Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 04/06

20060087522 - Container and device for generating electric fields in different chambers: The invention concerns a container 1 with chambers 2 which each comprise at least one pair of electrodes including a first 4 and a second electrode 5 for the application of electric voltage for generating an electric field within one chamber 2. At least two first electrodes 4 of different...

20060087523 - Printing device and method using valve control: The present invention provides a method of printing an image, and an apparatus for performing the method, the method comprising the steps of: (a) generating print data representing the image to be printed; (b) dividing the print data into a plurality of sub-elements; (c) writing each print data sub-element into...

20060087524 - System and method for reducing printing errors by limiting the firing frequency of a print head: A method and apparatus for printing an image on a print medium using an ink jet print head in an apparatus having an encoder system. The method includes generating a first firing pulse for the print head and starting a timer, waiting to receive an encoder signal from the encoder...

20060087526 - Method and system for monitoring operation of an ink jet print head using a micro-wire array: Methods and systems to monitor the operation of ink jet print heads that are easy to implement and inexpensive are provided. The print head is positioned over an array of wires. The array of wires is heated, and the print head is controlled to eject droplets of ink from each...

20060087527 - Method for preparing a print mask: A method for preparing a mask for multi-pass printing, comprises determining a characteristic satellite drop spray pattern for printing in a multi-pass mode with a printhead. Positions in the mask are filled with pass numbers. The pass numbers in a given position are selected based on considerations of interactions among...

20060087525 - Method of expelling ink from nozzles in groups, starting at outside nozzles of each group: A method of expelling ink from a printhead module including at least one row that comprises a plurality of sets of n adjacent nozzles, each of the nozzles being configured to expel ink in response to a fire signal, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a fire signal...

20060087529 - Adjustment of positional misalignment of dots in printing apparatus: The object of the present invention is to adjust relative misalignment of recording positions of dots created at different timings with high accuracy, thereby enhancing the printing quality. A patch pattern is used as a test pattern for adjusting misalignment of recording positions between a first dot and a second...

20060087528 - Ink density impact on sensor signal-to-noise ratio: A printer is configured to manage a signal-to-noise ratio of a signal produced by a sensor scanning a print test pattern. The print test pattern is printed while controlling ink density printed by each of one or more pens. Each ink density is selected so that the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds...

20060087530 - Removing member and image forming apparatus: A removing member for use in an image forming apparatus removes foreign materials from a nozzle face of a discharge head provided in the image forming apparatus. The removing member includes a base material, and fine particles disposed to the base material....

20060087531 - Inkjet printing apparatus: This invention pertains to an apparatus for reliable, high-speed inkjet printing and, in particular, to an apparatus with a fixed array inkjet printhead having redundant nozzle arrangements....

20060087532 - Apparatus for ejecting droplets: An apparatus for ejecting droplets is provided with a ejecting head for discharging droplets, an electric circuit board having an electric circuit formed on a surface of the electric circuit board, the electric circuit being connected to the ejecting head, a holder for supporting the ejecting head and the electric...

20060087534 - Stacked heater elements in a thermal ink jet printhead: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle (3). Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a...

20060087533 - Thermal ink jet printhead with high nozzle areal density: There is disclosed an inkjet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle (3). Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a gas...

20060087535 - Inkjet print head with a high efficiency heater and method of fabricating the same: A method of fabricating a high efficiency inkjet print head includes forming an oxide film on a surface of a substrate, sequentially forming and patterning a heater layer and a wiring layer on the oxide film, forming a passivation layer on the heater layer and the wiring layer and patterning...

20060087536 - Liquid transporting apparatus: A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibration plate 30 covering pressure chambers 14 and serving also as a common electrode, a piezoelectric layer 31 arranged on the vibration plate 30 on a side opposite to the pressure chambers 14, and individual electrodes 32. The individual electrodes are each arranged on a...

20060087537 - System and method for preventing security ink tampering: An ink supply system for a printer including an inner chamber comprising a controlled security ink; an outer chamber comprising a chemical; an ink conduit from the inner chamber through and out of the outer chamber; and a rupture wall at a junction between the inner chamber and the outer...

20060087538 - Liquid container and ink jet recording apparatus: A liquid container for accommodating liquid for use with an ink jet recording apparatus includes a light emitting portion; an electric contact for receiving a signal for actuating said light emitting portion from the ink jet recording apparatus; and a light guide portion for guiding the light from said light...

20060087539 - Reuse of solvent startup/shutdown fluid for concentration control: A system to recycle waste ink for reuse as replenishment fluid is for an inkjet print station that includes a printhead with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The system uses an ink supply tank, an external ink supply tank with fresh ink and an ink supply valve to...

20060087540 - Ink-jet textile printing method: A method of forming an ink-jet image containing the steps of: applying a pre-treatment solution to a textile; and ejecting droplets of an ink-jet ink on the textile through an ink-jet head, wherein the ink-jet ink comprises a disperse dye, a dispersing agent, water and a water-soluble organic solvent; the...

20060087541 - Reactive color inks: An ink for use in inkjet printing has a colorant which has a precipitation rate in the presence of a predetermined fixer that is selected to have a value sufficiently low as to enable an increase in dot size of the colorant and produce a better color....

