摘要:
Portions of ink jet transducers are deactivated so as to tune the transducer to the transducer drive rather than vice versa. Deactivation may be accomplished by creating a discontinuity in a conductive coating on the transducer or by partially depoling the transducer.
摘要:
A demand ink jet employs removable cartridges of hot melt ink. When the temperature of the ink within the cartridge is raised, the ink melts and drains from the cartridge into the supply system. Each of the cartridges may include ink of a different color so as to permit multi-color printing.
摘要:
An ink jet apparatus employing hot melt ink includes a reservoir which may be heated independently of the ink jet itself. This permits the reservoir to be heated when the apparatus is to operate in the ejection mode, so as to melt the ink into the liquid state in the reservoir. The reservoir may also be cooled so as to return the ink in the reservoir to the solid state in the stand-by mode while the ink in the jet remains in the liquid state at all times throughout the stand-by mode and the ejection mode.
摘要:
A demand ink jet employs removable cartridges of hot melt ink. When the temperature of the ink within the cartridge is raised, the ink melts and drains from the cartridge into the supply system.
摘要:
The volume of ink ejected from an ink jet printing apparatus during one cycle of operation for printing a dot upon a recording medium is controlled within that cycle of operation by operating the ink jet apparatus via the application of a pulse train having a periodicity equivalent to the dominant resonant frequency of the ink jet apparatus. An electrical signal in the form of an earlier pulse train is followed by at least one additional electrical signal or pulse having a time delay and an ink jet transducer is selectively gated on or off by the electrical signals.