Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 12/05

20050285884 - Network-based information recording/reproducing system, information transmission destination retrieval method, and information recording/reproducing apparatus: Disclosed is a network-based information recording/reproducing system, in which a first information recording/reproducing apparatus being a sender of an information transmits an information transfer request information containing a transaction ID to all the information recording/reproducing apparatus(es) connected via a network except the first apparatus itself; out of the information recording/reproducing...

20050285885 - Organic electroluminescent printer: An organic EL printer includes an EL panel provided with red, green and blue light-emitting portions arranged in the form of a matrix to illuminate a photosensitive recording medium that is moved relative to the panel in the secondary scanning direction by one pitch distance in one pitch feed time....

20050285886 - Liquid supplying method: A liquid-supplying method includes the steps of controlling a magnitude of negative pressure generated by a negative-pressure generating member provided in each of first liquid-tank components included in a first liquid tank such that the magnitude of the negative pressure generated during a liquid-supply operation is greater than that in...

20050285889 - System with alignment information: A system includes a carrier, one or more printheads coupled with the carrier in a defined spatial relation, and alignment information associated with the carrier and identifying the defined spatial relation of one or more printheads....

20050285887 - Systems and methods for determining printhead in a print position: A system and method for sensing the positioning the printhead in one or more of a standby position, a wipe position, and a printing position uses electrical signals from a drive motor as an indicator of whether the printhead has properly moved to a desired position. As the printhead is...

20050285888 - Systems and methods for determining printhead in a standby position: A system and method for determining proper positioning of the printhead as it travels between first and second positions by sampling an electrical resistance signal of a motor during tilting of the printhead, calculating an average of specified samples at a time, and comparing the calculated average to a predetermined...

20050285890 - Dot management for an imaging apparatus: A method for performing drop placement by an imaging apparatus utilizing diluted color inks and full strength color inks includes defining a matrix that identifies all possible drop locations at an output resolution; defining primary drop locations in the matrix for at least one color based on predefined criteria, the...

20050285891 - Method of correcting neutral color shifts caused by cartridge variations: A method for correcting neutral color shift in a production cartridge for use in an imaging system includes determining a colorant increment data based on a standard cartridge neutral variation signature color data and a standard cartridge neutral sensitivity signature color data associated with a standard cartridge, and based on...

20050285892 - Tube pump and liquid ejection apparatus: A flexible tube has a first portion and a second portion located close to each other in the vicinity of an opening of an accommodating case. A pressing member moves from the first portion to the second portion along the tube while pressing a portion of the tube. An assistant...

20050285893 - Nozzle cleaning device for an ink jet printer: A nozzle cleaning device for an ink jet printer containing a plurality of ink reservoirs, the cleaning device including a pressure source and a valve mechanism for selectively coupling the pressure source to the ink reservoirs, wherein the valve mechanism comprises a valve housing, and a piston movable within the...

20050285894 - Ink jet printer, method for controlling an ink jet printer, and computer program product for an ink jet printer: An ink jet printer is provided with an ink jet head that executes a printing action in which ink is discharged toward a print medium, a transportation device that transports the print medium, and a controller that controls the ink jet head to execute the printing action. The controller controls...

20050285895 - Mechanical lock mechanism for locking wiper/printhead: A locking mechanism in an image processing device is needed to lock a movable element of the image processing device. In embodiments, the locking mechanism has a support member disposed between the driving element and the movable element, the support member being movable between a first position and a second...

20050285896 - Ejection head, image forming apparatus and image forming method: The ejection head comprises: n (where n is an integer not less than 2) pieces of ejection aperture groups arranged in a sub-scanning direction, each of the groups including ejection aperture rows arranged at prescribed intervals in a main scanning direction, each of the ejection aperture rows including a plurality...

20050285898 - Apparatus and method for ink jet printing using variable interlacing: The invention provides an apparatus and method for printing an image using the printhead of an ink jet printer. The printhead ejects ink drops on a print medium in a series of scanning passes, and different addressing patterns are selected in each scanning pass to address ink drop locations for...

20050285897 - Ink jet printing using elongated pixels: An ink jet or other printer serves to print for each row of input pixels, two superimposed rows of contiguous “super pixels,” each print pixel being capable of receiving print contributions from N super pixels. The super pixels are twice the width of the input pixels and one row of...

20050285899 - Consumable resource option control: A consumable resource option control unit includes a consumable resource and an option key coupled to the consumable resource. The option key is configured to enable an optional mode of operation for an image-forming device and to cause a display associated with an image-forming device to indicate availability of the...

20050285900 - Release mechanism for facilitating supply cartridge installation and removal: A printhead carrier includes a body defining a receptacle for receiving a supply cartridge. The body includes a front portion, and a rear portion spaced from the front portion. The rear portion has a latch opening. A cover is provided having a first end configured for pivotal attachment to the...

20050285901 - Ink jet nozzle geometry selection by laser ablation of thin walls: A novel method of fabricating the channel ends of an ink jet printhead: lithographically fabricating channels in photopolymer having the channel end blocked by a thin layer of photopolymer; sandwiching the photopolymer between two parallel substrates, one of which has an actuator for each channel; dicing through the substrates on...

20050285902 - Electrostatic actuator with segmented electrode: An electrostatic actuator includes a segmented flexible membrane associated with individually addressable electrodes, one for each membrane segment. The electrodes are provided beneath a corresponding one of the membrane segments to define a plurality of actuator chambers between each of the electrodes and the corresponding membrane segment. Control electronics independently...

20050285903 - Inkjet recording head and inkjet recording device: An inkjet recording head having: a nozzle ejecting ink drops; a pressure chamber which communicates with the nozzle and in which ink is filled; a vibrating plate structuring a portion of the pressure chamber; an ink pooling chamber pooling ink to be supplied to the pressure chamber via an ink...

20050285904 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus usable therewith: A liquid ejecting head for ejection liquid, includes electric wiring member including a plurality of contact pads which are electrically contactable to a liquid ejecting apparatus; a storing element for storing individual information; a liquid ejection member, provided with an ejection outlet for ejecting the liquid, for ejecting the liquid...

20050285905 - Ink jet recording head producing method, ink jet recording head, and substrate for ink jet recording head: An ink jet head includes a substrate having a flow path construction member constructing a plurality of discharge ports for discharging ink and a plurality of ink flow paths corresponding thereto, and a plurality of energy generating elements corresponding to the plurality of discharge ports. The substrate has an ink...

20050285906 - Fluid injection device: A fluid injection device. The device includes a substrate, a structural layer formed thereon, a manifold installed in the substrate to supply fluid, a plurality of chambers with the same length formed between the substrate and the structural layer to hold injected fluid, and a plurality of nozzles through the...

20050285907 - Ink jet head having channel damper and method of fabricating the same: An ink jet head having a channel damper, and a method of fabricating the same. The ink jet head includes a heat-generating resistor disposed on a substrate to generate pressure for ink ejection, a chamber layer disposed on the substrate to enclose the heat-generating resistor and having a first height...

20050285908 - Inkjet system, method of making this system, and use of said system: An inkjet system including a printhead with an ink-fillable chamber operatively connected to a piezoelectric actuator and provided with a nozzle for the ejection of ink drops in response to the energization of the actuator, which actuator is connected to a measuring circuit for measuring an electrical signal generated by...

20050285909 - Liquid droplet ejecting head and liquid droplet ejecting apparatus: A liquid droplet ejecting head is disclosed which includes: a nozzle that ejects a liquid droplet; a pressure chamber that is communicated with the nozzle and in which a liquid is filled; a vibrating plate that forms a portion of the pressure chamber; an ink pooling chamber that pools a...

20050285910 - Droplet ejecting head: A droplet ejecting head including a nozzle plate having nozzle holes each ejecting a droplet and comprising: a jetting end open at a first surface of the plate; an inflow end open at a second surface of the plate; a taper portion between the jetting end and a vicinity of...

20050285911 - Liquid delivering device: A liquid delivering device including: a flow passage unit having a plurality of pressure chambers each of which communicating with a liquid ejection port; a piezoelectric actuator for selectively changing the volume of the plurality of pressure chambers, the piezoelectric actuator including a plurality of individual electrodes corresponding to the...