20060087542 - Method and system for efficiently printing and sorting multiple orders of transaction cards: A system and method for printing and sorting non-identical transaction cards concurrently includes a printer which is configured to print onto multiple sheets (i) each of a plurality of non-identical transaction cards onto a separate print receiving space on a sheet, and along with each card (ii) a sort indicator...

20060087543 - Ink jet printer: An ink jet head (15) of an ink jet printer comprises an ink jet nozzle (24) outputting ultraviolet curing ink, a pair of ultraviolet LEDs 25a and 25b provided on both sides of the ink jet nozzle in the moving direction for emitting ultraviolet in order to cure the ultraviolet...

20060087544 - Print media and ink supply cartridge with built-in sheet transport mechanism: A print media and ink supply cartridge includes a casing that is divided into a print media storage portion and an ink supply portion and that defines a print media exit opening from which sheets of print media in the print media storage portion can be fed. A print media...

20060087547 - Ink jet recording apparatus capable of performing a duplex print operation: An ink jet recording apparatus performs a print operation by controlling an ink jet recording head to eject ink drops there from against front and back surfaces of a recording sheet at a print position. The apparatus includes a transporting mechanism for transporting a portion of the recording sheet to...

20060087546 - Inkjet printer: In an inkjet printer including first to n-th paper storages, such as a magazine type storage or a cassette type storage, and associated first to n-th upstream transport lines (where n is a natural number larger than 1), a paper carrier (switchback unit) is provided which has a roller pair...

20060087545 - Pattern forming system, pattern forming method, and electronic apparatus: A pattern forming system including a feeding reel for feeding a tape form substrate that is wound up, a winding reel for winding up the tape form substrate that is fed up, and a droplet discharge apparatus for discharging a droplet onto the tape form substrate, between the feeding reel...

20060087548 - Image forming apparatus and an image forming method using the same: An image forming apparatus comprises a pickup roller for picking up paper from a paper supply part and supplying the paper directly to a transfer nip (that is, the contact formed between a photoconductive drum and a transferring roller), a laser scanning unit for scanning a certain light onto the...

20060087549 - Printing mail processing apparatus with improved mailpiece throughput: A mail processing apparatus has a field table and a printer disposed above the feed table for printing indicia on a mailpiece moved in a movement direction along the feed table. A start sensor detects a leading edge of the mailpiece and supplies a signal to a microprocessor controller that...

20060087550 - Optical system having image direction modulator and liti appratus including the system: An optical system has an image direction modulator and a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) apparatus includes the optical system. The optical system includes a laser source for producing laser beams, and the image direction modulator has a first mode in which an image direction of the laser beams is...

20060087551 - Scanning apparatus for laser printer: The present invention relates to a scanning apparatus for a laser printer. More particularly, the present invention relates to a scanning apparatus, which is formed to allow a light modulator to be non-perpendicular to the shaft of a photosensitive drum, which is a scanning object, thus performing scanning at a...

20060082605 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer, including a recording head having a nozzle to jet ink droplets, a control section to control jetting of the ink droplets from the nozzle of the recording head at predetermined driving conditions for jetting the ink droplets, a velocity detecting section to detect ink droplets jetting velocity...

20060082604 - Print optimization system and method for drop on demand ink jet printers: A system and method for optimizing print quality of print media is for use on an ink jet printing system with a drop generator and an orifice plate disposed on the drop generator, wherein the orifice plate comprises nozzles forming a jet array. The drop generator is adapted to modulate...

20060082606 - Continuous inkjet printer having adjustable drop placement: A method of printing includes associating a pixel area of a recording medium with a nozzle and a time interval during which a fluid drop ejected from the nozzle can impinge the pixel area of the recording medium; dividing the time interval into a plurality of subintervals; grouping some of...

20060082608 - Ink jet apparatus: A drop emitting device that includes a drop generator, a drive signal including a plurality of fire intervals applied to the drop generator, wherein the drive signal includes in each fire interval a bi-polar drop firing waveform or a time varying non-firing waveform....

20060082607 - Ink-droplet ejecting apparatus: An ink-droplet ejecting apparatus including a nozzle; a pressure chamber ailed with ink; an actuator which produces a pressure wave in the ink; and a control device which, when a first print command corresponding to a first print period is to eject the ink and a second print command corresponding...

20060082609 - Compensation for horizontal skew between adjacent rows of nozzles on a printhead module: A printer controller for supplying dot data to a printhead in a predetermined order, the printhead comprising at least a first printhead module having a plurality of rows of printing nozzles, the printer controller being configured to order and time the supply of the dot data to the first printhead...

20060082610 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and computer-readable medium: Degradation in the image quality of a print image is suppressed even in a case where a head is installed at an angle with respect to its movement direction. A printing method includes the following steps: a step of performing a carrying operation for carrying a medium; a step of...

20060082611 - Inkjet recording apparatus and recovery control after interruption of its recording operation: An inkjet recording apparatus has a structure in which, when a recording-interruption operation of a recording head such as discharge-recovery processing is performed during an image-forming operation, a recording downtime is measured, and the recording head is heated in accordance with the length of a recording downtime so as to...

20060082612 - Image forming method and apparatus, and a recording medium storing a program for performing an image forming method: An image forming method is performed by an image forming apparatus having a head mounting a plurality of writing units that form an image on a recording medium. The writing units are aligned in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main-scanning direction. A part of the image is formed on...

