Printing apparatus, printing position adjustment value setting method and printing method
    31.
    发明授权
    Printing apparatus, printing position adjustment value setting method and printing method 有权
    打印装置,打印位置调整值设定方法和打印方法

    公开(公告)号:US07458655B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-02

    申请号:US10929450

    申请日:2004-08-31

    IPC分类号: B41J29/393

    CPC分类号: B41J25/308

    摘要: An adjustment value applicable to the adjustment of a printing position is obtainable by reading a printing position adjustment pattern printed on a printing medium without requiring the manual operation by the operator. Furthermore, the printing position can be optimally adjusted by accurately scanning the printing position adjustment pattern. For this purpose, an optical sensor is located in the vicinity of the printing head, and the optical sensor is situated near a predetermined position side. The predetermined position side is a pinch roller side where a large restrictive force acts to the printing medium with the printing position adjustment pattern printed thereon.

    摘要翻译: 可以通过读取打印在打印介质上的打印位置调整图案而不需要操作者的手动操作来获得适用于打印位置的调整的调整值。 此外,可以通过精确地扫描打印位置调整图案来最佳地调整打印位置。 为此,光学传感器位于打印头附近,光学传感器位于预定位置附近。 预定位置侧是在其上印刷有打印位置调整图案的情况下,大的限制力作用于打印介质的夹送辊侧。

    Printing apparatus, method of setting print position adjustment value, and printing method
    32.
    发明授权
    Printing apparatus, method of setting print position adjustment value, and printing method 失效
    打印装置,设定打印位置调整值的方法以及打印方法

    公开(公告)号:US07396099B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-07-08

    申请号:US10929685

    申请日:2004-08-31

    IPC分类号: B41J29/393 B41J29/38 B41J2/21

    CPC分类号: B41J29/393

    摘要: If print agents used are detected by an optical sensor at different sensitivities, the present invention enables the easy setting of adjustment values for print positions resulting from these print agents. To accomplish this object, for example, the present invention substitutes and sets adjustment values for print positions resulting from cyan, light cyan, or black ink, corresponding to a high detection sensitivity, for adjustment values for print positions resulting from a light magenta, yellow, or magenta ink, corresponding to a low detection sensitivity.

    摘要翻译: 如果由不同灵敏度的光学传感器检测到使用的打印剂,则本发明能够容易地设定由这些打印剂产生的打印位置的调节值。 为了实现该目的,例如,本发明将由青色,浅青色或黑色墨水产生的打印位置的调整值替换为对应于高检测灵敏度的调色值,用于由浅品红色,黄色 或品红色墨水,对应于低检测灵敏度。

    Ink jet recording apparatus and remaining ink amount detecting method
    33.
    发明申请
    Ink jet recording apparatus and remaining ink amount detecting method 有权
    喷墨记录装置和剩余墨量检测方法

    公开(公告)号:US20070008351A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-01-11

    申请号:US11515712

    申请日:2006-09-06

    IPC分类号: B41J2/195

    摘要: Even if an error occurred in a result of the detection by an optical detecting mechanism for optically detecting whether or not a remaining amount of ink in an ink tank is equal to or less than a predetermined amount, a correct situation of the remaining ink amount in the ink tank can be detected. A detecting method has a first discriminating step of discriminating whether or not a remaining ink amount in the ink tank is equal to or less than a predetermined amount by using an optical sensor and a second discriminating step of discriminating whether or not the remaining ink amount in the ink tank is equal to or less than the predetermined amount on the basis of information regarding an amount of ink consumed in the ink tank. If the absence of ink is determined in either the first or second discriminating step, information showing the absence of ink is notified.

    摘要翻译: 即使在通过光学检测机构检测墨水盒中的墨水剩余量是否等于或小于预定量的光学检测机构的检测结果发生错误的情况下,将墨水剩余量的正确情况 可以检测墨水盒。 一种检测方法具有通过使用光学传感器和第二识别步骤来鉴别墨水罐中的剩余墨水量是否等于或小于预定量的第一鉴别步骤, 基于关于在墨盒中消耗的墨水量的信息,墨水罐等于或小于预定量。 如果在第一或第二鉴别步骤中确定不存在墨水,则通知显示不存在墨水的信息。