20050285912 - Latency stirring in fluid ejection mechanisms: A liquid drop emitter, a method of mixing a liquid, and a method of printing are provided. The liquid emitter includes a structure defining a chamber adapted to provide a liquid having an orifice through which a drop of the liquid can be emitted. A drop forming mechanism is operatively...

20050285915 - Buffer tank for inkjet printer, and inkjet printer: A buffer tank for use in an inkjet printer wherein the buffer tank is located between one or more ink storage tanks which store one or more sorts of ink, and one or more inkjet recording heads which eject the one or more inks toward a recording medium and thereby...

20050285913 - Liquid injection apparatus and method for driving the same: A liquid ejection apparatus comprises a liquid cartridge for storing a liquid, a liquid ejection head for ejecting the liquid toward a target, a liquid supply path for guiding the liquid to the liquid ejection head from the liquid cartridge, and a capping device for drawing the liquid from the...

20050285914 - Method of filling ink cartridge with ink: A method of filling an ink cartridge with ink, the ink cartridge being to be mounted on a main body of a recording apparatus and including: a casing in which is formed an ink chamber for accommodating ink; and at least one valve member which is disposed on one side...

20050285916 - Method for producing ink-jet recording head, ink-jet recording head, substrate for recording head, and ink-jet cartridge: In a method for producing an ink-jet recording head, a plurality of through-holes is formed in a heat storage layer formed on one surface of a silicon substrate, subsequently, heating elements are formed, and a protective layer is formed on the substrate. A passage-forming member forming discharge ports and ink...

20050285917 - Apparatus and method for waste ink disposal in solid ink jet printer: A method for disposing of waste ink from an image producing machine (10) is provided. The machine (10) includes a printhead (32) that ejects ink in its liquid form from a face (32a) of the printhead (32), the ink being phase change ink existing in liquid form above a melting...

20050285919 - Methods and apparatus for image transfer: A method and apparatus for imprinting high quality images on non-planar surfaces, including the surfaces of various types of three-dimensional articles, such as baseball bats, formed from a number of different types of materials. In the preferred method of the invention, the non-planar surfaces of the three-dimensional articles are printed...

20050285918 - Multiple pass aqueous micr inkjet ink printing: The invention relates to a multiple pass printing process for generating MICR-readable indicia using a MICR ink-jet ink composition with a magnetic pigment loading less than that needed to generate the nominal signal level according to the ANSI standard with single pass printing, and to a printed substrate, prepared by...

20050285920 - Ink-jet printed rigid interlayer and a process for preparing same: The present invention is a decorative glass laminate comprising a rigid interlayer bearing a printed image that has been ink-jetted onto at least one of the interlayer surfaces, and a process for preparing same. The interlayer has a storage young's modulus of 50-1000 Mla at 0.3 Hz and 25C, as...

20050285921 - Method of confining droplets of display fluid: An improved method of forming a display is described. The method describes depositing droplets of a display fluid into a sealing solution. The sealing solution seals the droplets of display fluid such that each droplet forms a miniature cell of display fluid. Electrodes address charged particles in the miniature cells...

20050285922 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of synthesizing a full color image without causing deviations of color layers: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a sensor, and two image forming units. Each of the image forming units includes an image carrier, an image writer, two development rollers, and a switcher. The image writer writes an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier. Each of the...

20050285924 - Thermal print head having memory for storing resistance value of heater and image forming apparatus including the thermal print head: Provided is a thermal print head having a memory for storing resistance values of heaters to compensate for an energy drift of the thermal print head. The thermal print head includes a plurality of heaters for applying heat to a medium. A heater driving unit drives the heaters according to...

20050285923 - Thermal processor employing varying roller spacing: A thermal processor for thermally developing an image in an imaging material. The thermal processor includes an oven and a plurality of rollers positioned to form a transport path and, through contact with the imaging material, configured to move the imaging material through the oven along the transport path. Each...

20050285925 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer includes a platen roller having both ends supported by a frame, a line thermal head having a plurality of heater elements and coming into contact with and separating from the platen roller, and a head mount supporting the line thermal head. The line thermal head has a...

20050285926 - Light source assembly, method of producing light source assembly, and color thermal printer: A color thermal printer includes a light source assembly for photo fixation of thermosensitive recording material. Element arrays of plural LEDs emit fixing light in a prescribed wavelength range. Each one lens passes the fixing light from one of the LEDs toward a front. A ring or loop-shaped ridge is...

20050285927 - Image forming device and an exposure member for the device: The present invention relates to an image-forming device for processing photosensitive media. The photosensitive media is of the type that includes microcapsules that encapsulate imaging material such as coloring material. The image-forming device includes an exposure member that includes a digital projector that is adapted to simultaneously expose the full...

20050285928 - Optical pattern generator using a single rotating component: An optical pattern generator uses a single rotating component. The rotating component includes a number of deflection sectors. Each sector deflects an incident optical beam by a substantially constant angular amount although this amount may vary from one sector to the next. The rotating component may be combined with an...

20050285929 - Optical device: The invention comprises a laser beam source that emits a laser beam; a reflecting means that has a plurality of reflecting members and reflects the laser beam emitted from said laser beam source; a deflecting and scanning means that deflects and scans with the laser beam reflected by said reflecting...

20050285930 - Inner drum exposure apparatus: An inner drum exposure apparatus is disclosed in which a linearly polarized light beam emitted from a light source is converted to circularly polarized light. This in turn is passed through a single-axis crystal optical element so as to be split into equal light quantities of an ordinary ray and...

20050280664 - Electric turbine: An electric turbine includes a fan with a plurality of blades each with a tip having a permanent magnet positioned in the tip. The fan is mounted for rotation about an axis with the blades extending radially outwardly from the axis of rotation and with the tips adjacent an outer...

20050280665 - Media-position sensor system: A printer device comprising a mechanism adapted to generate an image on an image surface, the device comprising a sensor adapted to image a predetermined optical object located substantially on the image surface, the device being adapted to determine at least one dimension of the object's image and thereby determine...

20050280666 - Inkjet head and methods of fabricating and exchanging the same: Inkjet heads and methods of fabricating and exchanging the same. The inkjet head includes a substrate having a liquid supply hole; a nozzle plate disposed on an upper surface and provided with a nozzle hole to eject the liquid; a fluid channel forming layer disposed between the substrate and the...

20050280667 - Inkjet printhead device having nozzle guard and ink containment formations: An inkjet printhead device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink passages. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with at least one respective ink passage...

20050280669 - Ink jet recording head, ink jet cartridge comprising recording head, and method for refilling ink jet cartridge with ink: An ink jet recording head includes three sets of nozzle arrays each having a large nozzle array including a first ejection outlet group and an adjacent small nozzle array including a second ejection outlet group. The ejection outlets of the second ejection outlet group have smaller diameters than those of...

20050280668 - Printing up to edge of printing paper without platen soiling: Using a printer having a recessed portion, printing up to the edge of printing paper is performed without depositing ink drops on the platen. Printing paper P is advanced by upstream paper feed rollers 25a, 25b, and when its leading edge Pf reaches the opening of a downstream recessed portion...

20050280670 - Inkjet printhead: An inkjet print-head architecture, mainly comprises nozzle, heater plates, a chamber and an inlet hole, wherein, the nozzle is arranged inside the chamber for ejecting the ink therefrom, the heater plates are arranged in the chamber for heating the ink in the chamber to be ejected from the nozzle, and...

20050280671 - Printhead heaters with short pulse time: A thermal inkjet printhead with heater elements disposed in respective bubble forming chambers whereby each heater element is configured for receiving an energizing pulse to form a gas bubble in an ejectable liquid that causes the ejection of a drop of the ejectable liquid from the nozzle. The energizing pulse...

20050280672 - Printhead nozzle with reduced ink inertia and viscous drag: A thermal inkjet printhead with heater elements disposed in respective bubble forming chambers for heating part of the ejectable liquid above its boiling point to form a gas bubble that causes the ejection of a drop of the ejectable liquid from the nozzle, wherein, the heater is separated from the...

20050280673 - Liquid ejection head: A liquid ejection head can eject very fine droplets of the order of sub-picoliter. The liquid ejection head is provided with an ejection port 3 for ejecting liquid as liquid droplets and comprises an energy generating element 1 arranged vis-à-vis the ejection port 3 to generate ejection energy to be...