20060082613 - Charge plate fabrication technique: A method for fabricating a charge plate for an ink jet printhead entails removing portions of conductive material from a dimensionally stable dielectric substrate with a coating of conductive material to form at least a first and second electrode on a first face with a first space between the first...

20060082614 - Fluid injection devices and methods for controlling injection quality thereof: Fluid injectors and methods of controlling injection quality for fluid injectors. The fluid injector comprises a fluid chamber for receiving fluid with a first layer thereon, at least one fluid actuator positioned on the first layer, a sensor for measuring the thickness of the first layer, a second layer disposed...

20060082615 - Liquid drop emitter with split thermo-mechanical actuator: An apparatus for a liquid drop emitter, especially for use in an ink jet printhead, is disclosed. A chamber filled with a liquid, a nozzle and a thermo-mechanical actuator, extending into the chamber from at least one wall of the chamber is disclosed. A movable element of the thermo-mechanical actuator...

20060082616 - Droplet ejection head and droplet ejection apparatus: There is provided a droplet ejection head that is small in size, provides high productivity, and is extremely reliable. The droplet ejection head of the present invention includes pressure generating chambers that are connected to nozzle apertures, an elastic membrane (i.e., a diaphragm) that constitutes a portion of the pressure...

20060082618 - Inkjet printhead and method of assembling the same: There is disclosed an inkjet printhead comprising a cavity unit and an actuator. The cavity unit includes a plurality of nozzles each for ejecting a droplet of ink, a plurality of pressure chambers formed on a surface of the cavity unit on a first side thereof to respectively correspond to...

20060082617 - Liquid ejection head, liquid ejection apparatus, and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head comprises: a plurality of liquid ejection ports; a plurality of pressure chambers which are respectively communicated with the liquid ejection ports; a diaphragm which configures at least one surface of each of the pressure chambers; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements which are disposed on a...

20060082619 - Method for producing piezoelectric actuator, method for producing ink-jet head, and piezoelectric actuator: In the step of forming a piezoelectric layer of the method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, the piezoelectric layer is formed by using material particles M having a composition which differs from the optimum composition by the diffusion amount of Ti. The piezoelectric layer has a two-layer structure including a...

20060082620 - Charge plate fabrication technique: A charge plate and a method for fabricating a charge plate for an ink jet printhead includes the steps of removing portions of conductive material from a dimensionally stable substrate with a coating of conductive material to form at least a first and second electrode on a first face with...

20060082621 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid filling method of liquid ejection apparatus: In a first preliminary filling step, ink edge is moved to a position between first and second pressure chambers in an ink supply passage and the second pressure chamber is filled preliminarily with the ink. In a second preliminary filling step, the ink edge is moved to a position between...

20060082622 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of increasing maintenance efficiency: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of recording liquid cartridges, a cartridge holder, and a cover. The plurality of recording liquid cartridges contain recording liquids of colors different from each other. The cartridge holder holds the plurality of recording liquid cartridges in the apparatus. The cover includes a see-through...

20060082624 - Ink cartridge usable with a wide array type printer head: An ink cartridge usable with a wide array type printer head includes: an ink cartridge body extending in a lateral direction of a recording medium and having an ink storage space, at least one ink pipe formed at a bottom surface of the ink cartridge body and having at least...

20060082626 - Ink container: An ink container includes an ink containing unit having a housing which directly contains ink, an ink guide, a movable member changing the internal volume of the ink containing unit, and a buffer chamber. The buffer chamber allows changing the internal volume of the ink containing unit when the movable...

20060082625 - Liquid container and ink jet printing apparatus: A structure for informing a state of the ink tank by a light emitting section such as LED, capable of displaying such information at a position easily visible by the user and favorably sending the emitted light both to the user and a light receiver section on the printer side...

20060082623 - Strain relief for ink cartridge ink supply tube: An ink jet cartridge for use in a continuous cartridge refill system has a top side, a front side, and a handle at the juncture therebetween. A flexible ink supply tube for connecting the cartridge with an ink reservoir extends through openings in the handle of the cartridge and is...

20060082627 - Formulation and method for depositing a material on a substrate: A formulation for depositing a material on a substrate, the formulation comprising the material to be deposited on the substrate dissolved in a solvent system comprising a first solvent component having a relatively high boiling point and which exhibits a relatively low solubility with respect to the material to be...

20060082628 - Ink composition for ink jet recording and ink jet recording method: An ink composition for ink jet recording, comprising: a dispersion medium; and a charged particle comprising a coloring material, wherein the ink composition comprises at least one basic carbon black as the coloring material....

20060082629 - Water based ink set for ink-jet recording and inkjet recording method: A water based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a yellow ink, a magenta ink, a cyan ink, a black ink, and a red ink and/or a blue ink each including at least a coloring agent, water and a water soluble organic solvent. In the water based ink set, a...

20060082630 - Water based ink set for ink-jet recording and inkjet recording method: A water based ink set for ink-jet recording has a yellow ink, a magenta ink and a cyan ink each having at least a coloring agent, water and a water soluble organic solvent. The coloring agent of each of the black ink and the red ink is a pigment and...

20060082631 - Image forming apparatus, image forming process, recording composition, and cartridge: Provided is an ink jet image forming process with which discharge bending of nozzle due to colorant deposition does not occur and which yields images without white streaks. Accordingly, provided is an image forming apparatus comprising a recording head which sprays a recording composition containing a colorant dispersion toward a...

