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7175248 Fluid ejection device with feedback circuit  
A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid ejecting elements, each fluid ejecting element controllable to conduct electrical current between a supply voltage and a reference voltage. Up...
7159959 Methods and systems for detecting errors in printhead pattern data and for preventing erroneous printing  
Methods, systems and computer readable media for identifying print errors caused by erroneous print pattern data received at the printhead of a printer. Methods, systems and computer readable media...
7156483 Method for determining ink drop velocity of carrier-mounted printhead using an optical scanner  
A method for determining ink drop velocity of a printhead located at a gap above a print medium. A first ink mark is printed at a first printhead velocity. A second ink mark is printed at a...
7150511 Recording apparatus and reciprocating record position alignment method  
A recording apparatus has a bidirectional recording section, a check pattern recording section that forms check patterns different in record position of backward recording relative to forward...
7144093 Inkjet printhead, driving method of inkjet printhead, and substrate for inkjet printhead  
To drive an inkjet printhead having an array of printing elements, where the first and second printing elements which discharge relatively different amounts of ink are arranged on the same array in...
7139096 Printing system and printing method  
The colors used for forming an image are limited in advance to a predetermined number of color patterns called representative colors; on the host side the image data received is divided into...
7131713 Bidirectional printing method and apparatus with reduced color unevenness  
A printing apparatus, which forms a color image by applying different color inks to a printing material while bi-directionally moving the recording head to scan the recording material, includes a...
7133153 Printhead having digital circuit and analog circuit, and printing apparatus using the same  
In a printhead having an element substrate on which a digital circuit including a printing element and a drive circuit for driving the printing element in accordance with input print data, and an...
7128394 Color inkjet print apparatus capable of changing orders of inks squirts  
An apparatus for printing color inkjet images includes an image processing unit which processes source color data to generate output color data together with a signal indicative of an order of ink...
7125090 Firing pulse duration control  
This invention concerns the control of firing pulse duration in a printhead, for a printer, such as a high performance color printer. The invention, in particular concerns a control system and a...
7125100 Terminals for circuit board  
Circuit board 10 is of substantially rectangular shape, provided in the upper half of the juxtaposed face 13 with a substantially circular test terminal 20. In the lower half are provided a...
7126715 Ink jet recording apparatus and control method therefor  
A recording apparatus for recording with use of a recording head having two nozzle arrays arranged side-by-side includes first, second, and third direct memory access (DMA) units, a data converter...
7125089 Driver device for a thermal print head  
A print head has m driver devices 1 that are fed with a supply voltage VDD and that control the driving of resistive elements acting as heaters and a regulator 2 that is fed with a supply...
7121639 Data rate equalisation to account for relatively different printhead widths  
A printer controller configured to generate dot data for supply to a printhead that includes at least first and second longitudinally extending printhead chips that are positioned adjacent each...
7121660 Print producing method and print producing apparatus  
Individual droplets of a liquid composition landing on a printing medium during one pass (one scan) are connected to the respective adjacent droplets and integrated with them to form a flat coat...
7114791 Head driving device of liquid jetting apparatus and method of driving the same  
A head driving device of a liquid jetting apparatus includes a driving element, respectively provided corresponding to plural nozzles from which a liquid droplet is jetted, a driving waveform...
7108344 Printmode for narrow margin printing  
A printmode for an inkjet printer including a plurality of print nozzles and an edge guide projecting into a printzone into which at least one of the plurality of print nozzles may be transported...
7104626 Printing method and printer with failure compensation  
A printer including a transport system for a recording medium, a printhead containing a plurality of print units each of which being capable of printing a pixel line when the printhead is scanned...
7104622 Device and method for driving jetting head  
There is disclosed a head driving device which drives a plurality of pressure generating elements for generating pressure fluctuation in a jetted object contained in each of associated pressure...
7104624 Fire pulses in a fluid ejection device  
An fluid ejection device includes nozzles and includes firing resistors which correspond to the nozzles. Each firing resistor and corresponding nozzle are located in zones on the fluid ejection...
7101007 Printhead, printhead driving method, and data output apparatus  
The disclosed printhead can speed up transfer of image data and driving of printing elements without increasing the number of signal lines and connection terminals. An image data signal supplied to...
7097265 Driving device of ink-jet print head, control method of the driving device, and liquid drop discharge apparatus  
A driving device of an ink-jet print head is provided that discharges liquid drops through a plurality of nozzles. The driving device comprises a data storage unit which stores a data block for...
7093915 Controlling direction of satellite droplet ejection in ink jet printer  
A method of printing with a fluid jet printer ( 10 ) is provided. The printer ( 10 ) has a printhead ( 12 ) with a fluid ejecting face ( 12 a ) facing a recording medium ( 14 ), the fluid ejecting...
7090321 Ink-jet head control circuit, ink-jet head module, data transmission method, and liquid drop discharge apparatus  
An ink-jet head control circuit is provided that includes a latch circuit which respectively stores a first data block and a second data block following the first data block, for ink liquid drop...