20050280674 - Process for modifying the surface profile of an ink supply channel in a printhead: A process for modifying the surface profile of an ink supply channel in a printhead is provided. The process comprises the steps of providing a printhead comprising ink supply channels, and ion milling the ink supply channel. The ion milling is generally performed with argon and tends to taper and/or...

20050280675 - Printhead: Ink jet printheads and printhead components are described....

20050280676 - System and method for auto-threshold adjustment for phasing: Certain embodiments provide a system and method for auto-threshold adjustment using a continuous ink jet printer. An embodiment of a system includes a nozzle for producing ink drops from an ink stream, a sensor positioned with respect to the nozzle for measuring charge from the ink drops to generate a...

20050280677 - High voltage arm assembly with integrated resistor, automatic high voltage deflection electrode locator, and special insulation: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a deflection electrode assembly is provided for use in a continuous ink jet printer of the type which projects a stream of ink drops toward a substrate and controls placement of the ink drops on the substrate by selectively charging the individual...

20050280678 - Droplet ejection apparatus alignment: In general, in a first aspect, the invention features assemblies for mounting a printhead module in an apparatus for depositing droplets on a substrate. The assemblies include a frame having an opening extending through the frame and configured to expose a surface of the printhead module mounted in the assembly,...

20050280679 - Ink cartridge and printer using the same: An ink cartridge of the present invention has a storage element, in which plural pieces of specific information relating to an ink cartridge are stored at specific addresses that respectively occupy minimum bits required for storage. Namely the storage capacities required for storing the respective pieces of specific information are...

20050280680 - Air management in a fluid ejection device: One exemplary fluid ejection device includes a substrate having one or more layers positioned thereon. The fluid ejection device also includes a fluid-feed path extending through a space which is defined, at least in part, by the one or more layers. The fluid ejection device including methods and structures for...

20050280681 - Heat treatment apparatus: Provided is a heat treatment apparatus. The heat treatment apparatus includes a heating plate including a heater; a chamber case including a cooling chamber, and coupled to a lower portion of the heating plate; and at least one atomizing unit installed on the chamber case to generate liquid droplet aerosol...

20050280682 - Image heating apparatus and heater therefor: The n image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, includes a heater including a substrate, and plural heat generating resistors formed on the substrate along a longitudinal direction thereof, and plural switching elements connected electrically between a power source and the plural heat generating resistors,...

20050280683 - Ultraviolet light-emitting diode device: A UV LED device may be used for curing fluids. In one embodiment, LEDs are positioned on faces defined by an inverted recess in a base portion. The LEDs are configured such that the light beams emitted from the LEDs converge at a single area or point to provide a...

20050280685 - Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus: If a plurality of print jobs is received irregularly, this invention makes it possible to perform a proper double-sided printing on a print medium. The printing apparatus of this invention comprises: print medium transport unit; printing means; discharge unit for discharging the print medium from the transport path; and double-sided...

20050280684 - Recording apparatus: Provided is a recording apparatus in which a recording medium is fed from one side of the recording apparatus, and the recording medium that has recorded is discharged from the one side of the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus being capable of making its size when not in use smaller...

20050280686 - Signaling blank label: A label including a main section forming a blank label section and including a fluorescent signal section on the blank label section. The label is adapted to have an indicium subsequently printed on the blank label section by a printing device without the fluorescent signal section substantially interfering with reading...

20050280687 - Sheet-type detection device: A reading sensor has first and second detection regions. The first detection region has high directivity and detects a thickness of a recording sheet. The second detection region has low directivity and detects a surface roughness of the recording sheet. The material type of the recording sheet is determined based...

20050280688 - Liquid ejection head and method of manufacturing solution guide: Provided is a liquid ejection head for electrostatic ink jet capable of ejecting ink droplets at a low voltage and at high speed. The liquid ejection head includes: an ejection substrate in which ejection openings are formed; ejection electrodes that respectively correspond to the ejection openings; and solution guides that...

20050280689 - Flat bed thermal processor employing heated rollers: A thermal processor for thermally developing an image in an imaging material. The thermal processor includes an oven and a plurality of rotatable members. The plurality of rotatable members are positioned to form a transport path, and through contact with the imaging material, are configured to move the imaging material...

20050280690 - Thermal processor employing a drive band: A thermal processor for thermally developing an image in an imaging material. The thermal processor includes an oven, a plurality of rollers, and a drive band. The rollers each have an outer surface, and are positioned such that the outer surfaces contact an imaging material and form a transport path...

20050280691 - Printer: In a printer that forms an image on a color thermal recording paper by using a thermal recording head, a preheating region of the recording paper that is used for preheating the thermal recording head in a process prior to formation of the image and disposed of as a cut...

20050280692 - Image forming apparatus for double-sided printing and method of using the same: An image forming apparatus includes a printing module that prints an image on a medium. A transfer unit transfers the medium. A rotating unit rotates the transfer unit such that first and second surfaces of the medium selectively face the printing module when the medium is pinched in the transfer...

20050280693 - Multi-beam optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: Provided is a multi-beam optical scanning apparatus, which is capable of reducing an inter-light-beams illuminance difference at the same image height on a surface to be scanned and forming a high-definition and high-quality image where no unevenness in density of image exists, and an image forming apparatus using the multi-beam...

20050280695 - Exposure device, printing apparatus employing an exposure device and method for adjusting a non-impact printing apparatus: An exposure device for a non-impact printing apparatus which includes a plurality of light-emitting elements for forming images, driver means for individually applying energy output levels to the light-emitting elements, lens means for focussing the light emitted by the light-emitting elements, storage means for storing a list of setting values...

20050280694 - Line head and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: At least one light emission array includes a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed in a first direction. Each of the light emitting elements is an organic electroluminescence element. A monitor quantitatively monitors a light emitting state of at least one of the light emitting elements to obtain a monitored...

20050280696 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: where f is the focal length of the imaging optical system in a main scanning direction, Sk is the distance in the main scanning section from the rear principal plane position of the imaging optical system to an imaging point of the converged light beam, α and β are angles...

20050280697 - Polarization-direction-controlling element and exposure device: A polarization-direction-controlling element comprising a ½ wavelength plate disposed with a crystal optical axis tilted at substantially 45 degrees with respect to a polarization direction of a beam of light separated by a polarization-separating element with a part of a laser beam transmitted, is provided on the optical path of...

20050280698 - Printer for recording on a moving medium: A method for forming a pixel (20) having a predetermined density onto a sensitized recording medium moving in a length direction energizes a pixel exposure source (14) to begin exposure at the leading edge (34) of a pixel (20) and for a first predetermined time interval. The pixel exposure source...

20050280699 - Laser scanner having reduced air currents: A method for improving the operation of an electrophotographic printer. The method includes providing an electrophotographic printer containing a laser scanning unit. A torsion oscillator for the laser scanning unit is enclosed in closed compartment. The closed compartment includes side walls having first and second side wall edges, a bottom...

20050275670 - Method and apparatus for precise marking and placement of an object: The present invention provides a precise marking apparatus for performing precise marking on an object and methods of using the same. The precise marking apparatus comprises an object input handler and an object output handler for handling the object; a transport system for transporting the object handlers during a marking...

20050275671 - Duct connecting structure: A plurality of cylindrical port defining portions project from a passage defining member defining a plurality of passages. A supply line defining body defining a plurality of supply lines is formed of an elastic member. The supply line defining body includes a plurality of openings each communicating with a corresponding...

20050275672 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: An ink jet printing apparatus is provided which prevents a jam and a head-medium rubbing during a double-sided printing and which can reduce a time required for the printing. The standby time from when the printing on the first print surface of a print medium is completed until the printing...

20050275673 - Recording head and recording apparatus using the same: A recording head or the like having a voltage generating circuit which does not depend on a voltage fluctuation of a heater driving power source (first power source) is provided. The recording head has: a plurality of heaters connected to a power line VH as a heater driving power source;...

20050275674 - General serial interface system: A serial transmission control system accesses data based on status signal, includes a timing register for storing a predetermined times of a basic period width and a predetermined number of trigger times, a data buffer for storing data, a timing control state machine for outputting the status signal until receiving...

20050275675 - Printing with limited types of dots: The present invention provides a printing control method of generating print data to be supplied to a print unit to print. The print unit comprises a print head having a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of ejection drive elements for ejecting an ink from the plurality of nozzles, and...