20060082632 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus is provided which is capable of detecting a width and a position of a recording paper sheet with a simple configuration and does not cause a positional deviation of an image. The recording apparatus includes a carriage configured to reciprocate and having a recording head mounted thereon,...

20060082633 - Recording apparatus: This invention relates to a recording apparatus, comprising an opening delivering a recording medium after completion of recording and a cover capable of closing the opening in moving pivotally and a holding rib formed at the cover for holding a rear end as well as both sides of the delivered...

20060082634 - Electrostatic latent image forming medium using optical shutter array and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image forming medium, a charge unit charging the surface of the electrostatic latent image forming medium with a predetermined potential, a toner supply unit (TSU) supplying toner to an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrostatic latent image forming...

20060082635 - Light scanning unit and image forming apparatus employing the same: A light scanning unit, which can prevent contamination using a photocatalytic layer, and an image forming apparatus employing the same. The light scanning unit includes a light source to switch on and off to generate at least one beam that corresponds to an image signal, a beam deflector to deflect...

20060082636 - Thermal printer: In order to provide a thermal printer, which can reliably pressure-contact a recording paper made of thick paper to a platen roller with a small motor and print high quality images, a thermal printer of the invention includes head supporting members, which support a thermal head to head up/down with...

20060082637 - Printer: Provided is a printer capable of performing printing on both of a heat-sensitive adhesive label and an ordinary label in which release paper is stuck onto an adhesive surface. A thermal printer is composed of a roll housing unit which holds a tape-like heat-sensitive adhesive label and a tape-like ordinary...

20060082638 - Printing and thermal activation method and device for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet: Provided is a printing and thermal activation device for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet that is compact, lightweight, and simple in structure. The heat-sensitive adhesive device for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet includes a thermal head capable of printing on a printable layer and thermal activation for a heat-sensitive adhesive layer. When...

20060082639 - Light scanning unit: A light scanning unit according to the present invention has a polygon motor that scans a laser beam emitted from a laser source, a plate that supports the polygon motor, and a cover that is fixed to the plate and covers the polygon motor. The polygon motor, plate, and cover...

20060082640 - Laser induced thermal imaging apparatus and method of fabricating organic light emitting display using the same: A donor substrate for a laser induced thermal imaging method and an organic light emitting display manufactured using the same are provided. A laser induced thermal imaging apparatus includes a stage grounded by a grounding means, and a method of fabricating an organic light emitting display is capable of controlling...

20060077215 - 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 operation, a recording image signal and a clock signal, recording...

20060077216 - Ink jet recording apparatus and control method therefor: The invention is to provide a user-friendly ink jet recording apparatus capable of preventing a sudden ink exhaustion and a resulting unclear print by canceling the no-ink error signal without an ink tank replacement. In the ink jet recording apparatus, in case of a no-ink error signal, a no-ink timer...

20060077218 - Method for controlling an image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and program for controlling an image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided which is adapted to control image reading and recording operations in a balanced manner, thereby reducing power consumption includes image reading and recording portions; a power supply portion configured to supply power to the reading and recording portions in common; a detecting portion for...

20060077217 - Thermal drop generator: A silicon die having an orifice layer with plural openings formed therein defines a drop ejection device for use in a handheld inhaler. An underlying control layer defines fluid chambers, each carrying a heat transducer. A control system energizes selected heat transducers to heat fluid in the chambers, vaporizing the...

20060077220 - Ink jet printer: When there is a difference in moving speed of an endless belt in a widthwise direction, a printing sheet fed by this endless belt becomes inclined, and a pattern to be printed becomes inclined or distorted. To deal with this problem, a first detector for detecting moving speed is formed...

20060077219 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus: The liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid droplet ejection head which includes a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with a plurality of nozzles through which droplets of liquid is ejected toward a recording medium; a plurality of resistance elements which determine pressure inside the pressure chambers, the resistance elements...

20060077221 - Microfluidic substrates having improved fluidic channels: A method for improving fluidic flow for a microfluidic device having a through hole or slot therein. The method includes the steps of forming one or more openings through at least part of a thickness of a substrate from a first surface to an opposite second surface using a reactive...

20060077222 - Fluid-ejection device connector: Apparatus and methods are provided. A fluid-ejection device connector has a body having a plurality of internal channels, a plurality of flexible first couplers protruding from an exterior portion of the body, and a plurality of second couplers protruding from another exterior portion of the body. The internal channels respectively...

20060077223 - Maintenance unit and ink jet printer: For an ink jet printer, a maintenance unit having a simple mechanism that ensures a stable well-closed condition is provided. According to the present invention, rigid contact portions are provided in order to maintain a distance between an ink jet head and a cap in the perpendicular direction when the...

20060077224 - Printing apparatus and method: A printer comprises an arm mounted on a pivot member. The arm has a first portion adapted to move along an arcuate path. A drive motor rotates the arm about the pivot member. An electromagnetic radiation emitter mounted on the first portion is adapted to emit pulses onto an electromagnetic...

20060077225 - Ink-jet head mount and ink-jet printing apparatus using the same: An ink-jet head mount to guide positions of ink-jet heads with a high precision and an ink-jet printing apparatus including the same. The ink-jet printing apparatus includes an ink-jet head having a plurality of nozzles to eject ink, an ink-jet head mount in which the ink-jet head is installed and...

