Fast building of masks for use in incremental printing
    2.
    发明授权
    Fast building of masks for use in incremental printing 有权
    快速构建面罩,用于增量打印

    公开(公告)号:US06862109B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-01

    申请号:US10373219

    申请日:2003-02-24

    IPC分类号: G06K15/10 G06K15/00

    CPC分类号: G06K15/107

    摘要: A program with complete conditions for a usable mask yields a unitary mask, each try. One mask pattern is used throughout an image, but may be “tiled”. Preferably the program, for given mask position, expresses favorability of several candidate pass numbers as a “neighborhood constraint” in the form of a weight; distills the weights into one weight for each pass number; based on that, chooses a number for the position; and iterates for all positions. Many preferences are very useful, e. g. automatically balancing randomness vs. determinism, and several generalized relative notations. Another invention facet uses an input text file of mask constraints; a program reads constraints from the file, applies them, forms a mask and stores/uses it. Another reprocesses a mask for best image quality, fixing its own imperfections of first-round mask forming.

    摘要翻译: 具有完整条件的程序可用的掩模产生一个单一的面具,每个尝试。 在整个图像中使用一个掩模图案,但可以“平铺”。 优选地,对于给定的掩模位置,程序表示几种候选通过数的有利性,作为权重形式的“邻域约束”; 将每个通行证数量的重量分配给一个重量; 基于此,选择一个数字的位置; 并迭代所有职位。 许多偏好非常有用,例如 G。 自动平衡随机性与决定论,以及几种广义相对符号。 另一个发明方面使用掩码约束的输入文本文件; 一个程序从文件读取约束,应用它们,形成一个掩码并存储/使用它。 另一个重新处理一个面具,以获得最佳的图像质量,固定自己的第一轮面具成型的缺陷。

    Bidirectional color printing using multipass printmodes with at least
partially swath-aligned inkjet printheads
    3.
    发明授权
    Bidirectional color printing using multipass printmodes with at least partially swath-aligned inkjet printheads 失效
    使用带有至少部分条带对齐喷墨打印头的多页打印模式的双向彩色打印

    公开(公告)号:US6142605A

    公开(公告)日:2000-11-07

    申请号:US811875

    申请日:1997-03-04

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2132 B41J19/142

    摘要: The method enables swath-type bidirectional printing without hue shift, using plural scanning multiple-inkjet printheads (holding inks of different colors respectively) and printing-medium advance orthogonal to the scan axis. Inking is calculated and implemented for each position in the grid independently. Images appear as a pixel grid of columns and rows both spaced--i.e. in both the scan and media-advance directions--more finely than 300 dpi. In one aspect of the invention, both these resolutions are the same, and equal to the nozzle spacing. At least some of the nozzles are overlapping and respectively aligned along the advance axis, to be capable of printing on adjacent rows during a single pass. In another aspect of the invention, the nozzle arrays only partially overlap, so as to use significantly fewer than the total number of nozzles in each array. As to this second aspect of the invention, in each nozzle array the method uses a number of nozzles that is fewer than the total nozzle complement by a certain number that is preferably at least fifteen, more preferably thirty, and ideally roughly sixty nozzles.

    摘要翻译: 该方法能够使用多个扫描多喷墨打印头(分别保持不同颜色的墨水)和与扫描轴正交的打印介质,而不进行色相偏移的条带型双向打印。 对网格中的每个位置进行独立计算和实施。 图像显示为列和行的像素网格,两者间隔开。 在扫描和媒体推进方向 - 比300 dpi更精细。 在本发明的一个方面,这两个分辨率都相同,并且等于喷嘴间距。 至少一些喷嘴重叠并且沿着前进轴线分别对准,以便能够在单次通过期间在相邻行上打印。 在本发明的另一方面,喷嘴阵列仅部分重叠,以便使用明显少于每个阵列中喷嘴总数。 对于本发明的第二方面,在每个喷嘴阵列中,该方法使用少于总喷嘴补充数量的多个喷嘴,其数量优选为至少十五个,更优选为三十个,理想地为大约六十个喷嘴。

    Optimal-size and nozzle-modulated printmasks for use in incremental printing
    4.
    发明授权
    Optimal-size and nozzle-modulated printmasks for use in incremental printing 失效
    用于增量打印的最佳尺寸和喷嘴调制的打印掩码

    公开(公告)号:US06788432B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-07

    申请号:US09150323

    申请日:1998-09-09

    IPC分类号: B41J201

    摘要: A shingle mask has width mismatched to maximum-eye-sensitivity spatial frequency at reading distance or closer, so the mask is tiled with minimal patterning. A second invention facet forms a grid of optimum width—it corresponds to maximum sensitivity only if seen from much farther than reading distance. A third facet forms a 2D mask with width 0.25 to 2 inches, better 0.375 to 1.5, ideally 0.5 to 1 (progressively further from maximum sensitivity; as further increases help little, this enables bandfree printing without very large masks). A fourth facet optimizes width in terms of distance in the image, for aesthetics, speed and economy. Another facet automatically forms a mask that time-varies nozzle-use modulation. Another prints nontext images by a multinozzle pen, modulating use; still others by plural pens each with a multinozzle array, refraining from use of certain nozzles e.g. to simulate dynamic pen staggering.