20050275676 - Inkjet print head: Some embodiments of the present invention provide an inkjet print head having a housing defining an ink reservoir, a nozzle portion including a nozzle plate defining an ink chamber in fluid communication with the ink reservoir, and forming a fluid flow path between the ink chamber and the ink reservoir,...

20050275678 - Method and apparatus for selecting job control device profiles: A printing device contains a first native print job control profile and one or more non-native print job control profiles. The printing device receives a print job containing print job commands and compares the print job commands with the first native job control profile. If all the print job commands...

20050275677 - Reduction of color plane alignment error in a drum printer: An imaging system including a rotatable device configured for rotation, a memory including an error table having a plurality of error entries and a position detection apparatus coupled to the rotatable device, the position detection apparatus having at least one position sensor, the at least one position sensor producing a...

20050275679 - Removing gas from a printhead: A method of removing gas from a printhead that includes a plurality of orifices configured to receive ink from a supply conduit through passages extending from the supply conduit to the plurality of orifices. The plurality of orifices are sealed from external the printhead to restrict passage of fluid through...

20050275680 - Inkjet recording apparatus: There is provided an inkjet recording apparatus that reduces operations or time for preliminary discharge and reduces the influence of mist. A recovery mechanism portion is provided in which a slide member on which a cap is mounted is moved along cam surfaces following a movement of a carriage to...

20050275681 - Ink jet printing apparatus and preliminary ink ejection method: In a print head having arrays of large nozzles and small nozzles with different ink ejection volumes that are connected to a common ink chamber, the preliminary ejection operation is performed 29,000 times first on only the large nozzles at an ejection frequency of 10 kHz to discharge viscous or...

20050275682 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head member having a nozzle and a liquid-ejecting unit; a main controlling part that drives the liquid-ejecting unit based on ejecting data; a capping member relatively movable between a position away from the head member and a position in contact with the head member;...

20050275683 - Preliminary ejection method and ink jet printing apparatus: In an ink jet printer in which preliminary ejection is performed onto printing paper, unnecessary ink consumption due to the preliminary ejection is suppressed. More specifically, the paper preliminary ejection is designed to be performed only for a printing head of cyan ink. Because for this cyan ink the longest...

20050275684 - Printing apparatus and printing method: This invention relates to a printing apparatus and printing method which can stably print at high image quality on print media of various sizes by using a full-line printhead. The printing method uses a full-line printhead which has a long printing width and is configured by arraying a plurality of...

20050275686 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: This invention prevents smear and boundary bleeding and allows for printing of black images such as black characters with high quality. For this purpose, an AND operation generates print Bk data by culling original Bk data. Based on the data culled by the AND operation, PCBk application data generation operation...

20050275687 - Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus: The image quality deterioration due to the collection of dots of low-lightness by the preliminary ejection is prevented, in the case of performing the ink ejection for preliminary ejection during the printing onto printing paper. More specifically, the preliminary ejection pattern is set as the pattern 1207, wherein the distance...

20050275685 - Self-dispersed inks for same orifice plate systems: Printer systems, self-dispersed black pigment ink formulations, and methods of printing, are disclosed. One exemplary printer system, among others, includes a dispensing system including a printhead. The printhead includes a self-dispersed black pigment in a first compartment fluidically communicating with an orifice plate and a first nozzle. In addition, the...

20050275688 - Liquid discharge apparatus, printer head, and method for making liquid discharge apparatus: A liquid discharge apparatus has liquid chambers and nozzles that discharge droplets of liquids contained in the liquid chambers through liquid channels. The liquid discharge apparatus includes a substrate provided with partitions on one face thereof, the liquid chambers and the liquid channels being defined between the partitions. The liquid...

20050275689 - Printhead assembly with ink delivery assembly carrying data and power board: A printhead assembly for an inkjet printer includes an elongate carrier. A number of printhead modules are mounted on the carrier. Each printhead module includes an ink delivery assembly and a printhead chip mounted on the ink delivery assembly. Flexible printed circuit board assemblies are attached to the carrier and...

20050275690 - Ink supply arrangement with improved ink flows: A portable inkjet printer comprises an elongate pagewidth printhead having a plurality of ink supply passages, an elongate pagewidth ink distribution manifold connected to the printhead and an elongate pagewidth ink supply unit connected to the manifold. The ink supply unit includes at least one storage chamber for holding ink...

20050275691 - Micro-electromechanical integrated circuit device and associated register and transistor circuitry: A micro-electromechanical integrated circuit includes a substrate. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of elongate actuators is fast at one end with the substrate. An opposite end of each elongate actuator is displaceable relative to the substrate on receipt of an electrical signal from the drive circuitry....

20050275692 - Ink jet recording head and method for manufacturing the same: In order to that stress generated within a resin can be suppressed and cracking in the resin can be prevented, an ink jet recording head comprising a substrate; a resin body, which defines an ink discharge section, formed on the substrate; and a heating resistor provided on the substrate, an...

20050275693 - Inkjet recording head: An inkjet recording head includes: nozzles that jet ink droplets; pressure chambers that communicate with the nozzles and contain ink; a diaphragm that configures part of the pressure chambers; an ink pool chamber that pools ink to be supplied to the pressure chambers via ink flow paths; and piezoelectric elements...

20050275694 - Inkjet recording head and inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording head is disclosed. In the inkjet recording head, a pressure chamber, in which ink is filled, communicates with a nozzle which ejects ink droplets. An ink pooling chamber communicates, via an ink flow path, with the pressure chamber. Ink is supplied from the ink pooling chamber through...

20050275695 - Method of manufacturing liquid droplet ejection head, liquid droplet ejection head, and liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A method of manufacturing a liquid droplet ejection head including nozzles that eject liquid droplets, pressure chambers that are communicated with the nozzles and filled with a liquid, a diaphragm that configures part of the pressure chambers, a pool chamber that pools the liquid supplied to the pressure chambers via...

20050275696 - Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric pump, ink jet recording head, ink jet printer, surface acoustic wave element, frequency filter, oscillator, electronic circuit, thin film piezoelectric resonator, and electronic apparatus: A piezoelectric element in accordance with the present invention includes a base substrate, and a piezoelectric film formed above the base substrate, wherein the piezoelectric film is composed of a plurality of layers, at least two layers among the plurality of layers are composed of different relaxor materials, and the...

20050275697 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge in which a space inside the ink cartridge is divided by a cylindrical bulkhead into two parts, a negative pressure generator chamber located inside the bulkhead and a liquid chamber located outside the bulkhead. The negative pressure generator chamber communicates with the atmosphere via an air intake...

20050275698 - Liquid container for ink jet recording apparatus: A liquid container includes a negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber accommodating a negative pressure producing member for absorbing and retaining the liquid, the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber having a supply port for supplying the liquid to liquid an ejection recording head and an air vent for fluid...

20050275699 - Method of filling ink cartridge, cartridge filler, jig, and ink supply system: A method of filling an ink cartridge which has (i) an ink supplying portion, (ii) an air introducing portion, (ii) a first valve member disposed in the ink supplying portion and biased in a biased direction that causes the first valve member to be placed in its closed position, and...

20050275700 - Latch release mechanism for printing apparatus components: A replacement component for printing operations that includes a recess that is adapted to be engaged by a projection of a replacement component holder associated with a printing apparatus to mount the replacement component to the replacement component holder, the replacement component also including an actuatable release adapted to operatively...

20050275701 - Water base ink for ink-jet recording: A water base ink for ink-jet recording includes carbon black as a coloring agent and water. The content of chlorine ion contained in the ink is not more than 8 ppm. The ink may be added with 1,2,3-benzotriazole as a rustproofing agent. Even when oxygen is contained in an amount...

20050275702 - Printer for duplex printing with multiple printhead modules: A printer for duplex printing includes a housing. A chassis is positioned in the housing. A pair of opposed print head assemblies is oriented to print on to respective sides of print media passing between the print head assemblies along a feed path. A pair of opposed feed rollers is...

20050275703 - Tool, method for drying recording sheet using the same and package with tool: Disclosed herein is a tool having an opening capable of holding a recording sheet by being raised in a gable form, which comprises a hook capable of retaining the gable form utilizing a restoring-force when formed in the gable form, and a hook hole into which the hook can fit....

