Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Ejector mechanism
Patent
1995-05-09
1999-03-02
Le, N.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Ejector mechanism
347 21, 347 22, B41J 2015, B41J 2165
Patent
active
058777881
ABSTRACT:
A fluid (liquid or water) wash is used to clean the front surface of an ink jet printer cartridge. In addition, a nozzle plate that overlies the nozzle shields the nozzle array from the splatter of ink. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. Some ink seeps behind the nozzle plate onto the array of nozzle orifices. The ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. The ink coating is washed away by fluid streams that flow over the nozzle surface and in some embodiments flow over the nozzle orifices themselves. The fluid may be water, ink or other liquid that is channelled across the nozzle surface, or the fluid may be an air stream that blows across the nozzle surface.
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Chapin Kenneth C.
Graziano Michael A.
Haan Henk
Moscato Anthony V.
Paroff Paul J.
Le N.
Moore Business Forms Inc.
Tran Thien
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