    摘要翻译: 在读取距离或更近距离处,木瓦掩模具有与最大眼睛敏感度的空间频率的宽度不匹配,因此掩模以最小的图案进行平铺。 第二个发明小面形成最佳宽度的网格 - 只有从阅读距离远得多,才对应于最大灵敏度。 第三面形成宽度为0.25至2英寸,更好为0.375至1.5,理想地为0.5至1(逐渐从最大灵敏度进一步增加的2D掩模);进一步增加帮助很少,这使得无带打印无需非常大的掩模)。 第四个方面优化了图像中的距离宽度,为美观,速度和经济。 另一个方面自动形成一个时间变化喷嘴使用调制的面罩。 另一个通过多支柱笔打印非文本图像,调制使用; 还有其他的多个笔,每个都有多喷嘴阵列,不使用某些喷嘴,例如 模拟动态笔交错。

    Multipass inkjet printmodes with randomized dot placement, to minimize
patterning and liquid loading
    5.
    发明授权
    Multipass inkjet printmodes with randomized dot placement, to minimize patterning and liquid loading 失效
    具有随机点阵放置的多点喷墨打印模式,以最小化图案和液体负载

    公开(公告)号:US6019454A

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-01

    申请号:US810053

    申请日:1997-03-04

    CPC分类号: G06K15/107 G06K2215/0094

    摘要: Color inkdrops form on a print medium in at least partly overlapping swaths. Apparatus holds and provides--or generates in real time--data defining a generally randomized printmask, which is applied to control working parts of an inkjet printer. Preferably the apparatus establishes an elemental pixel subgrid of rows and columns, used in determining inking patterns essentially throughout the image; and stores in the pixel subgrid a previously generated, generally randomized selection of pixel columns for printing of an inkdrop, in each subgrid pixel row--and conversely an analogous selection of pixel rows for printing a drop in each subgrid pixel column. Also preferably the generally randomized selection is subjected to location rules as to pixels above and to at least one side of each pixel. Numerous specific masks are specified as pass-number patterns, including an eight-by-eight "knight" array, two sixteen-by-five arrays, a sixteen-by-ten array, and several four-by-four arrays. Another form of the invention includes apparatus for minimizing directional and other patterns in a printed color image, and coalescence and puddling of ink. A method of creating and using a printmask includes generating, as a row-and-column array, a series of essentially randomized numbers for use in defining rows or columns, or both, of a pixel subgrid; and storing the array in a tangible medium.

    摘要翻译: 在至少部分重叠的条带上的打印介质上形成彩色墨滴。 设备保存并提供或者实时地产生 - 定义通常随机化的打印掩模的数据,其被应用于控制喷墨打印机的工作部件。 优选地,装置建立行和列的元素像素亚格栅,用于基本上遍及整个图像确定着墨图案; 并且在像素子网格中存储在每个子网格像素行中的先前生成的用于打印墨滴的像素列的随机选择,并且相反地,用于打印每个子网格像素列中的下降的像素行的类似选择。 还优选地,对于每个像素的上方和至少一侧的像素,对大致随机化的选择进行定位规则。 许多特定的掩码被指定为密码模式,包括一个八乘八位的“骑士”阵列,二十六点五十的阵列,十六十个阵列和几个四乘四阵列。 本发明的另一种形式包括用于最小化打印的彩色图像中的方向和其他图案以及油墨聚结和搅拌的装置。 创建和使用印刷掩模的方法包括生成一系列基本上随机的数字作为行和列阵列,用于定义像素子网格的行或列,或两者; 并将阵列存储在有形介质中。

    High-resolution inkjet printing using color drop placement on every pixel row during a single pass
    6.
    发明授权
    High-resolution inkjet printing using color drop placement on every pixel row during a single pass 失效
    在单次通过期间,在每个像素行上使用色滴放置的高分辨率喷墨打印

    公开(公告)号:US06367908B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-09

    申请号:US08811788

    申请日:1997-03-04

    IPC分类号: B41J2300

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2103 B41J2/15

    摘要: An inkjet printing system uses high-resolution printheads holding different color inks to produce true 600 dpi color printing with a single pass of the printheads. By achieving a smaller drop size in the range of 25-50 picoliters for each printhead having a separate ink color (yellow, cyan, magenta, black), a full range of high-resolution color print-quality modes is possible. In an exemplary embodiment with a carriage scan speed of 25 ips, a two-pass draft mode uses a 7.5 kHz firing frequency, a four-pass normal mode uses a 4 kHz firing frequency, and an eight-pass best mode uses a 2 kHz firing frequency. In all of these print modes, each printhead can provide color inkdrop placement on every pixel row during a single pass.

