摘要:
An inkjet printing device for printing plots comprises a printhead (300), having a plurality of nozzles (310); a servicing unit (80) capable of applying recovery functions to said plurality of nozzles (310); a plurality of recovery functions (1940, 1980, 1990, 2060, 2040, 2020, 2195, 2185, 2160, 2177, 2167, 2165, 2280, 2270, 2265, 2250) for recovering said plurality of nozzles (310), wherein each recovery function of said plurality of recovery functions (1940, 1980, 1990, 2060, 2040, 2020, 2195, 2185, 2160, 2177, 2167, 2165, 2280, 2270, 2265, 2250) is associated to at least one cause of failure of a nozzle; detection means (1900) to detect the cause of failure of a nozzle based on how the failure evolved over time, and selecting means (1900), responsive to the cause of failure identified by the detection means, to select a recovery function from said plurality of recovery functions (1940, 1980, 1990, 2060, 2040, 2020, 2195, 2185, 2160, 2177, 2167, 2165, 2280, 2270, 2265, 2250), to be applied by said servicing unit (80). Said device further comprises means to select and execute at least one of said plurality of functions, responsive to the data stored in said memory means. A method of recovering a printhead mounted in an inkjet printing device; comprising the steps of defining a set of causes of failure for the printhead, checking if one or more nozzles (310) are failing, identifying the cause of failure of a failing nozzle within said set by observing how the failure evolved over time; based on the identified cause of failure, performing an appropriate function for recovering the failing nozzle (310).
摘要:
Techniques for calibrating a scanner (80) mounted on a scanning carriage (40) of an image forming device (20). The scanner array can also be used for print media border location.
摘要:
An optical sensor (80) for detecting the position of marks on a medium (84), wherein relative motion is provided between the optical sensor and the medium during an optical sensing operation. The optical sensor produces an electrical sensor signal (86A), and has a field of view at the media in a direction of the relative movement. The marks have a nominal dimension in the direction of the relative movement, and the field of view is larger than the nominal dimension. This produces a sensor signal with a clear and relatively sharp peak in response to scanning the media mark. A method of sensing locations of marks printed by ink-jet nozzles of a plurality of printheads mounted on a scanning carriage, which includes printing an alignment pattern (150) on a print medium, the alignment pattern comprising a set of target or reference marks printed using a subset of the nozzles on each of the plurality of printheads, and a set of color marks (170) printed using a subset of the nozzles from only one of the printheads.