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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110298853 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF A printing apparatus includes a plurality of full-line type printheads. The printing apparatus holds information relating to overlap nozzles that overlap between a reference printhead and an adjustment printhead, generates discharge data for causing a tilt adjustment pa... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110242173 | METHOD OF PRINTING A BARCODE USING A LINE PRINTHEAD, AND A PRINTING A barcode printing method can easily and quickly find the location of a group of consecutive printing elements that can print a barcode correctly when the line print head has faulty printing elements. The printing device 1 determines the shift range L5 for... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110216116 | PRINTER INCLUDING DOT DATA GENERATOR WITH STOCHASTICALLY RAMPED PRINT DATA A printer including a plurality of printhead modules located across a print media transport path is disclosed. Each printhead module has an elongate printhead. Nozzles of respective printheads overlap with nozzles of printheads of neighboring printhead modules. The prin... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20100245429 | PRINT ENGINE CONTROLLER EMPLOYING ACCUMULATIVE CORRECTION FACTOR IN PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD A print engine controller for a pagewidth inkjet printhead having a plurality of abutting printhead modules mounted on a carrier. The print engine controller is configured to: (a) receive data identifying a rotational yaw displacement of an erroneously displaced printhe... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100134545 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A printing apparatus includes a line head which includes first and second basic heads each having a plurality of nozzles in a predetermined direction and in which the first and second basic heads are arranged in the predetermined direction so as to form an overlapping s... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100026748 | PRINTHEAD AND METHOD OF PRINTING A printhead for a printer in which a print medium advances in a media advance direction, said printhead being static when printing and having an adjustable length in a width direction that is perpendicular to said media advance direction, such that the length of the pri... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090315933 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS An ink jet recording apparatus includes a sub scanning driving unit which carries a recording medium in a sub scanning direction, a line-type ink jet recording head in which plural nozzles ejecting ink synchronously with the carrying of the recording medium by the sub s... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090251502 | Printing System Having Contolled Multi-Length Printhead ICS printing system is provided which has a plurality of printhead integrated circuits of different lengths and a controller configured to supply print data to the printhead integrated circuits. The printhead integrated circuits are arranged to define a pagewidth printhead ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090244142 | Water Based Ink For Ink-Jet Recording, Ink Cartridge, Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus, Method of Evaluating Water-Based Ink for Ink-Jet Recording, and Method of Producing Water-Based Ink for Ink-Jet Recording A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes a coloring agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. In the water-based ink after drying, a phase (δ) obtained by a tan δ measured at about 25° C. is constantly about 45 degrees or more. In other words, the ph... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090244141 | Orifice health detection device An orifice health detection device includes a fixed array of ink ejecting orifices, the ink ejecting orifices configured to eject at least one ink drop, a light source that produces a light beam configured to scatter light from the at least one ejected ink drop, and a l... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090231368 | Inkjet head, method of detecting ejection abnormality of the inkjet head, and method of forming film There are provided n number of line-type inkjet nozzles (2) which include nozzles (4) that eject a liquid material and a rearranged in a row, and which are arranged in parallel with each other so that positions of the nozzles (4) are shifted from ea... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090213156 | Printing apparatus having line-type ink jet head and method of printing images by line-type ink jet head A printing apparatus is provided with a line-type ink jet head having a plurality of blocks on each of which a set of ink ejection elements are arranged. In the printing apparatus, a drive voltage signal is accompanied with a prepulse to be applied to each ink ejection ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090201328 | SELF-ALIGNED PRECISION DATUMS FOR ARRAY DIE PLACEMENT A method and resulting device for accurately positioning an array of die modules in an imaging array, including larger partial width arrays and full page width arrays, is described herein. The method includes forming physical reference datum directly on an individual si... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090189937 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a carriage on which a recording head is mounted that has a nozzle array where plural nozzles for ejecting droplets are arranged, the carriage being configured to be moved in a direction orthogonal to a nozzle arrangement dire... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090128593 | PRINTERS AND PRINTHEAD CLEANING PRIMARILY IN PAGE-WIDE ARRAY PRINTERS A method of printing on a substrate and a printer are provided. The method uses a printer comprising a print head and a mask having a hole therethrough, the mask being disposed between the print head and the substrate, and comprises aligning the hole with the print head... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090092761 | DISCHARGE METHOD, CONTINUOUS FILM FORMATION METHOD, ALIGNMENT FILM FORMATION METHOD, METHOD FOR FORMING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, HEAD UNIT, DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A discharge method is provided for discharging a fluid from nozzle sets having nozzles arrayed between first and second end portions. The method includes classifying each of the nozzle sets into one of a first nozzle group having a distribution characteristic in which a... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090051719 | Maintenance method for discharging head, maintenance device for discharging head, droplet discharging apparatus, discharging head, and computer program A maintenance method is provided for a discharging head in which multiple discharging portions are arranged in line. The maintenance method includes the steps of performing an operation of continuously discharging droplets from one discharging portion or a plurality of ... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090033701 | PRINTHEAD WITH MULTIPLE NOZZLES SHARING SINGLE NOZZLE DATA An inkjet printhead for use in a printer so that it can print onto a substrate at different print resolutions. The inkjet printhead has an array of nozzles, each nozzle having an ejection aperture and a corresponding actuator for ejecting printing fluid through the ejec... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090015614 | INK JET PRINT HEAD, INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INK JET PRINT HEAD The present invention is able to print high-grade images by reducing the adverse effect of misdirection of ink in the joining portion between adjacent nozzle lines. To achieve this, an ink jet print head includes a plurality of chips in each of which adjacent nozzle lin... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090002419 | PRINTER HAVING SELF-REFERENCING PRINTHEAD An inkjet printer having a body configured to receive a printhead assembly of at least one printhead integrated circuit having ink ejection nozzles and an ink distribution support mounting the integrated circuit(s) to distribute ink to the nozzles, and a plurality of mo... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080259106 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PATTERNED LAYER ON SUBSTRATE A method for manufacturing a patterned layer (106) on a substrate (100) includes the following steps: providing a substrate having a plurality of banks (102) formed thereon, the substrate and the banks cooperatively defining a plurality of accommoda... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080246789 | INKJET PRINTER HAVING SWITCHED FIRING OF ADJACENT NOZZLES APPLYING COMMON COLOR A printing system includes a printhead having adjacent inkjet nozzles for dispensing a common colored ink and a controller adapted to direct firing of the adjacent inkjet nozzles so that adjacent local areas using the common colored ink are printed on a printing medium ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080246790 | Printer Having Controller For Offset Nozzles Of Printhead IC A printer is provided which has a printhead integrated circuit having a row of aligned printhead nozzles and a controller for supplying data to the printhead integrated circuit. A sequential group of the nozzles at one end of the printhead integrated circuit are offset ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080180475 | Multipass Printing A multi-pass printing system and a corresponding method are provided for printing an image, which includes a plurality of continuous-tone values, based on halftone matrices having threshold values. The printed image is composed of sub-images, each of which includes dots... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080170095 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INK JETTING METHOD THEREOF An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of head chips which comprise a plurality of nozzles to jet ink to a print medium according to print data, and a controller which compares jetting gaps of the head chips to the print medium with a reference jetting gap and ... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080150988 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image forming apparatus includes an array head part which includes a plurality of printer heads arranged to have a head gap and to print a line of print data, a partition part to partition the line of print data into predetermined sections based on a number of nozzle... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080150986 | Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes: a first liquid droplet ejecting head that is formed by joining together plural units at which nozzles that eject liquid droplets are two-dimensionally arranged; and a second liquid droplet ejecting head that is formed by joi... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080117243 | Printer Contoller With Equalised Data Supply Rate To Multi-Color Printhead ICS A printer controller for supplying print data to a pagewidth printhead is provided. The printhead has a plurality of printhead integrated circuits of different lengths arranged across the pagewidth to define the pagewidth printhead having rows of printing nozzles formed... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080111844 | PRINTER CONTROLLER FOR SEQUENCED PRINTHEAD NOZZLE FIRING A printer controller is provided for supplying one or more control signals to a printhead module. The printhead module includes at least one row that has a plurality of adjacent sets of n−1 adjacent nozzles. Each of the nozzles is configured to expel ink in response t... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080084441 | Printhead IC with multiple temperature sensors A printhead IC comprising: an array of nozzles having a plurality of adjacent regions; and, drive circuitry for sending an electrical pulse to each of the nozzles individually such that they eject a drop of printing fluid; and, a plurality of temperature sensors for sen... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080079761 | Droplet ejection device, droplet ejection device control method and storage medium storing droplet ejection device control program The present invention provides a droplet ejection device that includes a head, a storage component and an alteration component. At the head, a plurality of nozzles, which eject droplets in accordance with image data representing an image, are arrayed over a width in a m... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080074452 | Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line h... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080068413 | PAGE WIDTH IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus and method, the apparatus including: a paper feeding unit to supply a print medium in a first direction; a line head unit comprising a nozzle unit including a plurality of nozzles; a head supporting unit to shift the line head unit in a second... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080068414 | Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line h... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080068415 | Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line h... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080024536 | Image forming apparatus, liquid discharging head, image forming method, recorded matter, and recording liquid A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a line-type liquid discharging head including nozzles configured to jet liquid droplets. The nozzles are aligned in a sheet width direction. The line-type liquid discharging head includes plural nozzle rows each including an ... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080018688 | Printhead Firing Pattern Method A method is provided for firing nozzles in a pagewidth inkjet printhead. The nozzles share a common ink reservoir and are arranged in rows. The method includes the step of firing all of the nozzles in a first row prior to firing any of the nozzles in another row. Typica... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20080012894 | Ink-jet recording apparatus The ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a conveyer that conveys a recording medium; a recording head that ejects an ink and a processing solution; an ejection controller that controls ejection of the ink and the processing solution from the recording head; and a doubl... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080007582 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH OVERLAPPING SEGMENTS AND TEMPERATURE SENSORS An inkjet printhead has a pair of adjacent printhead segments having overlapping ink ejection nozzles, with degrees of overlap of said printhead segments corresponding with predetermined temperatures. A pair of temperature sensors is on respective printhead segments so ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070285452 | WIDE FORMAT PRINT ASSEMBLY HAVING HIGH SPEED PRINTHEAD A print assembly is provided having an elongate carrier that is mountable on a support structure of a printer, printhead integrated circuits mounted on the carrier, and control circuitry positioned on the carrier and operatively connected to the printhead integrated cir... | 12/13/2007 |