20060077226 - Printer and head unit fabricating method: In a head unit of a printer, a head (5A) has outlet rows (611, 612, 621 and 622) arranged along a first tilt direction and a gap between outlets in the outlet rows (611 and 612) is interpolated with a outlet in the outlet rows (621 and 622) by a...

20060077227 - Bonding structure, actuator device and liquid-jet head: A bonding structure comprising bonding wires having a diameter A, bonding pads to which the bonding wires are connected, and bonding portions which, as sites of connection, are arranged on a straight line, and wherein the pitch P of the bonding portions is set at XA+σ or more where 1.80≦X≦2.1,...

20060077229 - Liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head comprises: ejection elements which include a plurality of ejection holes through which liquid is ejected, a plurality of pressure chambers in communication with the plurality of ejection holes, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements each of which deforms each of the pressure chambers and is provided...

20060077228 - Photonically activated fluid dispensing system and methods: A fluid dispensing system, including a photon source disposed on a moveable carriage and a fluid ejector array having a plurality of fluid ejection elements disposed on a substrate. Each fluid ejection element includes a fluid ejector, and a photodetector electrically coupled to the fluid ejector. Moving said photon source...

20060077230 - Control electrode for rapid initiation and termination of particle flow: An electrostatic gating assembly utilizing at least three electrodes is disclosed. The assembly is particularly well suited for controlled administration of small particles....

20060077231 - Electrostatic gating: Various systems and techniques are disclosed for stopping, selectively controlling, and optimizing a flow of particles in a flowing stream. The systems and techniques utilize a multi-electrode assembly and various voltage waveforms applied to those electrodes. The particles flow past or near the electrode assembly and their flow is controlled...

20060077232 - Ink jet recording apparatus and ink jet recording method: The ink jet recording method and apparatus convey a recording medium to a position opposing an ink jet head by a conveyor and record an image onto the recording medium conveyed to the position with the ink jet head by ejecting ink droplets from at least one ejection portion toward...

20060077233 - Ink jet recording head and ink discharge method: An ink jet recording head is provided with one heat generating member in each of ink flow paths, and the discharge port thereof is arranged on the extended line extending in the normal direction from the center of the main surface of the heat generating member to the surface of...

20060077234 - Thermal ink jet printhead with suspended beam heater: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble (12) forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a...

20060077235 - Inkjet printhead integrated circuit having an array of inkjet nozzles: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink passages. An array of control and drive circuits is positioned on the substrate, each control and drive circuit having a drive transistor that includes a series of parallel traces. An array of inkjet nozzles is arranged...

20060077236 - Modular printhead assembly with respective flexible printed circuit boards: A printhead assembly for an ink jet printer includes an elongate carrier. An elongate ink supply structure defines at least one longitudinally extending ink passage and at least one set of holes in fluid communication with the at least one ink passage. The ink supply structure is mounted in the...

20060077237 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead capable of reducing a crosstalk and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The inkjet printhead includes an upper substrate, an intermediate substrate, and a lower substrate that are sequentially stacked, wherein the upper substrate includes piezoelectric actuators on an upper surface of the upper...

20060077238 - Ink reservoir for an inkjet printing mechanism: An ink container for supplying ink to an inkjet print head includes a reservoir for storing the ink, and the reservoir has an outlet. The container further includes a plurality of non-porous particles placed inside the reservoir at least at two different spacings from adjacent particles for controlling a capillary...

20060077239 - Printhead assembly with a laminated ink distribution assembly: A pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate ink distribution arrangement that defines a number of inlets, a number of corresponding ink distribution channels and a number of outlets in fluid communication with respective ink distribution channels. An elongate ink distribution assembly is mounted on the ink distribution arrangement. The...

20060077240 - Ink for ink-jet recording and ink-jet recording method: An object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording ink ensuring 1) excellent weather resistance (image preservability), 2) less blurring of image drawn and 3) high ejection stability. This object of the present invention can be attained by an inkjet recording ink, which may comprise multiple aqueous...

20060077241 - Digitally active 3-d object creation system: A three dimensional object creation system that prints objects layer by layer, the system including a plurality of printheads (102), the system printing at least part of each of multiple layers (110, 114, 118 etc) simultaneously....

20060077242 - Printer and printing control method: A printing device has a first part and a second part and prints an image on a medium adapted to be transported from the first part to the second part in a transport direction and having a notch disposed at a back end portion in the transport direction. A printing...

20060077243 - System and method for ink jet printing of solvent/oil based inks using ink-receptive coatings: A system and method for printing an ink jet ink based on solvent, oil, or both solvent and oil in selected areas of nonabsorbent and semi-nonabsorbent substrates includes applying a coating receptive to the solvent- and/or oil-based ink jet ink in the selected areas, for example with printing station having...

20060077244 - System and method for ink jet printing of water-based inks using ink-receptive coating: A system and method for printing aqueous ink jet ink in selected areas of nonabsorbent and semi-nonabsorbent substrates includes applying an ink-receptive coating in the selected areas, for example with printing station having a printing and drying unit for applying the ink-receptive coating in the desired area or areas of...

