摘要:
An ink jet printer system includes a partially redundant page-wide array of moveable ink jet print heads in a print zone, means outside of the print zone for servicing the print heads, and a transfer system, configured to selectively move a redundant portion of the array of print heads out of the print zone for servicing while printing with a remainder of the array.
摘要:
Described is a method for incremental printing with an inkjet swath printer by depositing multiple drops of an ink from a printhead in each column of an image, in each scanning pass of the printhead over a print medium by obtaining the image, analyzing the image to determine which drops of ink will define leading and trailing edges in each row of the image element with respect to a scanning direction, removing at least one drop of ink preceding the drop defining the trailing edges in each of the rows, removing at least one drop of ink after the drop defining the leading edges in each of the rows and depositing the remaining drops of the ink on the medium while passing the printhead over the media in the scanning direction. Also described is a method of printing with an inkjet printing system scanning over a print medium by providing a printhead having a supply of ink and a plurality of ink ejection chambers for ejecting ink onto the print medium, each of the ink ejection chambers depositing the ink onto a corresponding row, the ink ejection chambers ejecting ink drops in a range of frequencies between a base firing frequency and a maximum firing frequency, obtaining an image, analyzing the image to determine which drops of ink will define leading and trailing edges in each row of the image element with respect to a scanning direction, ejecting the drops of ink defining the leading trailing edges in each of the rows at an ejection frequency less than the maximum frequency and depositing the remaining drops of the ink on the medium while passing the printhead over the media in the scanning direction.
摘要:
Periodic inking artifacts are reduced by randomness introduced into an image-processing stage. This goes beyond providing a fixed pattern earlier derived through random processing; rather the system literally introduces randomness or at least pseudorandomness into the image-processing stage. Preferably a superpixel is selected, essentially at random, from a plurality of superpixels—at least for points with an intermediate tonal level, which is the part of the tonal range where dot-placement error is most conspicuous. If image scaling or some other reason for using superpixels (and starting with a coarse grid) is not present, the randomness-introduction approach preferably includes preparing the image using a pixel grid that is coarser than the available printer resolution. The selected superpixel is applied at the coarser grid to define a set of individual pixels at printer resolution. A major preference relates to printing in sequential printing passes: a printmasking stage, downstream and distinct from the image-processing stage, is used to establish temporal assignments of inking into the plural passes. Because most or many printing systems already employ superpixels anyway for various purposes, the simple tactic of selecting superpixels randomly achieves major gains in artifact reduction but adds little complexity, apparatus, processing time or cost.
摘要:
Inks used in ink-jet printing comprise a vehicle and a dye. The dye is typically an anionic dye, associated with undesirable cations such as sodium or potassium cations. Several properties of such inks are improved by replacing at least about one-fourth of such cations on the anionic dye with tetramethylammonium cations.
摘要:
A composition includes an alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent or an alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent. The alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 1.0 pounds per ton to about 4.0 pounds per ton. The alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 2.0 pounds per ton to about 10.0 pounds per ton. A metallic salt is also incorporated in the composition.
摘要:
Inkjet imaging methods, imaging methods and hard imaging devices are described. According to one embodiment, an imaging method includes accessing image data of an image to be formed; using the image data, controlling a print device to eject a plurality of droplets of a liquid marking agent corresponding to the image to be formed, wherein the droplets of the liquid marking agent individually comprise a plurality of ink particles; using the print device, ejecting the droplets of the liquid marking agent; after the ejecting, receiving the droplets of the liquid marking agent upon a transfer member; and after the receiving, transferring the ink particles of the droplets from the transfer member to media to form a hard version of the image using the media.
摘要:
A media print system includes a first print unit, a second print unit, at least one actuator configured to move the first unit and the second unit relative to one another and a controller configured to generate control signals. The at least one actuator positions the first unit and the second unit at the first and second positions, respectively, during a first longitudinal pass of a medium and positions the first unit at a third position during a second longitudinal pass of the medium in response to the control signals.
摘要:
A composition includes an alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent or an alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent. The alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 1.0 pounds per ton to about 4.0 pounds per ton. The alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 2.0 pounds per ton to about 10.0 pounds per ton. A metallic salt is also incorporated in the composition.