    Printing apparatus
    34.
    发明申请
    Printing apparatus 失效
    印刷装置

    公开(公告)号:US20060187247A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-24

    申请号:US11350877

    申请日:2006-02-10

    IPC分类号: B41J29/38

    摘要: For a serial color ink jet printing apparatus that forms an image using a symmetric printing head that ejects large dots and small dots, the configuration of a printing head is provided for suppressing, to the extent possible, a cyclic fluctuation in the main scanning direction. According to the present invention, individual nozzle arrays are arranged so that two nozzle arrays, i.e., a cyan nozzle array c1 and a magenta nozzle array m1, that are located nearer each other, form dots on adjacent scan lines. With this arrangement, a high quality image, having neither an uneven density nor an uneven color, can be formed when a printing head is inclined, or when a cyclic shift in printing positions occurs, depending on the position of the main scanning direction.

    摘要翻译: 对于使用喷射大点和小点的对称打印头形成图像的串行彩色喷墨打印装置,提供打印头的构造,以尽可能地抑制主扫描方向上的循环波动。 根据本发明,单独的喷嘴阵列被布置成使得位于彼此更靠近的两个喷嘴阵列,即青色喷嘴阵列c 1和品红色喷嘴阵列m 1在相邻的扫描线上形成点。 利用这种布置,当打印头倾斜时,或者当根据主扫描方向的位置发生打印位置的循环移位时,可以形成既不密度也不均匀颜色的高质量图像。

    Printing apparatus and preliminary discharge control method
    35.
    发明授权
    Printing apparatus and preliminary discharge control method 失效
    印刷装置及初步排放控制方法

    公开(公告)号:US07011386B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-03-14

    申请号:US10636687

    申请日:2003-08-08

    IPC分类号: B14J2/165

    摘要: A printing apparatus and a preliminary discharge control method are capable of efficient preliminary discharge control even in a case where a time interval to assure normal printing is equal or nearly equal to the period of one print scanning of an inkjet printhead. In the method, in an inkjet printhead which performs printing by discharging ink from plural print elements while being reciprocate-scanned by a carriage, the number of ink dischargings from each of the plural print elements is counted during print scanning by reciprocate scanning. It is determined whether or not the counted number of ink dischargings from each of the plural print elements is equal to or greater than a predetermined number at predetermined intervals. In accordance with the result of determination, a printable period is updated, and the updated printable period is compared with time necessary for the next print scanning upon completion of one print scanning by reciprocate scanning. Then, in accordance with the result of comparison, preliminary discharge is performed from the inkjet printhead.

    摘要翻译: 即使在确保正常打印的时间间隔等于或几乎等于喷墨打印头的一次打印扫描的周期的情况下,打印设备和初步排放控制方法也能够进行有效的初步排放控制。 在该方法中,在通过由滑架进行往复扫描而从多个打印元件排出油墨进行打印的喷墨打印头中,通过往复扫描来进行打印扫描期间的多个打印元件中的每一个的排墨次数。 确定来自多个打印元件中的每一个的计数的墨水排出量是否以预定间隔等于或大于预定数量。 根据确定的结果,更新可打印周期,并且将更新的可打印周期与通过往复扫描完成一次打印扫描后的下次打印扫描所需的时间进行比较。 然后,根据比较结果,从喷墨打印头进行预喷射。

    Ink-jet printing method, ink-jet printing apparatus, and program
    37.
    发明授权
    Ink-jet printing method, ink-jet printing apparatus, and program 失效
    喷墨打印方法,喷墨打印装置和程序

    公开(公告)号:US06966621B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-11-22

    申请号:US10677370

    申请日:2003-10-03

    摘要: A controller generates printing data to be printed by the printing nozzles of at least first and second adjacent printing nozzle arrays out of a plurality of printing nozzle arrays on the basis of tone information of image data to be printed. In particular, the controller generates printing data to be printed by each of the first and second printing nozzle arrays in the range in which the influence of an air flow generated along with ink discharge from the first and second printing nozzle arrays is admissible. Printing by the first and second printing nozzle arrays of the printhead is controlled on the basis of the generated printing data.

