Printer having precision ink drying capability and method of assembling the printer
    1.
    发明授权
    Printer having precision ink drying capability and method of assembling the printer 失效
    具有精密墨水干燥能力的打印机和组装打印机的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06508552B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-01-21

    申请号:US10044198

    申请日:2001-10-26

    IPC分类号: B41J201

    CPC分类号: B41J11/002

    摘要: A printer having precision ink drying capability and method of assembling the printer. The printer comprises a print head that is adapted to eject a plurality of ink drops through outlet orifices defined by the print head. The ink drops form a plurality of ink marks at a plurality of locations on a recording medium positioned opposite the outlet orifices. A plurality of heaters is disposed near the print head for heating the ink marks on the recording media in order to dry the ink marks. Drying the ink marks fixes the ink to the recording media. A plurality of sensors, that are disposed near the print head are also coupled to respective ones of the heaters for sensing the locations of the ink marks on the recording media. In addition, a controller interconnects each of the heaters to respective ones of the sensors for selectively energizing the heaters according to the locations of the ink marks sensed on the recording media by the sensors. Thus, the controller selectively informs the heaters of the locations of the ink marks on the recording media as the sensors sense the ink marks. In this manner, the heaters dry only the locations having ink marks with optimized energy output.

    摘要翻译: 具有精密油墨干燥能力的打印机和组装打印机的方法。 打印机包括打印头,其适于通过由打印头限定的出口孔喷射多个墨滴。 墨滴在与出口孔相对定位的记录介质上的多个位置处形成多个墨迹。 多个加热器设置在打印头附近,用于加热记录介质上的墨迹以便干燥墨迹。 干燥墨迹将墨水固定到记录介质上。 设置在打印头附近的多个传感器也耦合到相应的加热器,用于感测记录介质上墨标记的位置。 此外,控制器将每个加热器互连到相应的传感器,以根据由传感器感测在记录介质上的墨迹的位置来选择性地激励加热器。 因此,当传感器感测到墨水标记时,控制器选择性地通知加热器墨水记录在记录介质上的位置。 以这种方式,加热器仅干燥具有最佳能量输出的墨迹的位置。

    Adaptive depletion masks for improving print quality
    2.
    发明授权
    Adaptive depletion masks for improving print quality 有权
    自适应耗尽掩模,以提高打印质量

    公开(公告)号:US06454392B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-09-24

    申请号:US09774193

    申请日:2001-01-29

    IPC分类号: B41J221

    CPC分类号: H04N1/6022 H04N1/52

    摘要: A swath printing system and pixel depletion methods compensate for the effects of defective printing elements by adjusting the pixel depletion mask used during printing to minimize the amount and location of extraneous unprinted spaces caused by the defective printing elements. A printing element quality detector determines which printing elements are functional and which are defective. Based on this information, an image processor then selects or constructs a depletion mask having depleted pixel positions chosen to reduce the adverse effects on print quality caused by the defective printing elements, thus maintaining high image quality for the printed output. Pixel depletion is preferably performed at the image pixel level, but can alternatively be performed at the color plane pixel level.

    摘要翻译: 条纹打印系统和像素耗尽方法通过调整打印期间使用的像素消耗掩模来补偿有缺陷的打印元件的影响,以使由有缺陷的打印元件引起的外部未打印空间的数量和位置最小化。 印刷元件质量检测器确定哪些印刷元件是功能性的并且哪些是有缺陷的。 基于该信息,图像处理器然后选择或构建具有耗尽的像素位置的耗尽屏蔽,以减少由有缺陷的打印元件引起的对打印质量的不利影响,从而保持打印输出的高图像质量。 像素耗尽优选在图像像素级执行,但是也可以在彩色平面像素级进行。

    Adaptive control of second page printing to reduce smear in an inkjet
printer
    3.
    发明授权
    Adaptive control of second page printing to reduce smear in an inkjet printer 失效
    自适应控制第二页打印以减少喷墨打印机中的污迹

