摘要:
A battery-driven recording apparatus records a plurality of lines by recording-scan by using a recording head having a plurality of recording elements. A capacity of a battery is detected, and when the capacity of the battery is lowered, the number of lines to be recorded in one recording scan is reduced.
摘要:
A printer has an electric power supply controller which controls electric power supplied to an indicator indicating a state of the printer so as to prolong a driving time of the printer, which is driven by a battery. When the apparatus is set to an on-line state using an on-line key, electric power is initially supplied to an on-line LED, which indicates the apparatus is in the on-line state. Afterwards, when a predetermined time period has passed, the supply of electric power is cut off to the on-line LED, whereby the consumption of electric power supplied to the indicator can be minimized.
摘要:
A control signal is outputted from a CPU in a predetermined period to a one-shot circuit. An output signal of the one-shot circuit is maintained at a predetermined level, as far as the control signal is supplied to the one-shot circuit in the predetermined period. The output signal of the one-shot circuit is applied to a charging circuit for a battery. The charging circuit performs a charge operation for the battery while a predetermined level of the output signal of the one-shot circuit being kept on.
摘要:
A printing apparatus is capable of being driven by a battery for an extended period of time without using a battery having a large capacity, and the battery is capable of being charged while the occurrence of the memory effect is suppressed. Also provided is a method of charging the battery in this apparatus. Battery capacity is detected in the driving interval of a carriage motor and/or conveyance motor. When the battery capacity falls below a predetermined value, control is performed in such a manner that the driving intervals of the carriage motor and conveyance motor will not overlap. When charging of the battery is designated, the battery is discharged using a current load in the apparatus, after which the battery is charged.
摘要:
A control signal is outputted from a CPU in a predetermined period to a one-shot circuit. An output signal of the one-shot circuit is maintained at a predetermined level, as far as the control signal is supplied to the one-shot circuit in the predetermined period. The output signal of the one-shot circuit is applied to a charging circuit for a battery. The charging circuit performs a charge operation for the battery while a predetermined level of the output signal of the one-shot circuit being kept on.
摘要:
In the present invention, the minimum necessary consumption of ink can recover the channel miss state of the plurality of nozzles. The present invention provides a recovery processing method of an ink jet printing apparatus for forming images using a print head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink droplets. The method comprises a first step for detecting channel miss state of said plurality of nozzles, and a second step for executing at least one of different recovery processes depending on the channel miss states of said plurality of nozzles detected in the first step.
摘要:
A photodetector for a hologram-type optical head comprises, as a basic constitution, 6-piece-divided photodiodes. In order to prevent the photodetector from receiving the influence of wavelength variation of a laser diode, that is, spot deviations, one photodiode is divided into two small elements and the spot deviation is detected by utilizing the difference between outputs of the two small elements.
摘要:
Detection of whether or not liquid or a liquid droplet (ink) has passed is realized without contacting the passing liquid or liquid droplet, by providing a radiated-wave detector, arranged near the liquid or liquid droplet, for detecting an infrared ray radiated from the passing liquid or liquid droplet, and a detector for detecting variation of an output value of the radiated-wave detector. Furthermore, the variation of an output value detected by the detector is integrated to obtain the variation amount of the output values, thereby obtaining the amount of liquid or liquid droplet (ink) passed. With the use of the foregoing configuration, further provided is an ink-jet printing apparatus which can accurately determine whether or not ink has been discharged by a printhead and which can measure the amount of ink discharged without contacting the ink, and an ink detection method for the ink-jet printing apparatus.
摘要:
A printer and a digital camera are connected so as to be capable of communicating with each other. The printer transmits information indicative of its capabilities to the digital camera and the digital camera incorporates the transmitted printer capability information in a print settings menu. The capability information has information relating to the printer capabilities and information indicative of a default setting. The capabilities of the printer are incorporated in the print settings menu together with the default setting. A desired printing condition can be set selectively at the digital camera using the print settings menu in which the capability information has been incorporated.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus is provided which can detect ink in a print head highly precisely with a simple construction. The apparatus includes: a detection electrode to detect, through the ink on the ink jet print head board, a voltage change between print elements and drive elements which is produced as the print elements are driven; a periodical driver to drive the print elements at a predetermined drive frequency; a voltage detector to periodically detect an output voltage of the detection electrode at a timing corresponding to the drive frequency; and a state check device to check an ink ejection state of the ink jet print head according to a result of the detection by the voltage detector.