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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7073727 | Discharge device, control method thereof, discharge method, method for manufacturing microlens array, and method for manufacturing electrooptic device The invention provides a discharge device which forms microlenses, etc., with high precision. A switch circuit selects a predetermined one of drive pulses included in a drive signal on the basis of waveform selection data obtained from a control device, and applies ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072076 | Printing method using PC rendering It is necessary that paper be moved past the printhead at a constant velocity to obtain artifact—free printing. Therefore the printhead requires a constant stream of data during printing. Whilst it is possible to rasterize the page using a page description languag... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070346 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, printer, printing method, and program therefor The image processing apparatus of the invention determines dot on-off state of respective pixels to create dots at a preset density corresponding to a tone value of image data and outputs data representing positions of dots to be created as control data to a printer... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 performance. When firing conditions are not critical for printing performance, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 associated with the conventional technique. The random values may be ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 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 printhead across the scan line at a first velocity; printing on the ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055921 | Method for driving liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus Disclosed is a method for driving a liquid-jet head comprising a passage-forming substrate in which pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzle orifices are formed; and a piezoelectric element provided on one surface of the passage-forming substrate via a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7056798 | Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, and liquid jet apparatus A semiconductor device in which electro-thermal conversion elements and switching devices for flowing currents through the elements are integrated on a first conductive type semiconductor substrate. The switching devices are insulated gate type field effect transist... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055923 | Recording head, substrate for use of recording head, and recording apparatus A recording head comprises a plurality of recording elements for performing recording; a driving circuit for driving the plurality of recording elements; and a predetermined voltage generating circuit for generating a predetermined voltage to be applied to the plura... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054708 | Sheet material cutting system and methods regarding same A system and/or method for cutting designs of text and/or shapes out of sheet material, such as paper, vellum, and other materials used in, for example, the scrapbooking and card making industries. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052191 | Printing apparatus There is provided a printing apparatus capable of printing input data in proper adaptation to plural types of printing data input units and environments of use. For this purpose, the type of an input unit is first recognized. For example, when it is recognized that ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 and/or at an average hitting speed of 2 m/sec or more, the ink composi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048356 | Method and apparatus for ink jet printing A method and apparatus for ink jet printing enables a high grade image with the reduced ununiformity of colors to be inexpensively printed. A scan of a print head is executed to apply a reacting liquid to a print medium so that the number of reacting liquid dots imp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046393 | Color space transformation with black preservation for open color management An open color management system allows any of a plurality of input color devices to share data with any of a plurality of output color devices. The color management system includes a networked connection space for input and output device communication, an input colo... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044574 | Method and apparatus for generating and assigning a cartridge identification number to an imaging cartridge An imaging system includes an imaging cartridge, a first memory associated with the imaging cartridge, and a controller communicatively coupled to the first memory. The controller executes program instructions for performing the steps of generating a generated cartr... | 05/16/2006 |
| 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 printing command, and a power off signal to turn off the printer power suppl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042484 | Scan line length adjustment In one embodiment, the present invention provides a scan line controller for use with a laser scanning device. The scan line controller includes a pulse width modulator system to receive a pulse code, including a first pulse width modulator to receive a first dot cl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040822 | Portable printing system A portable label printing system for printing on a variety of materials is disclosed. A retractable platen roller cooperates with a self-aligning print head in three planes cooperates for proper label printing registration. A display screen allows the user to view p... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039263 | Electrooptic assembly An electrooptic assembly including a microelectronic package and an optical substrate, wherein the optical substrate includes a coupler and a waveguide. An electrooptic element is disposed to convert an electrical signal from the microelectronic package to an optica... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038260 | Dual gate structure for a FET and method for fabricating same A method for fabricating a dual gate structure for JFETs and MESFETs and the associated devices. Trenches are etched in a semiconductor substrate for fabrication of a gate structure for a JFET or MESFET. A sidewall spacer may be formed on the walls of the trenches t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036914 | Fluid ejection device with fire cells A dynamic memory based integrated circuit ink jet firing cell that includes a heater resistor, a drive transistor, and a dynamic memory circuit for storing firing data only for such heater resistor. Also disclosed is an integrated circuit firing array that includes ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 the printer are transmitted to a second electronics module of the pr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 that are not required for printing the image and to implement an element... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 same time is changed depending upon the print data, the timing at which... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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) geometry, nozzle spacing, number of nozzles, head movement (number of p... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032988 | Certified proofing A certified proofing method is disclosed that includes receiving a printable sheet and automatically detecting at least one feature of at least one component of a proofing process bearing on its quality. The method also includes automatically evaluating at least one... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 printhead determines a regulation band of the power regulator defined... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029081 | Head substrate having data memory, printing head, printing apparatus and producing method therefor There is disclosed a head substrate of a printing head detachably mounted on a printer main body, comprising plural external connection terminals individually receiving, from the exterior, a binary logic signal corresponding to whether or not to execute a recording ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 fire signal to generate fire signals, each having a series of fire pu... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 apart by a distance “x” in a slow scan direction and there is a first... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 modules and controller modules are arranged end on end and a printhead ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021754 | Ink-jet recording method The present invention relates to an ink-jet recording method including: jetting an active ray-hardenable ink from an ink-jet head onto a recording material; irradiating the jetted active ray-hardenable ink on the recording material with an active ray; and heating th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021733 | Ink jet apparatus A drop emitting device that includes a drop generator and a drive signal waveform that includes in sequence a pulse of a first polarity, a first pulse of a second polarity, a delay interval, and a second pulse of the second polarity. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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 second set of one or more nozzles to form a second image pattern at least ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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 201a and nozzle profile data 211. The printer driver software 201a includes a raster image processor (RIP) 203. When the RIP 2... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014289 | Image forming device A head (101) prints a predetermined test pattern under the control of a head control unit (204) in order to precisely detect a head deviation when a head has been changed, the printed test pattern is read by a sensor 110 and detected by a pattern detec... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014286 | Liquid jetting apparatus A liquid jetting apparatus of the invention uses a liquid container having a liquid chamber that contains liquid and a storing part that stores information about a time when the liquid container was manufactured. The liquid jetting apparatus includes a container-set... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013806 | Method and apparatus for applying a film of developer fluid onto a lithographic printing plate in a developing station The invention relates to the development of lithographic printing plates and comprises the application of a thin film of developer solution to each plate in a controlled manner using a jetting printhead. Sensors and control means activate and deactivate the jetting ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7011391 | 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 changing unit for changing an order of applications of the inks of dif... | 03/14/2006 |
