Heater blower system in a color ink-jet printer
    4.
    发明授权
    Heater blower system in a color ink-jet printer 失效
    加热鼓风机系统在彩色喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US6059406A

    公开(公告)日:2000-05-09

    申请号:US868020

    申请日:1997-06-03

    摘要: A color ink-jet printer having a heating blower system for evaporating ink carriers from the print medium after ink-jet printing. A preheat drive roller engages the medium and draws it to a print zone. The drive roller is heated and preheats the medium before it reaches the print zone. At the print zone, a print heater heats the underside of the medium via radiant and convective heat transfer through an opening pattern formed in a print zone heater screen. The amount of heat energy is variable, depending on the type of the print medium. A crossflow fan at the exit side of the print zone direct an airflow at the print zone in order to cause turbulence at the medium surface being printed and further accelerate evaporation of the ink carriers from the medium. An exhaust fan and duct system exhausts air and ink carrier vapor away from the print zone and out of the printer housing.

    摘要翻译: 一种彩色喷墨打印机,具有用于在喷墨打印之后从打印介质蒸发墨水载体的加热鼓风机系统。 预热驱动辊接合介质并将其拉到打印区。 驱动辊被加热并在介质到达打印区之前预热介质。 在打印区域,打印加热器通过辐射和对流的热传递,通过印刷区加热器屏幕中形成的开口图案来加热介质的下侧。 取决于打印介质的类型,热能的量是可变的。 在打印区域的出口侧的横流风扇引导打印区域的气流,以便在打印介质表面处引起湍流,并进一步加速墨水介质从介质的蒸发。 排气风扇和管道系统将空气和墨水载体蒸气从打印区域排出并离开打印机外壳。

    Ink-jet printer with print heater having variable heat energy for
different media
    6.
    发明授权
    Ink-jet printer with print heater having variable heat energy for different media 失效
    具有不同介质可变热能的印刷加热器的喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5467119A

    公开(公告)日:1995-11-14

    申请号:US137388

    申请日:1993-10-14

    摘要: A color ink-jet printer having a heating blower system for evaporating ink carriers from the print medium after ink-jet printing. A preheat drive roller engages the medium and draws it to a print zone. The drive roller is heated and preheats the medium before it reaches the print zone. At the print zone, a print heater heats the underside of the medium via radiant and convective heat transfer through an opening pattern formed in a print zone heater screen. The amount of heat energy is variable, depending on the type of the print medium. A crossflow fan at the exit side of the print zone direct an airflow at the print zone in order to cause turbulence at the medium surface being printed and further accelerate evaporation of the ink carriers from the medium. An exhaust fan and duct system exhausts air and ink carrier vapor away from the print zone and out of the printer housing.

    摘要翻译: 一种彩色喷墨打印机,具有用于在喷墨打印之后从打印介质蒸发墨水载体的加热鼓风机系统。 预热驱动辊接合介质并将其拉到打印区。 驱动辊被加热并在介质到达打印区之前预热介质。 在打印区域,打印加热器通过辐射和对流的热传递,通过印刷区加热器屏幕中形成的开口图案来加热介质的下侧。 取决于打印介质的类型,热能的量是可变的。 在打印区域的出口侧的横流风扇引导打印区域的气流,以便在打印介质表面处引起湍流,并进一步加速墨水介质从介质的蒸发。 排气风扇和管道系统将空气和墨水载体蒸气从打印区域排出并离开打印机外壳。

    Ink-jet printer with precise print zone media control
    7.
    发明授权
    Ink-jet printer with precise print zone media control 失效
    喷墨打印机具有精确的打印区域介质控制

    公开(公告)号:US5399039A

    公开(公告)日:1995-03-21

    申请号:US56229

    申请日:1993-04-30

    CPC分类号: B41J13/10 B41J11/002

    摘要: An ink-jet printer having improved print quality and full color printing capability on plain paper media. To accommodate placement of both input and output media trays on the same side of the printer housing for operator convenience, a paper path with a direction reversal is employed. A low cost radiant print heater with a reflector cavity heats the medium at the print area to increase the ink carrier evaporation rate. The printer provides improved medium control at the print area through an arrangement of small diameter drive and tension shafts and shortened handoff distance between the rollers. The heater is disposed between the drive and tension rollers. To minimize the handoff distance, portions of the drive rollers extend into the reflector cavity. The resulting media advancement mechanism has low inertia, with improved media positioning accuracy.

    摘要翻译: 一种在普通纸介质上具有改进的打印质量和全色打印能力的喷墨打印机。 为了方便操作,为了适应输入和输出介质托盘放置在打印机外壳的同一侧,采用具有方向反转的纸张通道。 具有反射器空腔的低成本辐射打印加热器在打印区域加热介质以增加墨载体蒸发速率。 该打印机通过小直径驱动和张力轴的布置提供了在打印区域的改进的介质控制,并缩短了辊之间的切换距离。 加热器设置在驱动和张紧辊之间。 为了最小化切换距离,驱动辊的一部分延伸到反射器腔中。 所得到的介质提升机构具有低惯性,具有改进的介质定位精度。

    Preheat roller for thermal ink-jet printer
    8.
    发明授权
    Preheat roller for thermal ink-jet printer 失效
    热敏喷墨打印机预热辊

    公开(公告)号:US5287123A

    公开(公告)日:1994-02-15

    申请号:US878186

    申请日:1992-05-01

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

    CPC分类号: B41J11/002

    摘要: A color ink-jet printer having a heating blower system for evaporating ink carriers from the print medium after ink-jet printing. A preheat drive roller engages the medium and draws it to a print zone. The drive roller is heated and preheats the medium before it reaches the print zone. At the print zone, a print heater heats the underside of the medium via radiant and convective heat transfer through an opening pattern formed in a print zone heater screen. The amount of heat energy is variable, depending on the type of the print medium. A crossflow fan at the exit side of the print zone direct an airflow at the print zone in order to cause turbulence at the medium surface being printed and further accelerate evaporation of the ink carriers from the medium. An exhaust fan and duct system exhausts air and ink carrier vapor away from the print zone and out of the printer housing.

