摘要:
Example embodiments of a media handling accessory and method are illustrated and described, wherein the accessory includes a media input tray and a duplexing path.
摘要:
A method of finishing a plurality of sheets for a bound document. The method comprises accumulating a stack of sheets at a first position, scoring the sheets at the first position, and outputting the stack of scored sheets from the first position.
摘要:
A method of finishing a plurality of sheets for a bound document. The method comprises accumulating a stack of sheets at a first position, scoring the sheets at the first position, and outputting the stack of scored sheets from the first position.
摘要:
Example embodiments of a media handling system are shown and described in which gears are moved by a carrier into engagement with a gear that is operably coupled to a media driver.
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Techniques to compensate for random and systematic errors when measuring dot placement errors. Error accumulation due to scan axis irregularities during printhead calibration is minimized by swapping alignment block positions on the print medium from swath to swath. Print media advances during the calibration are minimized by the use of a moving reference instead of a constant reference; adjacent groups of nozzles are used to calibrate the following group. Only a small media advance is needed to print alignment blocks using adjacent nozzle groups one beside the other to be calibrated. To prevent paper slip accumulative errors when using moving references, the order of the groups of nozzles is swapped from one paper advance to the other. This randomizes for small, unavoidable slips when advancing the paper and prevents error accumulation. No further paper advances are used at all for the rest of the dot placement calibration (odd to even columns in a print-head, pen to pen correction and bidirectional correction). When calibrating X-axis position for a group of nozzles, a group of nozzles located at the same Y-axis coordinate is used, so that no paper advances are needed to print them one beside the other.
摘要:
A memory holds calibration data that are applied to compensate imperfections in a printhead-carriage guide rod, improving alignment between marks printed with different heads. Commonly heads and a carriage encoder are spaced from the rod at different distances, which interact with rod deviation to form dot-placement errors (DPE) that vary along the rod. The memory holds a single offset value, best a weighted composite of (a) an average of maximum and minimum deviations from straightness, and (b) median deviation, along the rod; or as the carriage moves on the rod the system steps or interpolates between successive offsets, or uses a continuous corrective-offset function. Separate offsets may be stored for adjacent-head pairs. The memory is best a digital unit holding just a few data bits, but may be a mechanical cam or linkage, compensation network or other analog circuit, polynomial coefficients, or codestrip with unequally spaced graduations. A custom strip is used with no further intervention. Calibration data in other memory types are used to modify interhead alignment, carriage-encoder signals, carriage position/speed, printhead-actuation timing or marking rapidity—or image-data position values, color-plane alignment, or pixel structure. Calibration may be prepared by measuring rod-straightness deviations, calculating expectable DPEs between mark pairs made by different heads, and from these finding the needed numbers for storage. Measuring may use conventional instruments but preferably the printer prints patterns (e.g. alternating marks made by two outboard heads) and measures them with an internal sensor. In existing systems—with interhead alignment set in a limited rod segment—the offset is found by comparing DPE ranges over the whole length vs. that segment.
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Absolute perceptual values are stored in the design lab, for maximum-density-tone cutoffs—preferably a maximum yellow-blue chrominance b* for yellow and minimum luminosity L* for other colorants. Automatic field operations in each printer then force the printer to subsequently print nominal full-saturation colorants so as to match the stored values. In addition to the stored cut-offs, black-and-white reference values measured in the printer are also used in linearizing printer response, for specific combinations of printing medium and printmode.
摘要:
A thermal transfer overcoating technology for reducing overcoat tags. Skewing the interface between a carrier ribbon to coated document at the peeling of the carrier from the coated document concentrates the forces at the interface to a smaller region of the document edge. Moreover, tensioning the document at the interface changes the forces at the interface from peeling type to tensile type.