Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Patent
1995-10-19
2000-03-28
Lee, Eddie C.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
B41J 29393
Patent
active
060422130
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for correcting a full-line printing head, which has a high printing quality, at a high yield, as well as a printhead corrected by this apparatus and a printer using this printhead. In the final stage of a semiconductor manufacturing process, the manufactured printhead is made to perform an experimental printing operation to print a predetermined dot pattern. The dot pattern is imaged by a CCD camera and image processing is executed to obtain an image signal. A plurality of pixels (4.times.32 dots) from among the pixels represented by the image signal are gathered together, the white or black pixels among these are counted and binarization is performed by comparing the count with a predetermined threshold value. Correction data for adjusting the amount of ink discharged from each nozzle of the printhead is generated based upon the binarized data, and the correction data is written in a memory provided in the printhead.
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Lee Eddie C.
Mahoney Christopher
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