Image producing apparatus for microfluidic printing

Details Image producing apparatus for microfluidic printing Image producing apparatus for microfluidic printing

1997-06-03

2000-03-28

Barlow, John

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Controller

347 19, B41J 2938

Patent

active

060422084

ABSTRACT:
An image producing method and apparatus is described which, in response to a stored image file, prints a plurality of microfluidic printing pixels on a display is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of ink delivery chambers, a look-up-table for converting code values corresponding to each pixel of the input image file to ink volumes to be pumped into the ink delivery chamber by microfluidic pumps, and computes the ink volumes of the inks to be pumped into each ink chamber from the code values of the corresponding pixels of the input image file. The apparatus further computes pump parameters for pumping inks of the correct volumes into each ink chamber according to the code values at each pixel of the input image file, and in response to the computed pump parameters pumps the correct amount of inks into each ink chamber, and the ink will be used to form an image pixel on the display.

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