Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Ejector mechanism
Patent
1995-10-20
1999-12-07
Le, N.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Ejector mechanism
B41J 2165
Patent
active
059971290
ABSTRACT:
An ink-jet printer is provided capable of performing a printing operation across the entire width of a recording medium such as a tape without producing a non-printed area at edges of the recording medium. In the ink-jet printer, the printing position is defined by an guide element disposed so that the guide element faces an ink-jet print head. The guide element is provided with excess ink capturing apparatus having a mesh screen with a size greater than the width of the tape being carried, and also provided with an ink absorbing surface disposed at the back of the above-described screen. To perform a solid printing operation onto the tape, the printing range is set greater than the tape width without producing a non-printed area at the edges. The ink droplets which are ejected from the print head when the print head is located in regions outside the tape are all absorbed into an ink absorber via the mesh screen disposed at the surface of the guide element thereby enduring that the surface of the tape is not dirtied with ink.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4333087 (1982-06-01), Yamaguti
patent: 5291227 (1994-03-01), Suzuki
patent: 5536092 (1996-07-01), Yamguchi
Le N.
Seiko Epson Corporation
Tran Thien
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