20050275704 - Tool, method for drying recording sheet using the same, method for correcting warpage using the same, and unit having the same: Disclosed herein is a tool comprising a pair of holders capable of detachably holding each of both end portions of a recording sheet, and a coupling portion for coupling the pair of holders to each other, wherein the recording sheet forms a curved surface while the recording sheet is held...

20050275706 - Ink jet printer: In order to make maintenance of an ink jet printer less time-consuming, when ink is to be purged from ink jet heads 1, a unit conveying mechanism 30 moves a feeding plane 11a of a feeding sheet 11 to a retreated position that is inclined with respect to ink jet...

20050275705 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording material by recording means, the apparatus includes carriage for reciprocal movement while carrying the recording means; a platen for support the recording material at a position opposed to the recording means; feeding roller for feeding the recording material; a pinch roller...

20050275707 - Color image-forming apparatus: A color image-forming apparatus including two drums, two scanners for forming latent images on the two drums, four developing devices for developing the latent images on the drums into toner images with four colors, an intermediate transfer belt successively passing the drums so that the toner images are successively transferred...

20050275708 - Radio frequency identification tags on consumable items used in printers and related equipment: Improvements relating to identification tags on consumable supply items used in identity document production equipment. The use of identification tags on the consumable supply items allows the document production equipment to recognize the consumable supply items that are loaded into each piece of equipment. The equipment can then initiate a...

20050275709 - Wire printer for printing additive color image: A device for printing additive color images comprising a modified desktop wire printer, a set of print wires with surface relief diffraction gratings incorporated at the tips, a steel print platen and a print substrate made of thermal plastic material, is disclosed. The striking strokes of the print wires impress...

20050275712 - Image recording apparatus: A passage switching section of an image recording apparatus is provided with a main outlet formed for discharging a normal-sized recording-paper sheet carried along a main passage. A sub-outlet is formed above the main outlet. A sub-passage diverges from the main passage toward the sub-outlet. A passage switching mechanism for...

20050275711 - Led driver using a depletion mode transistor to serve as a current source: In a LED driver using a depletion mode transistor to serve as a current source, the depletion mode transistor is self-biased for providing a driving current to drive at least one LED, thereby requesting no additional control circuit to control the depletion mode transistor. The driving current is independent on...

20050275710 - Multilaser bi-directional printer with an oscillating scanning mirror: System and method for generating lines of data on a photosensitive medium for use with a display or a printing apparatus. The lines of data are generated by two or more modulated and parallel laser light beams onto a resonant pivoting torsional hinged mirror. The pivoting mirror sweeps the two...

20050275713 - Synchronization signal generator and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus using a synchronization signal generator can easily generate a pixel clock that enables both a magnification correction in a main scanning direction and a correction of expansion and contraction of pixel width in the main scanning direction. Each of pixel clock generation units generates a clock...

20050270312 - Fluid dispensing and drop-on-demand dispensing for nano-scale manufacturing: The present invention is directed to a method for dispensing a total volume of liquid on a substrate, the method including, inter alia, disposing a plurality of spaced-apart droplets on a region of the substrate, each having an unit volume associated therewith, with an aggregate volume of the droplets in...

20050270313 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: In an inkjet printing apparatus having a plurality of printing modes with different scanning speeds, first and second preliminary discharge performing positions are provided within the moving area of a carriage as positions where preliminary discharge is performed to cause a printhead to discharge ink irrespective of printing, and a...

20050270315 - Ink remainder detecting module for ink jet apparatus, ink container with same and ink jet apparatus: An ink remaining amount detection module, mountable to an ink container, for detection of an ink remaining amount in an ink container for ink jet recording, the ink remaining amount detection module, includes a support substrate; at least one detection electrode provided on one side of the support substrate; and...

20050270314 - Method of ink evaporation prediction for an ink reservoir: A method of ink evaporation prediction for an ink reservoir includes establishing an empirical evaporation curve representing evaporation characteristics for an ink reservoir type, the ink reservoir belonging to the ink reservoir type; and establishing an evaporation prediction curve for the ink reservoir that approximates the empirical evaporation curve....

20050270316 - Apparatus for adjusting printhead-to-media spacing in a printer: An apparatus is provided for adjusting the printhead-to-media spacing in a printer having a printhead carrying carriage, which is rockable relative to an elongate carriage rod in the printer to effect a change in such spacing. The apparatus comprises an anti-rotation rail having a primary axis, the anti-rotation rail configured...

20050270317 - Liquid jetting apparatus and liquid jetting method: A liquid jetting apparatus and a liquid jetting method are achieved that can prevent unexpected landing position displacement relating to satellite droplets. For example, the liquid jetting apparatus includes a head in which a nozzle row constituted by a plurality of nozzles lined up in a row is arranged at...

20050270318 - Head controller, inkjet recording apparatus, and image recording apparatus that prevent degradation in image quality due to environmental temperature changes: A head controller controls pressure creating means for contracting and expanding the volume of a pressurizing compartment communicating with a nozzle of a droplet discharging head. Drive waveform generating means outputs a drive pulse including a first waveform element expanding the compartment, a second waveform element maintaining the expanded state...

20050270320 - Ink-jet printer: An ink-jet printer including: an ink-jet head in which are disposed a plurality of nozzles that are divided into a plurality of nozzle groups; a plurality of actuators which are provided to respectively correspond to the plurality of nozzles and which are divided into a plurality of actuator groups respectively...

20050270319 - Liquid discharging head and recording apparatus using the same: A recording head in which an area of an element substrate is suppressed and costs are reduced and a recording apparatus using such a head are provided. A plurality of recording elements each for generating an energy to discharge a liquid are arranged in a predetermined direction and divided into...

20050270322 - Ink jet recording apparatus and ink jet recording method: An ink jet recording apparatus is provided that changes the adjustment temperature of a recording head depending on the number of recording media so that a favorable recording result can be maintained for any number of recording media and a time required for the recording can be reduced. Different adjustment...

20050270323 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: In an inkjet printing apparatus, as positions where preliminary discharge is performed to cause a printhead to discharge ink irrespective of printing, first and second preliminary discharge performing positions are provided within the moving area of a carriage, and a position or a combination of positions where preliminary discharge is...

20050270321 - Program product, device, and method for color chart discrimination and program product, device, and method for color correction: Conventionally, wasteful processes are required for identifying the printing conditions for a color chart. According to the present invention, the printing conditions are identified as follows: a printing condition acquisition unit acquires predetermined printing conditions under which a color chart is outputted from a printing device. A color chart output...

20050270324 - 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 different (in magnitude and/or direction) second printhead velocity. The ink for the second...

20050270325 - System and method for calibrating ink ejecting nozzles in a printer/scanner: A system and method are described for the calibration of ink ejecting nozzles in a device including an inkjet printer and a scanner. The ejecting nozzles form one or more pens in a printhead cartridge. The method includes the steps of printing a test pattern including a plurality of patches...

20050270326 - Micro-electromechanical integrated circuit device for fluid ejection: A micro-electromechanical integrated circuit device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of fluid inlet channels. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of fixed nozzle chamber walls is positioned on the substrate about respective fluid inlet channels. A plurality of movable nozzle chamber structures is positioned over...

20050270327 - Purging fixing-liquid ejection devices: Methods and apparatus are provided. Nozzles of a fluid-ejection device of an imaging device adapted to eject a clear fixing liquid are purged by ejecting a number of drops of the clear fixing liquid through the nozzles onto a non-imaging portion of a media sheet....

20050270328 - Orientation film forming device, orientation film forming method, drawing device, and drawing method: Aspects of the invention provide a drawing device and method that can improve the uniformity in film thickness after drying. The method can include a step of discharging orientation film ink from an ink jet head to a drawing region with a smaller area than a desired drawing region on...

20050270329 - Droplet ejection apparatus alignment: In one aspect, the invention features assemblies for depositing droplets on a substrate during relative motion of the assembly and the substrate along a process direction. The assemblies include a first printhead module and a second printhead module contacting the first printhead module, each of the printhead modules including a...

20050270330 - Printer including support member for supporting modular pagewidth printhead: A printer includes at least one pagewidth print assembly, the assembly including a support member configured to be secured within the pagewidth printhead assembly so as to support a modular pagewidth printhead formed from one or more silicon structures. The support member comprises an outer laminated shell portion, and a...

