section applies a voltage to the actuator based on the command that is determined by the determination section. | 03-10-2016 |
20160082721 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material by ejecting ink; and an image processing unit that, in a case where information of a bar code image is included in image information for forming an image by the image forming unit, carries out a process of making a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting an edge portion in the bar code image smaller than a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting a portion other than the edge portion. | 03-24-2016 |
20160082726 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus equipped with an ink for ink jet recording, and a discharge unit that discharges a liquid droplet of the ink onto a recording medium, wherein the ink contains at least a colorant, a polymer particle, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, and has a dynamic surface tension after 1 msec of 32 mN/m or less, a dynamic surface tension after 1 sec of less than 30 mN/m, when the dynamic surface tension is measured by a maximum bubble pressure method, and has a variation width in the dynamic surface tension for the period from 1 msec after to 1 sec after of from 0.2 mN/m to 3.0 mN/m, a recording speed is from 10 m/min to 50 m/min. | 03-24-2016 |
20160089878 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus configured to discharge liquid, including: a liquid discharging head including a driving element; a driving device configured to drive the driving element; a power unit; a switch configured to perform switching of voltage supply; and a controller. When the power unit is switched on, the controller causes a power supply voltage of the power unit to be raised up to a first voltage while checking the power supply voltage; and the controller controls the switch to start the voltage supply from the power unit to the driving device while the power supply voltage is being raised up to the first voltage; and under a condition that the voltage supply is started while the power supply voltage is being raised up to the first voltage, the controller controls the driving device to apply the voltage to the driving element. | 03-31-2016 |
20160096361 | PRINTING AN AUTHENTICATION PATTERN WITH MULTI-DEFLECTION CONTINUOUS INKJET PRINTER - A method for printing an authentication pattern wherein, using a multi-deflection continuous inkjet printer, the pattern is printed on a substrate and only contains a small number of black pixels per raster. The resolution in the travel direction X of the substrate and in direction Y of the rasters is thereby largely improved compared with printing in dot-matrix mode. | 04-07-2016 |
20160101636 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus and Liquid Ejecting Method - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transporting unit which can transport a medium along a first direction; an ejecting unit which can eject liquid; a cutting unit which is provided on a downstream side in the first direction compared to the ejecting unit, and can cut the medium; and a control unit which can execute an ejecting operation in which the liquid is ejected onto the medium using the ejecting unit, and a cutting operation in which the medium is cut using the cutting unit, in which the control unit executes a post-cutting transport operation in which the medium is transported using the transporting unit between executing of the cutting operation and executing of the ejecting operation. | 04-14-2016 |
20160107438 | PRINTER OPERATION FOR EJECTION OF PURGING DROPLETS OF A PRINTING FLUID - Operation of a printer for printing an image is described herein. It is determined whether ejection of imaging droplets of a print fluid via a set of nozzles for printing an outstanding image portion is sufficient for preventing clogging of the set of nozzles. Upon determining that ejection of imaging droplets for printing the outstanding image portion is sufficient for preventing clogging of the set of nozzles, printing is performed by ejecting only imaging droplets of the print fluid via the set of nozzles. Upon determining that ejection of imaging droplets for printing the outstanding image portion is not sufficient for preventing clogging of the set of nozzles, a servicing procedure is to be executed of to eject purging droplets of the print fluid via the set of nozzles. | 04-21-2016 |
20160121603 | A METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTROSTATIC PRINTHEAD - A method of reducing and/or preventing the accumulation of concentrated ink at an ejection point of a printhead of an electrostatic inkjet printer when ink is not being ejected at the ejection point, the method comprising reversing the electric field at the ejection point of the printhead during a non-printing phase of operation to reduce the concentration of ink at the ejection point. | 05-05-2016 |
20160129689 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A fluid ejection device includes a fluid ejection unit that ejects a fluid and an ejection control unit that controls the ejection of the fluid. A fluid container accommodates the fluid supplied to the fluid ejection unit. A connection channel connects the fluid ejection unit and the fluid container. An opening and closing unit opens and closes the connection channel. A pressure adjustment unit controls the opening and closing unit and adjusts an inner pressure of the fluid container. The pressure adjustment unit increases the inner pressure higher than a predetermined pressure by instructing the opening and closing unit to close the connection channel and then instructing the opening and closing unit to open the connection channel after the inner pressure of the fluid container exceeds the predetermined pressure. The ejection control unit allows the fluid ejection unit to eject the fluid after the connection channel is opened. | 05-12-2016 |
