Maximum-diagonal print mask and multipass printing modes, for hi

Details Maximum-diagonal print mask and multipass printing modes, for hi Maximum-diagonal print mask and multipass printing modes, for hi

1993-04-30

1997-10-14

Fuller, Benjamin R.

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

347 41, 347102, B41J 2300

Patent

active

056777167

ABSTRACT:
Images are printed by marks formed in pixel arrays by a scanning print head. During each scan marks are made in a pattern that approximates at least portions of many parallel, separated lines--angled steeply (best at about 3:1 slope, or at least much greater than 1:1) to the scanning axis and shallowly to the print-medium advance. Areas are left unprinted between the angled lines during one or more earlier scans for each image segment, and filled in during one or more later scans. Preferably the marks are made with liquid ink, and the medium heated to hasten drying. Heating causes an end-of-page paper-shrink defect that accentuates positional error components parallel to the print-medium advance; but the lines at a shallow angle to that advance tend to minimize those components--so the heating and steeply angled lines together promote high throughput while hiding the end-of-page defects. In practice the mark-forming includes placing marks only at pixels where marks are desired for a given image: the angled lines are incomplete where marks are not desired. The angled lines are at a steepest angle possible within design architecture of the scanning print head and print-medium-advance mechanism--or the steepest such angle consistent with a roughly equal number of marks per pen scan (for desired images in which all pixels are to be marked) and avoidance of other types of defects.

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