20050270331 - Printhead assembly for a pagewidth inkjet printer incorporating a series of printhead modules: A printhead assembly for a pagewidth inkjet printer includes an elongate support structure. A plurality of elongate printhead modules is positioned, end to end, in the support structure. Each printhead module includes a feed member that defines a number of longitudinally extending flow passages in fluid communication with respective flow...

20050270332 - Fluid ejection device with dry-film photo-resist layer: Methods of manufacturing a fluid ejection device comprise, in one embodiment, forming filler structures on a substrate and laminating a dry film onto the substrate over the filler structures. The dry film defines a barrier layer around the filler structures and an orifice layer above the filler structures. The filler...

20050270333 - Print media cartridge incorporating print media and a print media transport mechanism: A print media cartridge includes a housing assembly that defines a region in which a stack of print media sheets can be stored. A sheet transport mechanism is mounted in the housing assembly to feed the sheets from the housing assembly. An ink storage assembly is mounted on the housing...

20050270334 - Ink jet nozzle arrangement having paddle forming a portion of a wall: An ink jet nozzle arrangement for a printhead is provided. The nozzle arrangement comprises a nozzle chamber for storing ink to be ejected, at least one moveable actuator paddle forming at least a portion of a first wall of said nozzle chamber, and an ink ejection nozzle defined in the...

20050270336 - Ink jet printhead chip with volumetric ink ejection mechanisms: An inkjet printhead chip includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink supply channels. A drive circuitry layer is positioned in the substrate. A plurality of nozzle arrangements is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber structure arranged on the substrate and defining walls of...

20050270335 - Method of fabricating a micro-electromechanical actuating mechanism: A method of fabricating a micro-electromechanical actuating mechanism on a wafer substrate includes the step of carrying out a CMOS fabrication process on the wafer to form transistor control and drive circuitry. Sacrificial material is deposited on the transistor control and drive circuitry. The sacrificial material is etched to provide...

20050270337 - Printhead integrated circuit comprising inkjet nozzles having moveable roof actuators: A printhead integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit comprises a substrate, a plurality of inkjet nozzles formed on the substrate and drive circuitry connected to the inkjet nozzles. Each inkjet nozzle comprises a nozzle chamber for storing ink to be ejected, at least one moveable actuator paddle forming at...

20050270338 - Inkjet printhead device having an array of inkjet nozzles arranged according to a heirarchical pattern: An inkjet printhead device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink passages. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. An array of inkjet nozzles is arranged on the substrate. Each inkjet nozzle includes a nozzle chamber structure that defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a respective...

20050270339 - Inkjet recording head: An inkjet recording head, including a channel unit which has, along a reference plane, a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with a plurality of nozzles, respectively, each of which ejects a droplet of ink; and a piezoelectric actuator which changes a volume of an arbitrary one of the pressure chambers...

20050270340 - Laminated piezoelectric element, liquid droplet ejection head using same, and image forming apparatus comprising same: The laminated piezoelectric element comprises a plurality of layers including first electrodes, piezoelectric material bodies, and second electrodes, wherein: the layers are laminated in order of the first electrode, the piezoelectric material body, the second electrode, and the piezoelectric material body; a plurality of active parts of the laminated piezoelectric...

20050270343 - Labyrinth seal structure: A labyrinth seal structure includes a gland structure for providing a fluid seal between a first surface and a second surface, and redundant labyrinth fluid flow paths between a first side of the seal structure and a second side of the seal structure....

20050270341 - Liquid container and printing apparatus using the same: An intermediate chamber 7 is provided in a liquid storage chamber 6 of a liquid container 1, for separating the liquid storage chamber 6 from a chamber 5 for accommodating a negative pressure generating member. The intermediate chamber 7 communicates with both of the liquid storage chamber 6 and the...

20050270342 - Liquid supplying apparatus and liquid housing container: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid supplying apparatus which enables a liquid housing container to be appropriately and smoothly attached to and detached from a print head. Thus, the present invention includes a liquid supplying tube projected from the print head and having a...

20050270346 - Cartridge alignment mechanism and method thereof: A cartridge alignment mechanism. A cartridge, detachably installed in a carriage, comprises an abutting surface symmetrical to a symmetrical plane and corresponding to an abutting datum surface, and first and second alignment surfaces respectively corresponding to first and second datum surfaces. The cartridge disposed in the carriage cause the first...

20050270348 - Ink cartridge and remaining ink volume detection method: An ink cartridge has a first partitioning wall 5 and a third partitioning wall 7 for dividing the inside of a case 2 into a first ink chamber 9 and a second ink chamber 10, and a second partitioning wall 6 for demarcating an atmosphere connection chamber 11. In an...

20050270344 - Ink cartridge, recording apparatus employing ink cartridge, and manufacturing method for ink cartridge: An ink cartridge which is detachably mountable to a liquid ejection type recording device including a liquid ejecting head for ejecting liquid onto a recording material while scanning the recording material in a direction crossing with a feeding direction of the recording material, and a recoverying unit for sucking the...

20050270345 - Ink catridge and ink jet printer: A notch (recess portion) is proved on a front face of an ink cartridge, and a holding portion is set between a corner portion of the recess portion and a projection portion provided on a cartridge upper face. A cartridge can be held securely by nipping the cartridge between two...

20050270347 - Ink container: An ink container includes an ink accommodation chamber for directly accommodating ink; a sensor portion for detecting a remaining amount of the ink in said ink accommodation chamber, wherein ambient air is introduced from an outside of said ink accommodation chamber into the ink in accordance with supplying the ink...

20050270349 - Ink stock solution for ink jet recording, method for manufacturing the same and ink for ink jet recording: An ink stock solution for ink jet recording comprising at least; a dispersion medium; coloring material particles containing a resin; and a dispersant, wherein a flowing characteristic of the ink stock solution shows Newtonian fluidity. The ink stock solution is obtained by subjecting the coloring material particles containing the resin...

20050270350 - Chemically-modified coatings for enhanced performance of ink-jet images: Ceramic pigment-based, chemically-modified porous coatings can be used for enhancing image permanence of ink-jet image printing. Specifically, a porous coated media sheet, comprising a media substrate, having a porous coating coated thereon comprising a modified ceramic pigment including a fixer group and a stabilizer group, each covalently attached to the...

20050270351 - Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording method and an ink jet recording apparatus permitting image formation with a high degree of color reproducibility while alleviating the influences of the ink-absorbency of the recording medium and the base color is to be provided. A transfer drum is applied a reaction liquid, and inks...

20050270352 - Inkjet printer with cutting head having smoothly movable heads: An inkjet printer with a cutting head comprises a linear motion rail, and a linear motion block slidably provided on the linear motion rail. An inkjet head carriage holding an inkjet head and a cutting head carriage holding a cutting head are fixed to the linear motion block through respective...

20050270356 - Pagewidth inkjet printer for duplex printing with transfer rollers: An inkjet pagewidth printer includes a chassis. A print media feed mechanism is mounted on the chassis to feed print media along a feed path. A pair of opposed transfer rollers are rotatably mounted on the chassis to contact the print media as it is moved along the feed path....

20050270353 - Recording apparatus: A conveying roller and a paper expelling roller provided upstream and downstream, respectively, of a recording portion in a conveyance direction are connected via an idler gear so as to be able to perform drive transmission, a rotation drive amount of the idler gear is detected, ends of a recording...

20050270354 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a recording portion for recording an image on a recording sheet; feeding means for feeding the recording sheet through the recording portion, wherein in a both-side recording operation, a sheet inclination rectifying operation in a recording sheet feeding direction is carried out when the recording is...

20050270355 - Transport apparatus and recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit for recoding on a recording medium by ejecting ink, a conveyor belt for transporting the medium, first and second electrode groups including a plurality of electrodes inside the conveyor belt, a charging unit for charging the first and second electrode groups to provide...

20050270357 - Preparation method of inkjet recording paper: A preparation method for an inkjet recording paper obtained by cutting an inkjet recording sheet which has been formed in advance with an image wherein cutting is carried out by: providing a surface of the inkjet recording sheet before cutting with a cut location mark; detecting the cut location mark...

20050270358 - Image-recording device, method for recording an image that is visualized on a display unit, arrangement of an image-recording device and a display unit, use of said image-recording device, and use of said arrangement: To improve image capture from a display or a surface, more specifically from a specular reflecting surface, the invention proposes an image capturing apparatus having an image capturing unit and an image fitting surface in which the optical axis of the image capturing unit is disposed at an angle a...

