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EP1412194B1
EP1412194B1 EP02755626A EP02755626A EP1412194B1 EP 1412194 B1 EP1412194 B1 EP 1412194B1 EP 02755626 A EP02755626 A EP 02755626A EP 02755626 A EP02755626 A EP 02755626A EP 1412194 B1 EP1412194 B1 EP 1412194B1
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Renato Conta
Alessandro Scardovi
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/21—Ink jet for multi-colour printing
    • B41J2/2132—Print quality control characterised by dot disposition, e.g. for reducing white stripes or banding
    • B41J2/2139—Compensation for malfunctioning nozzles creating dot place or dot size errors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/36—Blanking or long feeds; Feeding to a particular line, e.g. by rotation of platen or feed roller
    • B41J11/42—Controlling printing material conveyance for accurate alignment of the printing material with the printhead; Print registering
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/26—Registering devices
    • B41J13/32—Means for positioning sheets in two directions under one control, e.g. for format control or orthogonal sheet positioning
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/145—Arrangement thereof
    • B41J2/155—Arrangement thereof for line printing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/21—Ink jet for multi-colour printing
    • B41J2/2132—Print quality control characterised by dot disposition, e.g. for reducing white stripes or banding
    • B41J2/2146—Print quality control characterised by dot disposition, e.g. for reducing white stripes or banding for line print heads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/485—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes
    • B41J2/505—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements
    • B41J2/515—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements line printer type
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/001—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface

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  • Printing devices with parallel or in-line type ink jet head produce printouts in a short space of time, in relation to the number of dots comprising the image, and are compact. Furthermore, on account of the fixed head, these devices have a lesser number of moving parts than the devices that employ a serial type ink jet head.
  • shingling In printing devices with a serial head, to obtain high quality images, "shingling" is used, by which is meant methods in which the sheet is fed by an amount less than the height of the head and in which a final line of print is obtained with various overlapping passes.
  • An elementary row is not printed by one nozzle associated therewith but is composed by dots of ink emitted by nozzles in different parts of the head. The advantage lies in the fact that the effect of dots missing due to a defective nozzle is lessened over various rows, and the visual disturbance is reduced.
  • Document EP 0963854 discloses an inkjet printer comprising a printhead, a nozzle checking means for detecting a defect of an inkjet nozzle mounted on the printhead, wherein the inkjet printer performs a plurality of scanning operations onto the same scanning line of the recording medium when the nozzle checking means detects a defect.
  • the plurality of image formations at least one image formation is obtained by printing the defective portion by using other normal nozzles instead of the defective nozzle. Image failure due to the defect of the nozzle is said to be improved.
  • Document EP 0023433 describes a fluid drop generator and an ink jet raster image recording method in which the entire raster image is created by a single traverse of the generator relative to the target transport mounted on a rotating drum. The generator is moved along the drum axis of one pixel position for each revolution of the drum. During a single drum revolution, all the pixel positions in a column around the periphery of the drum are addressed by a single nozzle located over the column.
  • the head 37 is supported by a carriage 60 which can effect a scanning movement of the desired width with respect to the platen 34.
  • the carriage 60 is suitable for sliding on guides 61 and 62 and its movement is controlled, for example, by means of a cam (not depicted in the drawings) suitably connected with the motor 41 and in sync with the motion of the sheet 39.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Quality & Reliability (AREA)
  • Ink Jet (AREA)
  • Facsimile Heads (AREA)
  • Particle Formation And Scattering Control In Inkjet Printers (AREA)

Claims (12)

  1. Procédé d'impression pour réaliser une impression sur un support d'impression (39, 77) en émettant des gouttes d'encre à partir d'un dispositif d'impression (33, 76) avec une tête de jet d'encre en ligne (37) comprenant une pluralité de buses (38) agencées côte-à-côte le long d'un axe transversal parallèle à un premier axe de référence X et en face dudit support d'impression (39, 77), ladite pluralité de buses étant associées à des grilles de référence correspondantes dans des positions d'impression de référence, le procédé comprenant l'étape consistant à imprimer une grille d'image définissant une pluralité de lignes de points horizontales le long dudit premier axe de référence X et une pluralité de lignes de points verticales le long d'un second axe de référence Y perpendiculaire au premier axe de référence X en réalisant un mouvement transversal alterné entre la tête (37) et le support d'impression (39, 77), ledit mouvement transversal alterné étant défini par des oscillations de la tête le long de l'axe transversal tout en déplaçant simultanément ledit support d'impression le long dudit second axe de référence Y pour la définition de ladite pluralité de lignes de points verticales, fournissant ainsi une permutation dans l'actionnement des buses associées auxdites positions d'impression pour masquer des points non imprimés (56b) éventuels sur ledit support d'impression et/ou pour obtenir de nombreux points dans ladite grille d'image augmentant ainsi la définition d'impression par rapport à celle desdites buses, dans lequel chaque ligne de points verticale est imprimée par plus d'une buse de ladite pluralité de buses.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite tête a des buses supplémentaires, dont le nombre dépend de la grandeur desdites oscillations de la tête le long de l'axe transversal.
  3. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, dans lequel lesdites positions d'impression de référence des grilles de référence sont espacées par une distance p à la fois le long du premier axe de référence X et le long dudit second axe de référence Y, ladite distance p correspondant à l'espace intermédiaire situé entre lesdites buses le long dudit axe transversal.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que ledit mouvement alterné s'étend sur une grandeur totale, dans les deux directions le long dudit axe transversal, entre une et soixante quatre fois la distance p des buses.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdites oscillations de la tête ont une fréquence comprise entre 5 et 40 Hz.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ladite fréquence est inférieure à 20 Hz.
  7. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que l'étape d'impression est réalisée en actionnant lesdites buses dans des positions d'impression intermédiaires par rapport aux positions d'impression de référence, augmentant ainsi la définition transversale des points imprimés par rapport à la densité des buses.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 7, dans lequel lesdites positions d'impression intermédiaires sont espacées les unes des autres de p/N, où N est égal à 2 ou 4.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la loi dudit mouvement alterné est du type sinusoïdal.
  10. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'impression est ouvert à une alimentation de courant autonome et en ce que lesdites buses sont activées par des actionneurs relatifs entraînés dans des groupes séquentiels pour minimiser les pics de courant absorbés par ladite alimentation de courant autonome.
  11. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdites buses sont actionnées selon un mode à plusieurs passages de type à modulation.
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le déplacement du support d'impression est réalisé par l'alimentation continue dudit support d'impression dans le dispositif d'impression le long dudit second axe de référence Y.
EP02755626A 2001-07-19 2002-07-04 Dispositif d'impression a tete d'impression a jet d'encre de type parallele Expired - Lifetime EP1412194B1 (fr)

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IT2001TO000707A ITTO20010707A1 (it) 2001-07-19 2001-07-19 Dispositivo di stampa con testina a getto di inchiostro di tipo parallelo.
PCT/IT2002/000442 WO2003008195A1 (fr) 2001-07-19 2002-07-04 Dispositif d'impression a tete d'impression a jet d'encre de type parallele

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