20160129713 | DOT RECORDING APPARATUS, DOT RECORDING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RECORDING MEDIUM - A dot recording apparatus forms dots on a recording medium while relatively moving a recording head that includes a plurality of nozzles and the recording medium in a main scanning direction. The dot recording apparatus performs multi-pass recording in which dot recording on a main scanning line is completed by a plurality of main scanning passes. In dot recording in each main scanning pass, the dot recording is performed with a super cell region as a unit, the super cell region including one or more unit super cells formed as a dot group of one mass by some of the plurality of nozzles. In the same main scanning pass, the number of unit super cells recorded by m nozzles at an end portion of the recording head is smaller than the number of unit super cells recorded by m nozzles at a center portion of the recording head. | 05-12-2016 |
20160144615 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit that performs printing on a printing medium; a drive unit that causes the printing unit to move; a power supply unit that supplies power to the drive unit; a detection unit that detects the movement of the printing unit; and a controller that controls an initialization operation related to the printing unit based on a detection result of the detection unit. When power supply from the power supply unit to the drive unit is started, the controller acquires the detection result obtained when power is not supplied, performs the initialization operation in a case where a movement of the printing unit is detected in the detection result, and does not perform the initialization operation in a case where a movement of the printing unit is not detected in the detection result. | 05-26-2016 |
20160144618 | Constant Current Mode Firing Circuit For Thermal Inkjet-printing Nozzle - A firing circuit for a thermal inkjet-printing nozzle includes a heater resistor and a switch. The heater resistor heats ink to cause the ink to be ejected from the nozzle. The heater resistor has a first end and a second end, the second end connected to a ground. The switch controls activation of the heater resistor. The switch has a first end connected to a voltage source and a second end connected to the first end of the heater resistor. The switch operates in a constant current mode, such that an at least substantially constant current flows through the heater resistor upon activation. | 05-26-2016 |
20160144619 | CONSTANT CURRENT MODE FIRING CIRCUIT FOR THERMAL INKJET-PRINTING NOZZLE - A firing circuit for a thermal inkjet-printing nozzle includes a heater resistor and a switch. The heater resistor heats ink to cause the ink to be ejected from the nozzle. The heater resistor has a first end and a second end, the second end connected to a ground. The switch controls activation of the heater resistor. The switch has a first end connected to a voltage source and a second end connected to the first end of the heater resistor. The switch operates in a constant current mode, such that an at least substantially constant current flows through the heater resistor upon activation. | 05-26-2016 |
20160167364 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus | 06-16-2016 |
20160167373 | LIQUID DISCHARGE COMPONENT AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | 06-16-2016 |
20160167375 | DUAL-MODE INKJET NOZZLE OPERATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160167381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING IN AN AQUEOUS INKJET PRINTER | 06-16-2016 |
20160167397 | Object Forming Method, Object Forming Apparatus, And Nonvolatile Computer-Readable Recording Medium On Which Program Is Stored | 06-16-2016 |
20160185112 | Contact-Type Patterning Device - Provided herein is a contact patterning apparatus comprising: a substrate; a fluid supply unit configured to supply fluid towards the substrate; a voltage applying unit electrically connected to the fluid supply unit, and configured to make the fluid from the fluid supply unit connected between the substrate and the fluid supply unit by applying a voltage to a surface of the fluid; and a control unit configured to adjust a level of the voltage being applied to the fluid such that the fluid is patterned on the substrate in a dots form or a continuous line form, thereby stably patterning a continuous line of a fine line width regardless of the viscosity of the fluid being used and the patterning velocity. | 06-30-2016 |
20160185128 | LARGE CUBOID SHAPED OBJECT INKJET PRINTING - A method of UV curable inkjet printing on a cuboid shaped object includes the steps of jetting and UV curing an image of one or more UV curable inks on at least one vertical panel of the cuboid shaped object, and measuring the perpendicular distance from an active distance controller to the vertical plane, wherein the cuboid shaped object is selected from intermodal freight containers, crates, trucks, trailers, semi-trailers and boxcars. | 06-30-2016 |
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