20050270359 - Recording head with temperature sensor and printer with the recording head: A recording head is provided with an element substrate and a circuit board fixed to a head substrate having heat radiation property. Plural heating elements are formed linearly in the element substrate, and plural driver ICs are attached to the element substrate. A temperature sensor is disposed between the driver...

20050270360 - Arrangement and method for activation of a thermotransfer print head: An arrangement for activation of a thermotransfer print head has a unit to determine a transport delay and a unit to generate supplementary heating pulses to maintain a temperature required for printing at the thermo-printing heating elements. The unit to determine a transport delay is connected with the thermotransfer print...

20050270361 - Digital thermal transfer printer: The present invention discloses a digital thermal transfer printer comprising not only several heaters drying sequentially transfer ink printed to textile materials, but also a thermal transfer moving horizontally and ejecting hot winds of 180˜600° C. to heat the transfer ink directly to have the production speed of general direct...

20050270362 - Light source and color thermal printer using the same: A yellow fixing light source of a color thermal printer comprises an aluminum substrate, light emitting elements aligned thereon, and reflectors mounted thereon. The reflector reflects the light emitted from the light emitting element. A part of a power line constituting a wiring pattern is formed on a glass epoxy...

20050270363 - Light scanning unit: A light scanning unit that corrects skew of a scanning line. The light scanning unit, which scans light on an exposed surface of a photosensitive medium, includes a light source to generate and illuminate at least one beam that corresponds to an image signal while being controlled on and off....

20050270364 - Flexible media magnetic printing system: A flexible media magnetic printing system provides for data storage within flexible media imprinted with magnetic ink. In a particular embodiment, the printing system includes at least one reservoir of magnetic ink with magnetic particles capable of supporting high density data, and at least one reservoir of visible ink. The...

20050270365 - Multi-beam scanning optical apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: A multi-beam scanning optical apparatus includes an incident optical system for making a plurality of light beams emitted from light source means having a plurality of light emitting portions incident on a deflector, and a scanning optical system for forming images of the plurality of light beams deflected by the...

20050264590 - Method and apparatus for precise marking and placement of an object: The present invention provides a precise marking apparatus for performing precise marking on an object and methods of using the same. The precise marking apparatus comprises an object input handler and an object output handler for handling the object; a transport system for transporting the object handlers during a marking...

20050264591 - Method and apparatus for controlling printing: A method of controlling printing is provided, by which poster printing and double-sided printing are realized at the same time by suitably controlling an order of outputting pages for a divided image. A printer 1500 capable of double-sided printing prints two consecutive pages of print data on both sides of...

20050264592 - Ink jet printer, ink jet printing method, ink jet print program, and medium recording that program: An inkjet print device prints by reciprocally moving a carriage (15) in a main scan direction while controlling ink ejection from a print head (17) according to information on the position of the carriage (15) both in a forward movement and in a return movement. An encoder (22), a first...

20050264593 - Printing apparatus, controlling method and computer program: A printing apparatus is provided which can utilize a power supply to its maximum capacity without overly degrading a throughput. Print area that can be printed in one scan of a print head is divided into a plurality of blocks. The number of data indicating print in each block is...

20050264594 - Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press: In an ink supply amount adjustment method for a printing press, one of a density value and a color value of a printing product is measured. The difference between the measurement value and a preset reference value is obtained as a measurement difference. The first error ratio allowed with respect...

20050264595 - Thermal sense resistor for a replaceable printer component: A replaceable printer component (14) includes a thermal sense resistor (14B) having a first resistance. A resistance modifier (510) coupled to the thermal sense resistor modifies the first resistance....

20050264597 - Cartridge and printing apparatus: An ink cartridge 10 of the invention has a sensor 17 to detect the presence or the absence of ink. A control device 22 of a printer 20 transmits a detection command and a specified detection condition to the ink cartridge 10 by radio communication. In response to input of...

20050264596 - Image-forming device diagnosis: A method for diagnosing image-forming devices includes forming a non-diagnostic image on a surface, forming diagnostic marks on the surface using distinct image-forming points and sensing the diagnostic marks....

20050264598 - Print media cartridge incorporating print media and ink housing assemblies: An ink and print media cartridge includes a print media housing assembly that defines a region in which print media can be stored and includes a feed mechanism to feed the print media from the housing assembly. An ink housing assembly is fast with the print media housing assembly. The...

20050264599 - Modular printhead assembly with capping devices: A printhead assembly includes an elongate carrier. A plurality of printhead modules is serially positioned on the carrier. Each printhead module includes an ink supply arrangement mounted on the carrier and a printhead chip mounted on the ink supply arrangement to be fed with ink from the ink supply arrangement....

20050264600 - Emission of fluid droplet from printhead with coherent irradiation: A fluid ejection device is irradiated with an effective amount of coherent radiation to cause emission of a fluid droplet from the fluid ejection device....

20050264602 - Ink jet printer, method for controlling ink jet printer, and computer program product for ink jet printer: An ink jet printer is provided with an ink jet head, a recovery device, a timer, and a controller. The ink jet head discharges ink. The recovery device executes a recovery action to recover an ink discharging ability of the ink jet head. The timer measures time since a last...

20050264601 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer includes a printhead containing a nozzle portion having a length corresponding to a width of a paper sheet. A moving block is configured to move along a longitudinal direction of the nozzle portion. A cleaning unit has one or more blades to wipe off waste ink by...

20050264603 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus comprises a first carriage, a second carriage, and a carriage-moving mechanism. The first carriage is reciprocally movable in parallel with an ink ejection face of an ink-jet head. The second carriage is separate from the first carriage and reciprocally movable in the same direction as a...

20050264604 - Ink jet printing assembly: An ink jet printing assembly and method of use for printing on a substrate where the substrate is driven in a driving direction. The ink jet printing assembly includes a first jetting assembly having a first ink orifice and a second ink orifice and a second jetting assembly separate from...

20050264605 - Pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly having a composite support structure: A pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate support structure of a composite material. A plurality of printhead modules are mounted on and along the support structure. The composite material is configured so that a coefficient of thermal expansion of the elongate support structure is substantially the same as that...

20050264606 - Postage meter print head and carriage: A mailing machine print head and carriage that use one or more systems or elements to latch the print head in a controlled location and to guide it into and out of that location in a manner that prevents debris from being transferred to the electrical connector contacts is provided....

20050264607 - Printhead assembly with power and ground connections along single edge: A printhead assembly with an elongate printhead and a plurality of power supply points and ground supply points spaced along its length. The assembly also has an elongate power busbar and an elongate ground busbar with an interconnect means 470 connecting said power supply points 553 to the power busbar...

20050264610 - Fluid ejection device with a through-chip micro-electromechanical actuator: A fluid ejection device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of nozzle chambers. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on one side of the substrate and contains drive circuitry. A structural layer is positioned on an opposite side of the substrate and defines a plurality of ink ejection ports...

20050264611 - Ink jet printhead nozzle arrangement with actuated nozzle chamber closure: A nozzle arrangement for an ink jet printhead chip comprises a wafer substrate having a front surface, a rear surface and a nozzle chamber extending through the wafer substrate to define an inlet at the rear surface of the wafer substrate. An outlet is defined at the front surface of...

20050264609 - Inkjet printer: There is disclosed an inkjet printer comprising: an inkjet printhead having an actuator and a plurality of nozzle rows each consisting of a plurality of nozzles through each of which a droplet of ink is ejected onto a recording medium by driving of the actuator; an IC chip having a...

20050264608 - Printhead substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a driving circuit layout which suppresses an increase in the area of a head substrate in an inkjet printhead adopting a constant electric current driving method. To achieve this object, a plurality of printing elements and a plurality of switching elements which...

20050264612 - Inkjet printhead with thermal bend arm exposed to ink flow: An inkjet drop ejection apparatus 1010 having a chamber 1012 with a nozzle 1011; and an actuator with a thermal bend arm 1034. The arm has a cold portion 1024 and a hot portion 1022 such that thermal expansion of the hot portion bends the arm. The cold portion is...