    公开(公告)号:US5489926A

    公开(公告)日:1996-02-06

    申请号:US56338

    申请日:1993-04-30

    申请人: Jason R. Arbeiter

    发明人: Jason R. Arbeiter

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2132 B41J11/002

    摘要: A high density graphics image can be printed without smearing by contact with a second page, without any unnecessary reduction of throughput. Throughput enhancement logic is inhibited during the printing of the second page for a variable delay related to the image density of the first page. The variable delay is calculated as a linear function of both the density (relative to a predetermined grid size) and the location if the densest portion of the first page, using coefficients which are different for different print modes. In one preferred embodiment, a maximum density is calculated by counting drops of ink in each of several overlapping grids, and the magnitude and location of the maximum density grid on a prior page is used to limit the throughput of a next page until a sufficient delay has elapsed to ensure that ink on the prior page will not be smeared when it comes into contact with the next page.

    摘要翻译: 可以通过与第二页的接触来印刷高密度图形图像,而不会不必要地减少生产量。 在与第一页的图像浓度相关的可变延迟的第二页的打印期间,吞吐量增强逻辑被禁止。 可变延迟被计算为使用对于不同打印模式不同的系数的密度(相对于预定网格大小)和位置(如果第一页的最密集部分)的线性函数。 在一个优选实施例中,通过计算几个重叠网格中的每一个中的墨滴数来计算最大密度,并且使用先前页面上的最大密度网格的大小和位置来限制下一页的吞吐量,直到足够的延迟 已经过去,以确保在与下一页接触时,前一页上的墨迹不会被弄脏。

    Densitometer for adaptive control of ink drying time for inkjet printer
    5.
    发明授权
    Densitometer for adaptive control of ink drying time for inkjet printer 失效
    用于喷墨打印机油墨干燥时间的自适应控制的密度计

    公开(公告)号:US5608439A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-04

    申请号:US511321

    申请日:1995-08-04

    摘要: To prevent rubbing of the printing mechanism against still wet ink on a buckled or curled sheet of an absorbent print medium after an inkjet printer has printed one swath of a high density image, printing of the next swath is delayed as a function of the maximum density of the ink drops deposited on the print medium for the printed swath(s). The required delay in printing the next swath is dependent on print mode and preferably uses a formula with empirically derived constants to allow sufficient time for the solvent in the ink to evaporate or otherwise disperse and to permit any buckling or curling of the print medium to stabilize. In one preferred embodiment, a maximum density is calculated by counting drops of ink in each of several overlapping grids, and the magnitude and location of the maximum density grid on a prior page is also used to limit the throughput of a next page until a sufficient delay has elapsed to ensure that ink on the prior page will not be smeared when it comes into contact with the next page.

    摘要翻译: 为了防止在喷墨打印机印刷高密度图像的一条之后,打印机构抵抗吸收性打印介质的弯曲或卷曲的片材上的静止湿的墨水的摩擦,下一个条纹的打印作为最大密度的函数被延迟 的墨滴沉积在打印介质上用于印刷的条纹。 打印下一个条纹所需的延迟取决于打印模式,优选使用具有经验派生常数的公式,以允许足够的时间使墨中的溶剂蒸发或以其他方式分散,并允许打印介质的任何弯曲或卷曲稳定 。 在一个优选实施例中,通过计数几个重叠网格中的每一个中的墨水滴来计算最大密度,并且先前页面上的最大密度网格的大小和位置也用于限制下一页的生产量直到足够 延迟已经过去,以确保在与下一页接触时,前一页上的墨迹不会被弄脏。

    Variable density under/overprinting maps for improving print quality

    公开(公告)号:US07046389B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-05-16

    申请号:US09826123

    申请日:2001-04-04

    IPC分类号: G06F15/00

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2139

    摘要: A swath printing system and under/overprinting method compensate for the effects of defective printing elements by adjusting the under/overprinting map used during printing regions of a uniform color, typically black, to minimize the adverse impact on print quality of unprinted “white space” caused by the defective printing elements. A printing element quality detector determines which printing elements are functional and which are defective. Based on this information, a print controller then selects or constructs an under/overprinting map having under/overprinting pixel positions chosen to reduce these adverse effects on print quality caused by the defective printing elements, thus maintaining high image quality for the printed output.