7083249 Method for establishing standard values to obscure banding in printed result of ink jet printer and ink jet printer set up by the same  
The invention relates to a method for setting a tolerance of each standard value, which is a factor in determination of ink droplets landing accuracy, to an ink jet printer that is set up using the...
7083255 Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method  
This invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus of a low cost construction having a plurality of print head units arranged at equal intervals and capable of forming a high quality image at...
7073885 Liquid jetting apparatus  
The liquid jetting apparatus includes a head member having a nozzle, a supporting member that that can support a medium, a scanning mechanism that can cause the head member to relatively move with...
7066564 Selection of printing conditions to reduce ink aerosol  
Aerosol emissions within an inkjet printer are reduced. A printhead of the inkjet printer is fired using a first set of firing conditions when firing conditions are critical for printing...
7063400 Printing apparatus and method for improving quality of printing image  
The present invention is related to an apparatus and a method for improving the quality of printing. The reference timings are adjusted by random values to decrease the cyclic unevenness of images...
7059698 Method of altering an effective print resolution of an ink jet printer  
A method of printing using an ink jet printer includes the steps of: defining at least one scan line with a plurality of pixel locations spaced apart at a predetermined print resolution; scanning a...
7052123 Ink jet image recording method and apparatus using the method  
An ink jet image recording method including hitting an ink composition for ink jet recording on a recording material in a hitting volume of 0.1 to 100 pl at an ejection frequency of 1 KHz or more...
7040727 Apparatus for controlling power supply to printer and method thereof  
An apparatus for and a method of controlling a power supply for a printer. A power on signal is automatically provided to turn on the printer power supply in accordance with a predetermined...
7036897 Method and apparatus for operating a printer  
An incremental printer comprising a plurality of printing elements arranged to print different portions of an image, the printer being arranged, prior to printing an image, to identify elements...
7036899 Printing apparatus and printhead control method  
In a printing apparatus in which printing is performed by a printhead having a plurality of printing elements, each driven by electrical energy, and the number of printing elements driven at the...
7036898 Supplying power to logic systems in printers  
Power is provided from one portion of a printer, such as a printer electronics module, to another portion of the printer, such as a printhead. Logic signals produced in a first electronic module of...
7032986 Self-calibration of power delivery control to firing resistors  
A fluid ejection device having an internal power supply path and a power regulator providing an offset voltage from the internal power supply path voltage. A self-calibration circuit in the inkjet...
7032987 Nozzle scheduling for ink jet printing  
Nozzle scheduling algorithms that provide a unified approach to designing nozzle firing algorithms that incorporate a variety of specifiable nozzle-firing constraints such as print head (nozzle)...
7029084 Integrated programmable fire pulse generator for inkjet printhead assembly  
An inkjet printhead assembly includes at least one inkjet printhead having nozzles and firing resisters. The inkjet printhead assembly includes fire pulse generator circuitry responsive to a start...
7025433 Changing drop-ejection velocity in an ink-jet pen  
An exemplary method, which can be used to reduce errors related to pen-to-pen misalignment and/or paper-shape variation, entails changing the drop-ejection velocity of an ink-jet pen.
7025437 Printing methods and apparatus for mutually interstitial printing and optional interlacing  
A dot matrix printing method is provided for printing an image on a printing medium with a printing head and having an array of equally spaced marking elements. The marking elements are spaced...
7021843 Modular print engine controllers  
A page width print head assembly has a page width printhead comprising two or more printhead modules arranged end on end. A controller module is provided for each printhead module. The printhead...
7021732 Printer jet detection method and apparatus  
A method includes ejecting ink from a first set of one or more nozzles to form a first image pattern at least partially within an image field. The method likewise includes ejecting ink from a...
7018010 Line scanning type ink jet recording device capable of finely and individually controlling ink ejection from each nozzle  
A computer portion 201 of a printer includes a memory storing a printer driver software 201 a and nozzle profile data 211 . The printer driver software 201 a includes a raster image...
7011395 Print head energy storage  
The manner in which power is supplied to the firing elements of an ink jet printhead is improved by moving a power supply capacitor from the printer to the print head cartridge to improve the...
7004555 Apparatus for ejecting very small droplets  
An apparatus for ejecting very small droplets according to the present invention comprises a first ink ejector and a second ink ejector. The first ink ejector is controlled to eject a main droplet...
6998928 Digital pulse width modulation  
A digital technique for pulse width modulation (PWM) utilizes a tapped delay line 304 receiving a reference clock and generating a plurality of time delayed reference clock transitions having...
6991309 Ink jet recording method and head  
Liquid jet recording apparatuses and liquid jet recording methods are provided. Ink droplets are jetted from ink jetting orifices. A cross sectional area of each of the ink jetting orifices is...
RE38941 Ink droplet ejecting method and apparatus  
In an ink droplet ejecting method and apparatus, by merely adding one pulse after a driving waveform for a main ejection of ink, without changing the driving voltage, it is possible to obtain an...
6979068 Printing apparatus and control method thereof  
A printing apparatus which performs printing using a printhead having plural printing elements. Print data corresponding to a defective nozzle is added to print data corresponding to an adjacent...
6969135 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus has a recording head with a data generating unit that converts information transmitted from an external device into recording data that matches the configuration of the...