    摘要翻译: 一种彩色喷墨打印机,具有用于在喷墨打印之后从打印介质蒸发墨水载体的加热鼓风机系统。 预热驱动辊接合介质并将其拉到打印区。 驱动辊被加热并在介质到达打印区之前预热介质。 在打印区域,打印加热器通过辐射和对流的热传递,通过印刷区加热器屏幕中形成的开口图案来加热介质的下侧。 取决于打印介质的类型,热能的量是可变的。 在打印区域的出口侧的横流风扇引导打印区域的气流,以便在打印介质表面处引起湍流,并进一步加速墨水介质从介质的蒸发。 排气风扇和管道系统将空气和墨水载体蒸气从打印区域排出并离开打印机外壳。

    Print zone heater screen for thermal ink-jet printer
    9.
    发明授权
    Print zone heater screen for thermal ink-jet printer 失效
    用于热喷墨打印机的打印区加热器屏幕

    公开(公告)号:US5329295A

    公开(公告)日:1994-07-12

    申请号:US876942

    申请日:1992-05-01

    IPC分类号: B41J2/01 B41J11/00 B41J13/10

    CPC分类号: B41J13/10 B41J11/002

    摘要: A color ink-jet printer having a heating blower system for evaporating ink carriers from the print medium after ink-jet printing. A preheat drive roller engages the medium and draws it to a print zone. The drive roller is heated and preheats the medium before it reaches the print zone. At the print zone, a print heater heats the underside of the medium via radiant and convective heat transfer through an opening pattern formed in a print zone heater screen. The amount of heat energy is variable, depending on the type of the print medium. A crossflow fan at the exit side of the print zone direct an airflow at the print zone in order to cause turbulence at the medium surface being printed and further accelerate evaporation of the ink carriers from the medium. An exhaust fan and duct system exhausts air and ink carrier vapor away from the print zone and out of the printer housing.

    摘要翻译: 一种彩色喷墨打印机,具有用于在喷墨打印之后从打印介质蒸发墨水载体的加热鼓风机系统。 预热驱动辊接合介质并将其拉到打印区。 驱动辊被加热并在介质到达打印区之前预热介质。 在打印区域,打印加热器通过辐射和对流的热传递,通过印刷区加热器屏幕中形成的开口图案来加热介质的下侧。 取决于打印介质的类型,热能的量是可变的。 在打印区域的出口侧的横流风扇引导打印区域的气流,以便在打印介质表面处引起湍流,并进一步加速墨水介质从介质的蒸发。 排气风扇和管道系统将空气和墨水载体蒸气从打印区域排出并离开打印机外壳。

    Ink-jet printer having dual drying system
    10.
    发明授权
    Ink-jet printer having dual drying system 失效
    具有双重干燥系统的喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5774155A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-30

    申请号:US736893

    申请日:1996-10-25

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

    CPC分类号: B41J11/002

    摘要: An ink-jet printer having a dual drying system. A print heater is disposed at the print zone for heating a portion of the print medium during printing operations to dry ink ejected onto the medium. The printer has means for drying the print medium at a drying location before the medium reaches the print zone to prevent uneven shrinkage of a cellulose-based print medium due to heating the medium at the print zone. The print heater can be controlled to provide a higher temperature at the print zone than the drying means provides at the drying location. The printer provides the capability of independent control of said drying means and said print heater. A method is described for detecting a transparent medium being advanced to a print zone of an ink-jet printer capable of supporting printing operations on a transparent medium as well as an opaque medium, including: providing a sheet of transparent print medium having an opaque strip extending along a leading edge thereof, wherein a reflectivity of the strip is substantially higher than a reflectivity of the transparent print medium; advancing an opaque or transparent print medium along a medium path toward the print zone; and determining whether a print medium being advanced to the print zone is an opaque type or a transparent type by sensing the presence of the opaque strip on said transparent medium.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有双重干燥系统的喷墨打印机。 打印加热器设置在打印区域,用于在打印操作期间加热打印介质的一部分以将喷墨到介质上的墨水干燥。 打印机具有用于在介质到达打印区域之前在干燥位置干燥打印介质的装置,以防止由于在打印区域加热介质而导致的基于纤维素的打印介质的不均匀收缩。 可以控制打印加热器以在打印区域提供比在干燥位置处提供的干燥装置更高的温度。 打印机提供对所述干燥装置和所述打印加热器的独立控制的能力。 描述了一种用于检测正在进行到能够支持在透明介质上的打印操作的喷墨打印机的打印区域的透明介质以及不透明介质的方法,包括:提供具有不透明条带的透明打印介质片 沿其前缘延伸,其中所述带的反射率显着高于所述透明打印介质的反射率; 将不透明或透明的打印介质沿介质路径推向打印区域; 以及通过感测所述透明介质上的不透明条带的存在来确定提前到打印区域的打印介质是不透明类型还是透明类型。