20060077245 - Image forming device: The image forming apparatus has sheet ejecting rollers (4) arranged below a sheet transport path. The apparatus also has sheet pinch rollers (8), a first lift-preventing roller (1), and a second lift-preventing roller (16) arranged above the sheet transport path. The rollers (8), the roller (1), and the roller (16)...

20060077246 - Information processing apparatus and its control method: When the convey behavior of a flexible medium conveyed in a conveying path is analyzed by simulation, a design support apparatus of this invention executes 1) processing for approximating a nip on a model to an actual nip, 2) processing for matching a feature point of a drive chart with...

20060077247 - Inkjet recording material, printing matter laminate using it and production method for printing matter pasting element: A material for inkjet recording which can be printed by the inkjet recording method using a pigment-based ink of the nonaqueous type obtained by dispersing pigments in a nonaqueous medium containing a glycol ether as the main component, exhibits excellent properties of drying, fixing and printing the ink and excellent...

20060077248 - Printing cartridge incorporating print media and an internal feed mechanism: A printing cartridge includes a cover that defines a cylindrical storage volume and a print media feed slot. A cylindrical hollow core extends along a central axis of the cover. At least one ink container is positioned in the core. A length of print media is rolled about the core...

20060077249 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus in which an input module, an output module, a process module, and a memory have a plurality of ports and are connected by a packet switch having independent paths for data transmission, a path controlling part determines a process path based on data information from...

20060077250 - Thermal image forming apparatus: A thermal image forming apparatus is provided. The thermal image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a thermal printhead and a platen that face each other and are elastically biased towards each other; a cassette including a knock-up plate on which a medium is stacked, a pickup roller...

20060071951 - Compensation for vertical skew between adjacent rows of nozzles on a printhead module: A printer controller for supplying dot data to a printhead in a predetermined order, the printhead comprising at least first and second printhead modules, each comprising a plurality of printing nozzles and being disposed adjacent each other such that a printing width of the printhead is wider than a printing...

20060071952 - Display control method and apparatus for printer: A multifunction machine includes cartridge accommodation portions provided at different positions. Each of the accommodation portions accommodates multiple ink cartridges. If the ink remaining amount of at least one of the cartridges is smaller than a threshold value, a display control section determines that the cartridge requires replacement and operates...

20060071954 - Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method, information processing device and program: It is an object of this invention to provide an ink jet printing apparatus having excellent throughput which can continue the printing operation without interruption if a part of line heads falls into an unprintable state when the apparatus is printing images of the same color using a plurality of...

20060071956 - Method of printing with a personal computer and connected printer: A method of printing with a personal computer and connected printer includes the step of rendering contone data to a pixel level and subsequently compressing the contone data in the personal computer. The bi-level data is rendered to a dot level and subsequently compressed in the personal computer. Compressed page...

20060071953 - Printer, and method for controlling print controller: A printer 1 has an I/F section 31 for receiving data from a PC 2, a parameter-deriving section 35b for deriving a control constant on the basis of print setting information included in the received data, and a printer section 11 which performs printing operation on the basis of the...

20060071955 - Printing apparatus, printing program, printing method and printing data generating apparatus, printing data generating program, printing data generating method, and recording medium recording the programs: A printing apparatus which prints plural dots on a printing medium by a printing head to form a predetermined image, including: an image data acquirement unit acquiring image data corresponding to the predetermined image; a data conversion unit converting the image data, for each pixel, into printing data relating to...

20060071957 - Droplet visualization of inkjetting: The embodiments of the present invention describe an apparatus and a method of visualizing droplets dispensed from an inkjet printing system. A droplet visualization system is integrated with the inkjet printing system and is capable of measuring the sizes and the speeds of dispensed inkjet droplets and capturing the trajectories...

20060071958 - Pen alignment method and device for printing apparatus: A pen alignment method and apparatus used in a printing apparatus, which perform a pen alignment operation when the amount of ink contained in an ink cartridge of an inkjet printing apparatus is reduced to a predetermined value or less. The pen alignment method includes measuring the amount of ink...

20060071959 - Ink jet head: An ink jet head is presented that decreases the density in wiring patterns to be connected to a large number of actuator terminals formed on a main body of the ink jet head while ensuring large spacing between the wirings. The ink jet head comprises a main body, a driver...

20060071960 - Liquid ejection apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a nozzle through which liquid is ejected; a pressure chamber which accommodates the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle; a supply side flow path which fills the liquid from a supply system into the pressure chamber; an actuator which is provided on at least...

20060071961 - Liquid ejection apparatus, drive signal application method, and liquid ejection method: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: (A) a drive signal generation section generating first and second drive signals to be applied to an element that can execute a liquid-ejection operation; (B) a data output section outputting first selection data for setting an application state of the first drive signal to the...

20060071962 - Method of forming a print data stream with embedded commands: In response to a print job, a character code stream is generated including printable character codes. Each of the character codes is of a first bit length. Command codes to be embedded into the character code stream are padded with an identifier. The command codes and the identifier are of...

20060071964 - Liquid ejection apparatus and ejection abnormality determination method: The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: an ejection head which includes: a nozzle through which a droplet of liquid is ejected onto an ejection receiving medium; a pressure chamber which accommodates the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle; and a piezoelectric element which is provided at the pressure chamber and...

20060071963 - Method and system for automatically compensating for diagnosed banding defects prior to the performance of remedial service: A system that extends the operational effectiveness of an image reproduction machine without requiring downtime for service by personnel includes a detection subsystem that monitors components of an image reproduction system for detecting a banding defect in the image reproduction system and an automated compensation subsystem for modifying operation of...