    摘要翻译: 喷墨打印系统使用保持不同颜色墨水的高分辨率打印头,通过单次打印头产生真正的600 dpi彩色打印。 通过在具有单独墨水颜色(黄色,青色,品红色,黑​​色)的每个打印头的25-50皮升范围内实现更小的墨滴尺寸,可以进行全范围的高分辨率彩色打印质量模式。 在具有25 ips的滑架扫描速度的示例性实施例中,两路通气模式使用7.5kHz的发射频率,四通正常模式使用4kHz的发射频率,并且八通最佳模式使用2kHz 发射频率。 在所有这些打印模式中,每个打印头可以在单次通过期间在每个像素行上提供彩色墨滴放置。

    Bidirectional color printmodes with semistaggered swaths to minimize hue shift and other artifacts
    7.
    发明授权
    Bidirectional color printmodes with semistaggered swaths to minimize hue shift and other artifacts 失效
    双向彩色印刷图案,具有半分隔的条纹,以最小化色调偏移和其他工件

    公开(公告)号:US06250739B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-26

    申请号:US08810747

    申请日:1997-03-04

    申请人: Josep Maria Serra

    发明人: Josep Maria Serra

    IPC分类号: B41J221

    摘要: Bidirectional scanning printheads discharge color-ink drops at ultrahigh resolution while scanning in each direction, to form color swaths on a print medium. The heads are at least partially aligned with respect to the longitudinal axis of the medium, so that the swaths at least partly overlap in that direction. An advance mechanism intermittently steps the print medium longitudinally, to enable displacement of successive swaths. A control system alternates (1) one full reciprocation of the heads, to discharge drops while scanning each way across the medium, with (2) each step of the advance mechanism. Preferably the heads print, while scanning each way, a respective generally fixed nonzero fraction of the total amount of each secondary color to be printed. In this way the overall appearance of each secondary is essentially consistent and partway between two appearances respectively produced by scanning two ways. This invention avoids the long-printzone drawbacks associated with full-height-staggered heads. Preferably the fractions for all the swaths are about equal, so that the consistent appearance for each secondary is essentially the average of two appearances respectively produced by scanning two ways. Various printmasks complete each swath in eight passes with four print-medium advances, or four passes and two advances, or two and one—in each case printing in every pass.

    摘要翻译: 双向扫描打印头在每个方向扫描时以超高分辨率排出彩色墨滴,以在打印介质上形成彩色条纹。 头相对于介质的纵向轴线至少部分对准,使得条在该方向上至少部分重叠。 前进机构间歇地纵向地移动打印介质,以使连续的条带移位。 控制系统交替(1)头部的一个完整的往复运动,以扫描每个方式穿过介质排出液滴,(2)前进机构的每个步骤。 优选地,在每次扫描时,打印头打印要打印的每个次要颜色的总量的相应的大致固定的非零分数。 以这种方式,每个次要的整体外观基本上是一致的,并且通过扫描两种方式分别产生的两个外观之间是一致的。 本发明避免了与全高交错磁头相关联的长打印区缺点。 优选地,所有条带的部分大致相等,使得每个次要部分的一致外观基本上是通过扫描两种方式分别产生的两次外观的平均值。 各种打印掩模以八次通过完成每个条带,四个打印介质前进,四遍和两个前进,或两次和一次,每次通过打印。

    Multipass color printmasks based on location rules to minimize hue
shift, banding and coalescence
    8.
    发明授权
    Multipass color printmasks based on location rules to minimize hue shift, banding and coalescence 失效
    基于位置规则的多点彩色印刷掩模,以最小化色调偏移,条带和聚结