20050264614 - Ink jet head and ink jet type recording apparatus: An ink jet head includes a head body (11) which is provided with a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of pressure chambers and actuators (14) respectively corresponding to the nozzles. Input terminals (37) of the actuators (14) are arranged locally between left-side and right-side central actuator columns (14A, 14A)....

20050264613 - Printhead substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a driving circuit layout which suppresses an increase in the area of a head substrate in an inkjet printhead adopting a driving method for supplying a predetermined current to a heater. To achieve this object, a plurality of printing elements and a...

20050264615 - Ink-jet print head with a chamber sidewall heating mechanism and a method for fabricating the same: An ink-jet print head with a chamber sidewall heating mechanism includes a substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate, a main channel penetrating through the substrate, a plurality of V-shaped micro-channels each having a diverging end linking with the main channel and a converging end linking with an ink chamber...

20050264616 - Thermal ink jet printhead with heater element current flow around nozzle axis: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles 3 and a bubble forming chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle respectively. Each nozzle 3 defines a nozzle aperture 5 with a central axis. At least one heater element 10 suspended in each bubble forming chamber 7...

20050264617 - Electrostatic actuator formed by a semiconductor manufacturing process: An electrostatic actuator has high-reliability and less variation in characteristics. An electrode (12a) is formed on a substrate (1), and a plurality of partition parts (50a) are formed on the electrode. A vibration plate (19) is formed on the partition parts (50a), and is deformable by an electrostatic force generated...

20050264618 - Ink-jet printing head having a plurality of actuator units and/or a plurality of manifold chambers: An ink-jet printing head including a cavity unit and an actuator superposed on each other, wherein the cavity unit has (a) a plurality of nozzles open in a front surface thereof and arranged in at least one row, (b) a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding to the nozzles, (c) a...

20050264620 - Autopurge printing system: A system, including an ink supply system configured to supply ink to a printhead; and an autopurge unit configured to automatically clean the printhead. The autopurge unit includes a solvent supply in fluid communication with a solvent line, a solenoid housing, and a waste container. The solenoid housing includes a...

20050264619 - Ink building: An ink builder to build an ink for a hard copy device. The ink has at least one property that deteriorates in storage. The ink builder comprises an ink tank and apparatus for building ink in the ink tank from a plurality of components and/or an ink maintaining apparatus arranged...

20050264621 - Liquid tank: A liquid tank includes a liquid chamber for holding liquid and an absorption chamber containing an absorber for absorbing and holding the liquid. The liquid chamber and the absorption chamber are separated by a partition. The partition has a communication part allowing communication between the liquid chamber and the absorption...

20050264622 - Cartridge having integrated circuit for enabling validation thereof by a mobile device: A replaceable print cartridge for installation in a mobile device, the print cartridge comprising: a printhead; at least one ink reservoir; and a first integrated circuit that permanently stores an identifier that is relatively unique to that integrated circuit; such that, upon installation in the mobile device, the mobile device...

20050264624 - Liquid contianer and inkjet cartridge: In a structure of an ink tank having a deformable sheet that constitutes the tank and a spring for imparting a negative pressure, unstableness of the negative pressure attributable to the deformation of the sheet as a result of ink consumption is prevented. For this purpose, a plate-like member is...

20050264625 - Method of normality decision with regard to ink cartridge and printer actualizing the method: An ink cartridge of the present invention has a storage element, in which plural pieces of specific information relating to an ink cartridge are stored at specific addresses having predetermined data lengths. For example, a piece of information on the year of manufacture is registered in a data length of...

20050264623 - Recording apparatus having a device for detecting the presence or absence of a liquid: A device for detecting the presence or absence of a liquid, which is installed on an ink-jet recording apparatus, is configured to determine the presence or absence of ink in the ink flow path by detecting the reflection of light from a light transmission portion by irradiating light thereon. The...

20050264626 - Re-circulating fluid delivery systems: A re-circulating fluid delivery system includes an air-fluid separator structure, a fluid plenum in fluid communication with the separator structure, and a free fluid reservoir. A fluid re-circulation path fluidically couples the separator structure, the fluid plenum and the free fluid reservoir. A pump structure re-circulates fluid through the re-circulation...

20050264627 - Inkjet print head: An inkjet print head including a chamber layer provided with an ink via, at least one ink chamber having a heater, and at least one ink channel connecting the ink via and the ink chamber; and a nozzle layer provided with at least one nozzle at a position corresponding to...

20050264628 - Ink:

20050264630 - Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording method which prints out by ejecting onto a recording medium an ink set for inkjet use, wherein the ink set comprises at least: a first liquid containing at least a coloring material, a water soluble solvent and water; a second liquid containing at least a coagulant, a...

20050264629 - Recording fluid, cartridge for fluid, device and method for discharging fluid:

20050264631 - Device for inductive injection of thermal energy into a printing form for fixing an image: An image fixing device inductively injects thermal energy into a rotating printing form of a press for fixing an image formed on the rotating printing form by means of a digital imaging system. The fixing device has at least one inductor with at least one induction loop, a high-frequency part...

20050264633 - Inkjet printer with in-built drying compartment: An inkjet printer has a drying compartment for the freshly printed media web. The compartment has a top opening for receiving the media web fed from the printhead, the top opening being configured so that the media web is received as a suspended partial loop within the compartment. The printer...

20050264632 - Using continuous spray inkjet system for accurately printing titanium oxide based inks: Method and apparatus for producing an accurately positioned white layer to serve as an undercoat for inkjet process colors imaging on a substrate, by accurately ink jetting a colorless loosely-bonded frame onto the substrate, thereby defining an area to be imaged, ink jetting or spraying a white layer, the white...

20050264634 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material by an image recording portion, the image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeder for stacking a plurality of recording materials; a sheet feeding roller for contacting the recording material at a first position to feed the recording material...

20050264635 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material by an image recording portion, includes a sheet feed/discharge portion, disposed at one side of a main assembly of the apparatus, for feeding a recording material to be recorded and for discharging a recorded recording material; second roller...

20050264637 - Recording apparatus: There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the recording medium....

20050264636 - Sheet feeder: A sheet feeder including: a storing unit that stores a plurality of sheets of recording medium; a retaining unit provided at an edge of the recording medium that is stored in the storing unit, and having an inclined surface that is inclined to a surface of the recording medium and...

20050264638 - Image forming apparatus and method: It reduces a moving distance of a recording medium and thereby reduces the moving distance to be secured in an image forming apparatus so as to reduce size of the apparatus by a simple method. It is possible to feed a recording medium 304 at lower speed than normal speed...

20050264639 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of decreasing the image unevenness of a superimposed image at the time of forming starting (head) lines of the images in respective colors with different beams in order to decrease a shift of a superimposed image. Let a position, where an image in a first...

20050264640 - Color control system and color control method: A color management system for controlling output colors of plural color proofs outputted in succession during a period from receiving of an order of printing to finishing of the printing, including: a measuring section to measure an output color of the plural color proofs; a storing section to store a...

20050264641 - Image recording body and image forming apparatus by use of the same: An image recording body includes an element, which absorbs light (electromagnetic wave), provided in a surface of a recording body 10, or in a recording layer formed on uppermost layer of the recording body having a material exhibiting thermal changeable character of wettabilty, or in a substrate or an intermediate...

20050264642 - Method of manufacturing a printed textile ribbon: A method of manufacturing printed textile ribbons reliably and inexpensively, initially a web is produced which forms the later ribbon. The web is composed of two different materials, wherein a figure is applied on one side of the web. The web is subsequently subjected to a heat and pressure treatment...

20050264643 - Thermal printer including a plurality of recording units: To provide a thermal printer capable of easily improving a recording quality, a plurality of recording units, arranged along a carrying path of a recording medium, are respectively provided with a recording head, a platen which opposes the recording head with the carrying path interposed therebetween and is brought into...

20050264644 - Thermal recording medium:

20050264646 - Color image forming apparatus and image forming system therewith: A color image forming apparatus for forming a color image on a recording medium, includes: an image carrier; a polygon mirror; a signal forming device for forming a pseudo main scanning reference signal having a fixed cycle; and a controller for controlling image formation on a predetermined surface of the...

20050264645 - Image forming device: An image forming device equipped with a light scanning device having a polygon mirror that deflects laser light by rotating, a focusing element for focusing deflected laser light onto a photosensitive body, and a reflection mirror reflecting and guiding to the photosensitive body the laser light which passes through the...