    Method for improving the quality of printing processes involving black pixel depletion
    9.
    发明授权
    Method for improving the quality of printing processes involving black pixel depletion 有权
    提高涉及黑色像素耗尽的印刷工艺质量的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06464334B2

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-15

    申请号:US09757363

    申请日:2001-01-08

    IPC分类号: B41J225

    CPC分类号: H04N1/6022 H04N1/52

    摘要: A method for improving the quality of printing processes involving black pixel depletion by printing composite ink in pixel spaces where a black pixel depletion process leaves unfilled pixel spaces. Black pixel depletion data are employed (for example, a depletion mask is inverted) to generate a composite printing mask which designates pixel spaces which are candidates for being filled in with a composite ink. In a preferred embodiment, edge pixels of black fill areas are excluded from the candidate pixels. In a preferred embodiment, the white pixel spaces are filled in by printing a plurality of different colored inks (e.g., cyan/magenta/yellow or cyan/magenta) within these unfilled pixel spaces. In a preferred embodiment, the composite printing mask additionally serves as an under/overprinting (UOP) map.

    摘要翻译: 一种通过在黑色像素耗尽处理留下未填充的像素空间的像素空间中印刷复合油墨来改善涉及黑色像素耗尽的打印处理的质量的方法。 使用黑色像素耗尽数据(例如,耗尽掩模被反转)以产生复合印刷掩模,其指定作为填充有复合油墨的候选物的像素空间。 在优选实施例中,从候选像素中排除黑色填充区域的边缘像素。 在优选实施例中,通过在这些未填充的像素空间内印刷多种不同颜色的油墨(例如,青色/品红/黄色或青色/品红色)来填充白色像素空间。 在优选实施例中,复合印刷掩模另外用作下/印刷(UOP)图。

    Deflection compensation for cartridge carriage with compliant walls
    10.
    发明授权
    Deflection compensation for cartridge carriage with compliant walls 失效
    带柔性壁的墨盒托架的偏转补偿

    公开(公告)号:US5504513A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-02

    申请号:US232909

    申请日:1994-04-25

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 B41J25/34

    摘要: An inkjet printer (10) has a movable carriage (12) supported above an ink-receiving medium by a rail (14) defining a carriage axis. A cartridge holder (16) is mounted on the carriage and having at least one cartridge compartment (18), each of the at least one compartment having a compliant compartment wall (82). Each compartment is providing with an opening at one end (19) of the carriage floor for receiving the snout (72) of an ink jet printer cartridge (20) on which is mounted a nozzle plate with more that one nozzle for depositing ink onto the ink-receiving medium. Each compartment is also provided with equalizing structure for maintaining the cartridge substantially perpendicular to the carriage axis when the compliant compartment wall is deflected by a spring at the middle of the compartment forcing two datum surfaces on the cartridge against front and rear supporting surfaces on the compartment wall. The equalizing structure preferably includes a second opening (21) at the other end of the floor.

    摘要翻译: 喷墨打印机(10)具有通过限定滑架轴线的轨道(14)支撑在油墨接收介质上的可移动滑架(12)。 盒支架(16)安装在滑架上并具有至少一个盒室(18),所述至少一个隔室中的每一个具有柔顺室壁(82)。 每个隔室在托架底板的一端(19)处设有开口,用于接纳喷墨打印机墨盒(20)的喷嘴(72),喷墨打印机墨盒(20)的喷嘴板上安装有多个喷嘴,用于将墨水沉积到 墨水接收介质。 每个隔间还设置有均衡结构,用于当柔性隔室壁由隔室中间的弹簧偏转时使得保持盒基本上垂直于托架轴线,从而迫使盒上的两个基准表面抵靠隔室上的前后支撑表面 壁。 平衡结构优选地包括位于地板另一端的第二开口(21)。