20060071965 - Pump control mechanism, printer incorporating the same, and pump control method: A pump member is cyclically moved to apply an air pressure to a liquid supply source to thereby supply liquid stored therein to a reservoir member. A driving source is driven in accordance with control information to move the pump member. A position sensor senses a position of the pump...

20060071966 - Liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head comprises: an ejection port which ejects liquid onto an ejection receiving medium; a pressure chamber which applies pressure for ejection to the liquid to be ejected from the ejection port; and a plurality of pressure determination elements which are provided on at least one of wall...

20060071967 - Nozzle shield assembly: A nozzle shield assembly includes a band of material having a tag end, a standing end, a first side, and a second side; wherein the second side is at least partially folded against itself, and the standing end is configured to cover a nozzle of a print cartridge....

20060071968 - Head unit, a droplet ejection apparatus, a method of manufacturing a panel from a base, an image display apparatus and an electronic apparatus: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets. Each of the droplet ejection heads includes at least...

20060071969 - Liquid ejecting recording head and liquid ejecting recording apparatus: A liquid ejection recording head for effecting recording by ejecting first liquid and second liquid which is a different kind of liquid through different ejection outlets, while bidirectionally scanning a recording material in a scanning direction includes a group of first ejection outlet arrays each of which has a plurality...

20060071970 - Color inkjet print apparatus capable of changing orders of inks squirts: An apparatus for printing color inkjet images includes an image processing unit which processes source color data to generate output color data together with a signal indicative of an order of ink squirts in which a plurality of inks of respective colors are squirted onto a given pixel, and an...

20060071971 - Flexible wiring board and liquid discharge head: In an ink jet recording head including a flexible wiring board, the flexible wiring board has a thickness reduction part formed by reducing a film thickness of a part of the base film. The thickness reduction part is configured to alleviate stress applied to inner leads by a base film...

20060071975 - Droplet-discharging head, method for manufacturing the same, and droplet-discharging device: A droplet-discharging head comprising: a nozzle substrate in which a plurality of nozzle holes for discharging droplets are formed; a cavity substrate in which a recess to serve as a discharging chamber for pooling the droplets is formed, the recess having a diaphragm formed in a bottom face thereof; an...

20060071974 - Head unit, a droplet ejection apparatus, a method of manufacturing a panel from a base, an image display apparatus and an electronic apparatus: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets. Each of the droplet ejection heads includes at least...

20060071976 - Ink-jet printhead and method for manufacturing the same: An ink-jet printhead includes a substrate on which an ink chamber to be supplied with ink to be ejected is formed on a front surface of the substrate, a manifold for supplying ink to the ink chamber is formed on a rear surface of the substrate, and an ink passage...

20060071972 - Inkjet head, inkjet head module and method of producing the inkjet head: There are provided driving electrodes (25) on walls (24) separating both sides of individual ink chambers (22) formed in the form of an array of multiple grooves. External circuit connecting electrodes (11) for connecting these driving electrodes (25) to an external circuit are formed on exposed surface regions of electrically...

20060071973 - Magnetic actuator using ferrofluid slug: A magnetostatic actuator uses a ferrofluid slug confined in a cylindrical tube which is wrapped in a conducting coil. By applying a current to the coil, a magnetic field is generated inside the coil. The ferrofluid slug may be attracted to the interior of the coil by the interaction of...

20060071977 - Conductive bi-layer intermediate transfer belt for zero image blooming in field assisted ink jet printing: A transfer belt apparatus, system and method are provided to prevent image blooming. For example, an ink jet printing apparatus may include a grounded print head, a counter-electrode opposite the ground print head, and a bi-layer transfer belt provided between a print head and a counter-electrode and at least partially...

20060071978 - Non-conductive fluid droplet characterizing apparatus and method: A fluid droplet characterizing apparatus and method includes a pressurized source of a non-conductive fluid in fluid communication with a nozzle channel and a characterization electrode. The pressurized source is operable to form a jet of the non-conductive fluid through the nozzle channel. At least one portion of the characterization...

20060071979 - Liquid ejector and liquid ejecting method: The present invention is directed to a liquid discharge apparatus adapted for discharging inks from discharge holes, which comprises a control unit (68) for controlling a discharge control unit (63), wherein the control unit controls the discharge control unit in such a manner that pulse current delivered to one of...

20060071980 - Printing method, printing apparatus, printing system, and storage medium: A printing method that can suppress drops in voltage due to discharging of piezo elements is achieved. A printing method includes: generating a drive signal for driving a piezo element by selecting, based on print data, either a first original drive signal having a unit signal for defining the start...

20060071981 - Data rate supply proportional to the ratio of different printhead lengths: A printer controller configured to generate dot data for supply to a printhead which includes at least a first printhead integrated circuit and a second printhead integrated circuit positioned adjacent each other either side of a join region, the printer controller configured to transfer dot data to each of the...

20060071982 - Thermal ink jet printhead with heaters formed from low atomic number elements: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a gas...

20060071983 - Method for acoustically ejecting a droplet of fluid from a reservoir by an acoustic fluid ejection apparatus: The invention provides apparatuses and methods for acoustically ejecting the fluid from a reservoir contained in or disposed on a substrate. The reservoir has a portion adapted to contain a fluid, and an acoustic radiation generator is positioned in acoustic coupling relationship to the reservoir. Acoustic radiation generated by the...

