Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Ejector mechanism
Patent
1997-12-11
2000-02-22
Le, N.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Ejector mechanism
347 13, 347 14, B41J 2155, B41J 2938
Patent
active
060272031
ABSTRACT:
A page wide printhead for an ink-jet printer includes a plurality of ink-jet nozzles exceeding the number of nozzles used to print across the widest sheet of material to be printed by the printer. The excess nozzles permit the mounting tolerances for printheads to be relaxed so that only selected ones of the nozzles of mounted printheads are within a print site for printing the widest sheet of material to be printed. By selecting those nozzles within the maximum print site for operation of the printer, the sheet wide printheads are effectively mounted with a much higher precision than the relaxed tolerances permit so that ink-jet printers having sheet wide printheads can be economically manufactured. The identification of the nozzles within the maximum print site is performed by printing marks, preferably vertical lines, on a sheet of material and comparing the printed marks to an indicia representing the nominal location for a given picture element (pel). The corresponding mark determines which nozzle should be selected for printing that pel. The difference between the selected nozzle and the nominal location of the given pel determines an offset which can be applied to all of the nozzles of the page wide printhead for printing within the maximum print site. Alternately, a transformation mapping can be assembled for converting nominal pel locations to be printed to actual nozzles of the page wide printhead.
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Brady John A.
Le N.
Lexmark International Inc.
Nguyen Thinh
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