    摘要翻译: 控制器根据要打印的图像数据的色调信息,生成由多个打印喷嘴阵列中的至少第一和第二相邻打印喷嘴阵列的打印喷嘴打印的打印数据。 特别地,控制器在第一和第二打印喷嘴阵列中的每一个产生打印数据,该打印数据在与来自第一和第二打印喷嘴阵列的墨喷射产生的空气流的影响是可接受的范围内。 基于生成的打印数据来控制打印头的第一和第二打印喷嘴阵列的打印。

    Printing apparatus, printing method, and program
    38.
    发明申请
    Printing apparatus, printing method, and program 有权
    印刷装置,印刷方法和程序

    公开(公告)号:US20050024401A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-03

    申请号:US10896073

    申请日:2004-07-22

    CPC分类号: B41J3/60 B41J2/2107

    摘要: According to the present invention, if an image is printed on both sides of a printing medium, the possibility of rubbing ink off from the printing medium is minimized to inhibit contamination of the printing medium and the interior of the printing apparatus, while maintaining the print grade of the image. Thus, if a double side print mode is executed in which an image is printed on both sides of the printing medium, then, for a particular image part, a ratio of an amount of black pigment ink used to an amount of black dye ink used is set so as to limit the amount of black pigment ink used and to compensate for a decrease in print density with the limited amount of the black pigment ink used.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明,如果在打印介质的两面上打印图像,则可以最大程度地减少从打印介质上摩擦墨水的可能性,从而抑制打印介质和打印设备内部的污染,同时保持打印 等级的图像。 因此,如果在打印介质的两面上执行图像打印的双面打印模式,则对于特定图像部分,使用黑色颜料墨水的量与所用的黑色染料墨量的比例 被设定为限制使用的黑色颜料墨水的量,并且使用有限量的黑色颜料墨水补偿印刷密度的降低。

    Ink jet print apparatus, ink jet printing method, program, and computer-readable storage medium that stores the program

    公开(公告)号:US06669331B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-30

    申请号:US10127471

    申请日:2002-04-23

    IPC分类号: B41J221

    CPC分类号: B41J19/142

    摘要: A print apparatus that, without significantly reducing an overall printing speed, allows a reduction in uneven densities due to the discharge time difference between black ink and color inks, which occur particularly at both ends in a scanning range and which are caused by the printing by bidirectional scanning of print heads, and enables high image-quality printing to be realized. In this print apparatus, one band is divided into plural areas in a main scanning direction, the dot numbers of black ink and color ink imparted to respective areas are counted. If there are any areas where the dot numbers of both black and color exceed respective threshold values, the area number is counted, and if the number exceeds a predetermined number, the print mode is switched from bidirectional printing to a unidirectional one, upon determining that there is a high probability of occurrence of the above-described uneven densities.

    Locating method of an optical sensor, an adjustment method of dot printing position using the optical sensor, and a printing apparatus
    40.
    发明授权
    Locating method of an optical sensor, an adjustment method of dot printing position using the optical sensor, and a printing apparatus 有权
    光学传感器的定位方法,使用光学传感器的点印刷位置的调整方法以及打印装置

    公开(公告)号:US06547360B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-15

    申请号:US09425989

    申请日:1999-10-25

    IPC分类号: B41J29393

    摘要: There is provided a printing registration method for stably performing printing registration in bi-directional scanning by a print head in a printing apparatus or printing registration between a plurality of print heads with high accuracy. In complementary printing by the bi-directional scanning by the head, a plurality of patterns are printed while printing starting timings are shifted by predetermined quantities with respect to reference dots (dots formed by forward scanning). In the pattern, an area factor defined by the dots formed by the printing is varied according to the shifting. The plurality of patterns are optically read as an average density. The timing corresponding to a point where the read average density is highest can be determined as a printing registration condition. Furthermore, an optical sensor used for the reading is located at a position where an S/N ratio is stable with respect to fluctuations in distance from the object to be read, thus achieving stable reading.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于在打印装置中的打印头进行双向扫描的稳定执行打印登记或者在多个打印头之间以高精度进行打印配准的打印登记方法。 在通过头部的双向扫描的互补打印中,打印开始定时相对于参考点(由正向扫描形成的点)偏移了预定量的多个图案。 在该图案中,由打印形成的点限定的面积因子根据偏移而变化。 多个图案被光学读取为平均密度。 可以将对应于读取平均密度最高的点的定时确定为打印注册条件。 此外,用于读取的光学传感器位于相对于要读取的物体的距离的波动的S / N比稳定的位置,从而实现稳定的读取。