Method of controlling a printhead movement based on a screw pitc

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1998-08-31

2000-05-16

Sircus, Brian

Electricity: motive power systems

Positional servo systems

With particular motor control system responsive to the...

318696, 318632, H02P 900

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060641703

ABSTRACT:
An image processing apparatus (10), typically for sheet thermal print media. The image processing apparatus (10) typically comprises a vacuum imaging drum (300) for holding thermal print media (32) and dye donor sheet material (36) in registration on the vacuum imaging drum (300). A printhead (500), driven by a lead screw (250), moves along a line parallel to a longitudinal axis (301) of the vacuum imaging drum (300) as the vacuum imaging drum (300) rotates. The printhead (500) receives information signals and produces radiation which is directed to the dye donor material (36) which causes color to transfer from the dye donor material (36) to the thermal print media (32). A stepper motor (162) that turns the lead screw (250) can run in a microstepping mode. To determine an optimal lead screw (250) pitch, a method of this invention utilizes the characteristic sinusoidal positional error (154) behavior of the stepper motor (162) that is at 4 times the frequency of the composite microstepping current waveform, and calculates the ideal value (in/rev or mm/rev) based on image resolution, number of full steps per revolution of the stepper motor (162), and the number of pixels per motor step. An integral, power of 2 multiple of the ideal value, based on suitability of stepper motor (162) speed, is then used to derive the lead screw (250) pitch. Based on the lead screw (250) pitch selected, the phase angle relationship of positional error (154), swath-to-swath, varies within a small set of discrete values, based on the number of channels used in the writing swath (450).

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