摘要:
An inkjet printhead assembly includes at least one inkjet printhead having nozzles and firing resisters. The inkjet printhead assembly includes fire pulse generator circuitry responsive to a start fire signal to generate fire signals, each having a series of fire pulses. The fire pulse generator circuitry generates the fire signals by controlling the initiation and duration of the fire pulses. The fire pulses control timing and activation of electrical current through the firing resisters to thereby control ejection of ink drops from the nozzles. One embodiment of the inkjet printhead assembly includes multiple printheads disposed on a carrier to form a wide-array inkjet printhead assembly.
摘要:
Printhead and printer arrangements that provide digital delay between firing signals for a common firing interval. The delay achieves a controlled, staggered generation of firing signals that reduces EMI and instantaneous power supply draw and reduces or eliminates certain shielding requirements. Various arrangements are provided, including the use of edge triggered digital delay elements, staggered firing signal generation from firing signal control logic and the use of analog delay elements.
摘要:
A printing apparatus having a plurality of printing devices (e.g., printheads or firing chambers) that permits registration of the printing devices so as to achieve a uniform output of print ink. Logic that adjusts the length of a firing signal (which is related to drop size) and timing of a firing signal is disclosed.
摘要:
A printhead assembly includes at least one printhead having an internal power supply path, a power regulator providing an offset voltage from the internal power supply path voltage, and multiple primitives. Each primitive includes a group of nozzles, a corresponding group of firing resisters, and a corresponding group of switches. The switches are controllable to couple a selected firing resister between the internal power supply path and the offset voltage to thereby permit electrical current to pass through the selected firing resister to cause a corresponding selected nozzle to fire.
摘要:
A printhead assembly includes at least one printhead having a group of nozzles, a group of firing resisters corresponding to the group of nozzles, a programmable nozzle firing order controller configured to provide address generator control signals, and a nozzle address generator configured to respond to the address generator control signals to provide a nozzle address. The nozzle address controls a sequence of which firing resister has electrical current pass through it at a given time to thereby control a firing order of the nozzles.
摘要:
An inkjet printing system having multiple independent power supplies for providing firing energy to the ink ejection elements of one or more printheads. Different ones of the power supplies can be connected to different print cartridges each of which prints a different color ink; to different arrays of ink ejection elements within a single print cartridge, where each array prints a different color ink; or to different sections of the ink ejection element array of a single printhead for a single color ink. The output of each power supply is independently set to an appropriate voltage level for each different print cartridge, ink ejection element array, or section of an array.
摘要:
An integrated circuit chip with a low voltage differential signaling receiver (LVDS). The receiver has first and second input lines, and an output line. The first input line is connected to a first input node on the chip, and the second input line connected via a termination resistor on the chip to a second input node on the chip. The second input line is connected to a third input node on the chip. The chip may be installed on a substrate with one or more identical chips, with the first nodes of each chip connected to a first conductor on the substrate, and a second conductor on the substrate connected to the third node of each chip. A second node on one of the chips is connected to the first conductor to involve the resistor.
摘要:
A wide-array inkjet printhead assembly includes a carrier and N printheads and a module manager disposed on the carrier. The module manager receives a serial input data stream and corresponding input clock signal from a printer controller located external from the inkjet printhead assembly. The module manager demultiplexes the serial data stream into N serial output data streams. The module manager provides the N serial output data streams and N corresponding output clock signals based on the input clock signal to the N printheads.
摘要:
An inkjet printhead assembly includes at least one inkjet printhead having nozzles and firing resisters. The inkjet printhead assembly includes fire pulse generator circuitry responsive to a start fire signal to generate fire signals, each having a series of fire pulses. The fire pulse generator circuitry generates the fire signals by controlling the initiation and duration of the fire pulses. The fire pulses control timing and activation of electrical current through the firing resisters to thereby control ejection of ink drops from the nozzles. One embodiment of the inkjet printhead assembly includes multiple printheads disposed on a carrier to form a wide-array inkjet printhead assembly.
摘要:
An fluid ejection device includes nozzles and includes firing resistors which correspond to the nozzles. Each firing resistor and corresponding nozzle are located in zones on the fluid ejection device where each zone has at least one firing resistor and corresponding nozzle. Addressable select logic responsive to a select address couples fire pulses to the firing resistors in the zones so that each firing resistor in each zone is coupled to the same fire pulse.