20060071984 - Pattern forming structure, pattern forming method, device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: There is provided a barrier structure provided with a concave portion corresponding to a pattern formed out of a functional liquid, the barrier structure comprising: a first concave portion provided in the barrier to correspond to a first pattern; and a second concave portion that is connected to the first...

20060071985 - Fluid sensing apparatus for an ink supply system: An apparatus for use with an ink supply system of a printer includes a housing having an inlet, an outlet and a longitudinal fluid conduit extending therebetween. A fluid sensing device extends from a first side of the fluid conduit to an opposite side of the fluid conduit. A monitoring...

20060071986 - Modular printhead with consecutive printhead modules: A modular printhead includes a carrier. An elongate ink delivery member is mounted in the carrier and defines a plurality of longitudinal conduits for each carrying a respective type of ink. The elongate ink delivery member further defines a plurality of sets of apertures, each set including a plurality of...

20060071987 - Printhead assembly that incorporates a printhead module retention channel: A pagewidth printhead assembly includes an elongate channel member having a floor and a pair of opposed sidewalls and being of a resiliently flexible material. An elongate ink distribution member is positioned on the floor and defines a number of longitudinally extending ink conduits for conveying respective inks and defining...

20060071989 - Breachable seal: In one embodiment, a reservoir for holding a fluid includes a housing defining an enclosed chamber, the housing having a first opening therein at one part of the chamber and a second opening therein at a second part of the chamber above the first part of the chamber, a breachable...

20060071988 - System and method for integrated tape seal package: Products having sensitive regions, such as information handling system components have electrical connections or openings, are packaged with the sensitive region sealed. A sealing portion on the inner surface of a wrapper has an adhesive surface that adheres the wrapper to the sensitive region so that the wrapper encloses the...

20060071991 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus comprises: an ink application device which applies ink to a recording medium; a treatment liquid application device which applies treatment liquid which causes the ink to increase in viscosity or solidify, by reacting with the ink; an image processing device which generates image data of multiple...

20060071990 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus comprises: a first liquid application device which applies a first liquid to a recording medium; and an ejection head which ejects a second liquid onto the first liquid having been applied to the recording medium by the first liquid application device, wherein: a surface tension α1...

20060071992 - Inkjet inks providing improved wet smudge on porous print media: A printing system for use in inkjet printing. The printing system comprises an inkjet ink having a free binder and a modified pigment, a fixer fluid, and a porous print medium....

20060071994 - Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus, electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus of the present invention includes a cleaning unit, a regular flushing unit, capping unit, and an ejection-amount measuring unit as droplet ejecting head maintenance units used for function maintenance, function recovery, adjustment, or inspection of a liquid ejecting head. The droplet ejecting head maintenance units...

20060071993 - Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article, and article resulting therefrom: A method of printing an image on an object comprises the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of...

20060071995 - Ink-jet recording apparatus preventing recording surface of recording medium and paper discharge roller from contamination: With the width in the main scanning direction of the image region of which the recording width in the main scanning direction is the shortest of all of the image regions to be recorded on the recording surface of the recording medium as X1 in the main scanning direction, the...

20060071998 - Sheet handling device: A sheet handling device containing a sheet support element having a surface provided with suction holes which are connected to at least one suction chamber, the suction chamber being connected to a suction device adapted to create a subatmospheric pressure in the suction chamber, and a flow obstructing material arranged...

20060071996 - Sheet handling device with a temperature controlled sheet support plate: A sheet handling device including a sheet support plate made of a heat conductive material having a first heat capacity, said plate having at least one cavity formed between a top wall defining a top surface of the plate and a bottom wall defining a bottom surface of the plate;...

20060071997 - Sheet handling device with sheet support plate and temperature control system: A sheet handling device including a sheet support plate having at least one internal fluid cavity; and a temperature control system containing a temperature controller and a closed circulating system for circulating a temperature control liquid through the cavity and through the temperature controller, the circulating system including expansion means...

20060071999 - Cue sports cloth and method of pringting cue sports cloth: A cue sports cloth comprises a cloth with a playing surface having a design printed thereon. At least 30% of the area of the playing surface is printed with a camouflage design as defined by the function ΔE2<kΔE1, where ΔE, is a measure of complexity of the design, ΔE2 is...

20060072000 - Returner incorporated in automatic feeder, and recording apparatus or liquid or liquid ejecting apparatus provided with the same: A feeding tray supports a plurality of media the media thereon. A hopper is provided on the feeding tray so as to be movable in a first direction for pushing the media toward a feeding roller so that a top one of the media comes in contact with the feeding...

20060072001 - Thermal and inkjet printer: There is disclosed a method using thermal and inkjet printing and a combination thermal and inkjet printer includes a thermal print head, an inkjet print head and at least one motor for driving a web of record members, such as labels past the thermal print head and the inkjet print...

20060072002 - Scanning optical apparatus and color image forming apparatus using the same: A scanning optical apparatus includes a light source capable of being modulated, a deflecting element for deflecting and scanning a beam emitted from the light source, a scanning optical element for imaging the deflected beam into a spot shape on a scanned surface, and an optical element for synchronous detection...