    公开(公告)号:US6067405A

    公开(公告)日:2000-05-23

    申请号:US810753

    申请日:1997-03-04

    申请人: Josep Maria Serra

    发明人: Josep Maria Serra

    摘要: Scanning printheads form a color image as inkdrops in a pixel grid on a print medium. Pixel row spacing equals nozzle pitch. Apparatus holds and provides (or creates in real time) a printmask using location rules that prevent addressing, within each scan, immediately neighboring pixels in any horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. The mask is applied to control the heads. In other aspects of the invention, the rules also prevent addressing, in each scan, horizontally neighboring pixels within the entire width of the mask; or vertically neighboring pixels within its entire height; or immediate neighbors in any direction across a boundary--horizontal, vertical, or either--between abutting masks. Specific masks are set forth implementing these aspects. Another form of the invention yields a two-pass mask with this pass-number pattern: ##EQU1## Another form is a mask-creating-and-using method: generate a number series to define rows/columns of a pixel grid for printing in successive head passes, test the numbers against rules to minimize ink coalescence, and accumulate the numbers as an array to define a pixel grid--all automatically. Also check performance of arrays so generated, select a preferred one, and store it in a tangible medium for later automatic recall to control a printer.

    摘要翻译: 扫描打印头在打印介质上的像素网格中形成彩色图像作为墨滴。 像素行间距等于喷嘴间距。 装置使用位置规则保持并提供(或实时地创建)打印掩码,该规则防止在每次扫描内在任何水平,垂直或对角线方向上紧邻相邻像素的寻址。 应用面罩来控制头部。 在本发明的其他方面,规则还防止在每个扫描中寻址在掩模的整个宽度内的水平相邻像素; 或垂直相邻的像素; 或直接相邻的任何方向跨越边界 - 水平,垂直或相邻的掩模之间。 阐述了实施这些方面的特定掩模。 本发明的另一种形式产生具有这种通数模式的双通道掩模:另一种形式是掩模创造和使用方法:产生数字系列以定义像素网格的行/列以便在连续的头部通行 ,根据规则测试数字以最小化墨合并,并将数字累加为数组以定义像素网格 - 全部自动。 还要检查如此生成的阵列的性能,选择一个首选的阵列,并将其存储在有形介质中,以供以后自动调用以控制打印机。

    Ink jet printing systems and related methods
    9.
    发明授权
    Ink jet printing systems and related methods 有权
    喷墨打印系统及相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US06877852B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-12

    申请号:US10205800

    申请日:2002-07-26

    IPC分类号: B41J2/01 B41J11/00 B41J29/00

    CPC分类号: B41J11/002

    摘要: In accordance with one embodiment, a system comprises a print head assembly comprising a plurality of ink-ejecting nozzles and a drying station downstream of the print head assembly and configured to produce and emit air proximate a print media. A deflector is mounted between the print head assembly and the drying station and is configured to deflect an amount of the air that is produced by the drying station.

    摘要翻译: 根据一个实施例,系统包括打印头组件,该打印头组件包括多个喷墨喷嘴和位于打印头组件下游的干燥站,并被配置为产生和排出靠近打印介质的空气。 偏转器安装在打印头组件和干燥站之间,并且构造成偏转由干燥站产生的空气量。

    Fast building of masks for use in incremental printing
    10.
    发明授权
    Fast building of masks for use in incremental printing 有权
    快速构建面罩,用于增量打印

    公开(公告)号:US06542258B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-01

    申请号:US09150322

    申请日:1998-09-09

    IPC分类号: G06K1500

    CPC分类号: G06K15/107

    摘要: A program with complete conditions for a usable mask yields a unitary mask, each try. One mask pattern is used throughout an image, but may be “tiled”. Preferably the program, for given mask position, expresses favorability of several candidate pass numbers as a “neighborhood constraint” in the form of a weight; distills the weights into one weight for each pass number; based on that, chooses a number for the position; and iterates for all positions. Many preferences are very useful, e.g. automatically balancing randomness vs. determinism, and several generalized relative notations. Another invention facet uses an input text file of mask constraints; a program reads constraints from the file, applies them, forms a mask and stores/uses it. Another reprocesses a mask for best image quality, fixing its own imperfections of first-round mask forming.

    摘要翻译: 具有完整条件的程序可用的掩模产生一个单一的面具,每个尝试。 在整个图像中使用一个掩模图案,但可以“平铺”。 优选地,对于给定的掩模位置,程序表示几种候选通过数的有利性,作为权重形式的“邻域约束”; 将每个通行证数量的重量分配给一个重量; 基于此,选择一个数字的位置; 并迭代所有职位。 许多偏好是非常有用的,例如 自动平衡随机性与决定论,以及几种广义相对符号。 另一个发明方面使用掩码约束的输入文本文件; 一个程序从文件读取约束,应用它们,形成一个掩码并存储/使用它。 另一个重新处理一个面具,以获得最佳的图像质量,固定自己的第一轮面具成型的缺陷。