Abstract:
A sheet retention device is provided for retaining at least one sheet. The sheet retention device comprises a sheet supporting means for supporting at least a first portion of the sheet, a rotatable guiding means configured to enclose a second portion of the sheet, an urging means and a drive means for in operation controllably rotating the rotatable guiding means. The rotatable guiding means comprises a passageway arranged through the rotatable guiding means, which passageway is configured to enclose the second portion of the sheet, the passageway having an entrance portion at one side of an outer surface of the rotatable guiding means and an exit portion at another side of an outer surface of the rotatable guiding means. Said exit portion is arranged in the passageway at an opposite end with respect to the entrance portion. The rotatable guiding means comprises a sheet deflecting surface, wherein in operation during at least part of a revolution of the rotatable guiding means a portion of the sheet is guided by the sheet deflecting surface into a sheet retaining position. The sheet retaining position is defined by the outer surface of the rotatable guiding means and the urging means. The urging means are urged against a portion of the outer surface of the rotatable guiding means in said sheet retaining position.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a hot melt inkjet ink composition, the hot melt inkjet ink composition being solid at room temperature and liquid at an elevated temperature, the hot melt inkjet ink composition comprising an acidic resin and a crystalline material. The invention relates further to the use of the hot melt inkjet ink composition as an etch resist and to a process for preparing an electrically conductive circuit on a support layer using the hot melt inkjet ink composition.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for tracing a digital object on a user interface screen of an electronic system includes representing the digital object on the user interface screen by means of a first digital image, selecting the first digital image, starting a user action on the corresponding digital object, replacing the first digital image by a second digital image representing the interactive object during a predetermined time period, applying the user action on the digital object after the predetermined time period has lapsed, and removing the second digital image from the user interface screen after the predetermined time period has lapsed, wherein the second digital image is selectable in order to cancel the started user action of the digital object and to let emerge the first digital image again on the user interface screen. A reproduction apparatus includes a user interface screen and a control unit for executing the method.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a hot melt cleaning composition comprising a hot melt vehicle composition and a hot melt solvent. The invention further relates to a kit of parts, comprising a unit comprising a hot melt cleaning composition and comprising at least one unit comprising a hot melt ink composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a hot melt cleaning composition. The invention further relates to a method of cleaning a print head using a hot melt cleaning composition. The invention also relates to a use of a hot melt cleaning composition for cleaning print heads.
Abstract:
A print head comprises a pressure chamber in fluid communication with a nozzle and an actuator structure in operative communication with the pressure chamber for generating a pressure wave in the pressure chamber. The actuator structure comprises a membrane, wherein a first surface of the membrane forms a flexible wall of the pressure chamber and a piezo actuator, wherein the piezo actuator is arranged on a second surface of the membrane, the second surface being opposite of the first surface, such that the membrane is deformed at the position of the piezo actuator upon actuation of the piezo actuator. In the print head, the membrane is pivotably clamped between a first structure layer and a second structure layer such that the membrane pivots at the location of clamping upon deformation of the membrane due to actuation of the piezo actuator.
Abstract:
An ink jet print head, having a pressure generation chamber arranged for being in communication with a print head nozzle and an actuator membrane for delimiting the pressure generation chamber. The actuator membrane has a substrate and a piezoelectric actuator provided on the substrate, said piezoelectric actuator having a lower electrode, an upper electrode and at least one piezoelectric layer arranged between the lower electrode and the upper electrode; the substrate and the upper electrode are arranged on opposite sides of the piezoelectric layer, and the upper electrode has a Titanium-Tungsten film.
Abstract:
A method includes deriving from print data a first intended position of a first dot to be printed, determining a first printing element from a plurality of printing elements suitable for printing the first dot at the first intended position, printing the first dot with the first printing element at a first location on the substrate, deriving from the print data a second intended position of a second dot to be printed, retrieving a tolerated deviation of a distance between the first intended position and the second intended position, determining a second printing element from the plurality of printing elements suitable for printing the second dot based on the tolerated deviation, and printing the second dot with the second printing element at a second location on the substrate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for maintaining and/or restoring the jetting stability in a jetting device, the jetting comprising fluid chamber body having arranged therein an orifice, the jetting device being configured to comprise a quantity of an electrically conductive fluid. The jetting device comprises actuation means, comprising a magnetic field generating means and an electrical current generating means for, in operation, applying an actuation pulse to the electrically conductive fluid. The method for maintaining and/or restoring the jetting stability comprises applying an maintenance pulse to at least a part of the electrically conductive fluid. The invention further relates to a jetting device, employing the described method.
Abstract:
A reproduction apparatus for printing a digital image includes a control unit and a print engine. The digital image is constituted of pixels, each having assigned a pixel value. The print engine includes print elements for ejecting an amount of marking material on a receiving material according to a pixel value. The reproduction apparatus includes a detector for detecting a failing print element and the control unit includes a derivation unit for deriving, before printing of the digital image for a print element, at least one array of pixel values to be printed by at least one other print element, upon detection of a failing of the print element by the detector. A merging unit is configured to merge at least one of the at least one array of pixel values with the digital image, upon detection of a failing print element, for creating a corrected digital image.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a temperature of a jetting device, the jetting device being configured to jet droplets of a fluid at a high temperature, the fluid comprising an electrically conductive fluid, wherein at least a part of the fluid is positioned in a magnetic field, includes heating the jetting device to an operating temperature, being defined as the temperature suitable for jetting droplets, using a heat jetting droplets by providing an electrical actuation current in the part of the fluid positioned in the magnetic field, thereby generating a force in the conductive fluid; determining upcoming jetting conditions, the upcoming jetting conditions being defined as the jetting conditions corresponding to droplets to be jetted at a time (t1) which is later than the present time (t0); determining settings for the heat based on the determined upcoming jetting conditions; controlling the heating of the jetting device using the heat in accordance with the determined settings.