Multiple marker inkjet printing for increased print speed

Details Multiple marker inkjet printing for increased print speed Multiple marker inkjet printing for increased print speed

2001-01-31

2002-10-29

Nguyen, Thinh (Department: 2861)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

Reexamination Certificate

active

06471332

ABSTRACT:

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to inkjet printing using two or more printheads of the same color to increase printing speed.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Inkjet printing systems are in common use today. An ink jet printer forms a printed image by printing a pattern of individual dots at particular locations of an array defined for the printing medium. The locations are conveniently visualized as being small dots in a rectilinear array. The locations are sometimes “dot locations”, “dot positions”, or “pixels”. Thus, the printing operation can be viewed as the filling of a pattern of dot locations with dots of ink.
Ink jet printers print dots by ejecting very small drops of ink onto the print medium, and typically include a movable carriage that supports one or more printheads each having ink ejecting nozzles. The carriage traverses over the surface of the print medium, and the nozzles are controlled to eject drops of ink at appropriate times pursuant to command of a microcomputer or other controller, wherein the timing of the application of the ink drops is intended to correspond to the pattern of pixels of the image being printed.
Color ink jet printers commonly employ a plurality of printheads, for example four, mounted in the print carriage to produce different colors. Each printhead contains ink of a different color, with the commonly used colors being cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. These base colors are produced by depositing a drop of the required color onto a dot location. Secondary or shaded colors are formed by depositing drops of different colors on adjacent dot locations; the human eye interprets the color mixing as the secondary or shading, through well known optical principles.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method to print ink drops in an inkjet printer, and particularly to a printing system and method where at least one color ink can be printed by two (or more) printheads. The method divides the drops to be printed between the two printheads with purposes of higher printer velocity, higher image quality and higher print reliability.


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