Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Patent
1999-07-27
2000-10-17
Barlow, John
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
347 43, B41J 29393
Patent
active
061320242
ABSTRACT:
Nonoptical properties of inks can be brought to bear in locating ink that is invisible to an automatic sensor. Physical characteristics of inks as liquids can be exploited to reveal their locations with surprising precision. The system includes an optical sensor. Using ink that is visible to the sensor, a preferably fractional fill pattern is printed on a region of a printing medium. Using ink that is invisible to the sensor, calibration indicia or other patterns are printed on particular portions of the same region. Bleed (running together of the liquids of the two inks) tends to convert the fractional fill pattern into a solid fill, within the particular portions that were also printed with the "invisible" ink. Resulting optoelectronic signals provide amply high contrast between (1) fractional fill in the particular portions where the "invisible" ink is applied and (2) the original fractional fill elsewhere. The sensor responds to areas where bleed has converted the fractional fill pattern into a relatively more solid fill. Preferably, to enhance contrast, the visible-ink fractional pattern is printed as aggregations of multiple adjacent pixels, rather than individual, mutually separated pixels--but these aggregations are spaced apart. These two preferences together lead to a pattern that bleeds most effectively of any that were tested. Ideal fill density is roughly twenty-five percent.
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Blanton Robert D.
Nelson Gregory D.
Sievert Otto K.
Barlow John
Hallacher Craig A.
Hewlett--Packard Company
Potts Jerry R.
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