Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 05/06

20060109287 - Pagewidth printing mechanism incorporating a capping mechanism: A pagewidth printing mechanism includes a support structure. A print media feed mechanism is arranged on the support structure to feed print media along a feed path. A pagewidth printhead assembly is mounted on the support structure to span a print media feed path. The printhead assembly includes an ink...

20060109288 - Printer with digital photograph storage and display: A portable device for viewing and printing digital photo images is provided which has a digital storage device for storing digital photo images, a display screen for displaying the digitally stored images, and a printer having a pagewidth ink jet print head for printing the digitally stored images onto print...

20060109289 - Method and system for calculating ink residue and ink container: In an ink residue calculating method where the ink residue is calculated by obtaining ink discharge discharged from an ink container on the basis of the number of rotations of a drive motor of an ink supply pump which sucks ink from the ink container and discharges the same and...

20060109290 - Methods and apparatus for a high resolution inkjet fire pulse generator: The invention provides methods, systems, and drivers for controlling an inkjet printing system. The driver may include logic including a processor, memory coupled to the logic, and a fire pulse generator circuit coupled to the logic. The fire pulse generator may include a connector to facilitate coupling the driver to...

20060109292 - Head substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus using the printhead or head cartridge: Disclosed are a head substrate, a printhead, a head cartridge, and a printing apparatus using the printhead or head cartridge which are capable of separately measuring variations in the resistance of a printing element and variations in the parasitic resistance including the wiring resistance and the ON resistance of a...

20060109291 - 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...

20060109293 - Method for reducing thermal accumulation during inkjet printing: A method for printing an image on a printing medium with an inkjet printing device includes providing data representative of an original image, calculating a total heat weighting value for the original image to indicate a degree of heat accumulation for the original image, and comparing the total heat weighting...

20060109295 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: a liquid droplets ejection head which has a plurality of nozzles in a main scanning direction, the liquid droplets ejection head ejecting droplets of liquid toward a predetermined recording medium from one of the nozzles selected from the plurality of nozzles according to a predetermined...

20060109294 - Progressive and fast printmask revision based on incremental changes to printing element condition: When condition of a printing element (e.g. inkjet nozzle) changes, essentially full mask rows invoking the element are redone from scratch, best so as to fully satisfy pixel-grid neighbor conditions. This is faster than redoing a whole mask as in prior popup or precook/reheat methods, and yields better printouts than...

20060109297 - Image alignment method and device for biochip-manufacturing apparatus: An image alignment device and method for a biochip-manufacturing apparatus. The biochip-manufacturing apparatus comprises a conveying device and a plurality of dispensers. The image alignment device comprises an image pickup unit and a plurality of adjusting units. The image pickup unit is disposed on the conveying device. The conveying device...

20060109296 - Methods and apparatus for inkjet printing color filters for displays: The invention provides methods, systems, and drivers for controlling an inkjet printing system. The driver may include logic including a processor, memory coupled to the logic, and a fire pulse generator circuit coupled to the logic. The fire pulse generator includes a connector to facilitate coupling the driver to a...

20060109298 - Image forming apparatus capable of performing maintenance operations using usage pattern and a method for the same: An image forming apparatus capable of performing maintenance operations using a usage pattern and a method for the same. The method for performing a maintenance operation of cleaning a printing unit of the image forming apparatus comprises the steps of recording printing work information when a command for the maintenance...

20060109299 - Liquid-ejection integrated circuit device that incorporates a nozzle guard with containment structures: A liquid-ejection integrated circuit includes a substrate that defines a plurality of liquid inlet channels. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is positioned on the substrate, each defining a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a respective liquid inlet channel and a liquid...

20060109300 - Ink jet printing apparatus and preliminary ejecting method: The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus and a preliminary ejecting method. In both a full-line and a serial printer, the amount of ink passing through nozzles of print heads is sometimes decreased below a normal value before and during actual printing. In the printer of present invention,...

20060109301 - Capping mechanism driven by paper transport: This invention concerns a printhead capping mechanism for preventing evaporation of ink from a printhead when it is not in use. The invention has utility, for instance, in a color printer which uses a drop-on-demand inkjet printhead. The mechanism includes a cap fitted with an elastomeric seal to seal against...

20060109302 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer is provided. The inkjet printer includes a printing head comprising a nozzle unit having a length corresponding to a width of a printing medium. The printing head also has a cleaning device comprising a wiper removing ink remaining on an output section of the nozzle unit while...

20060109303 - Device for post-processing of a print substrate web printed by an electrographic printing or copying device: A device for post-processing of printed print substrate webs comprises a smoothing device that is arranged immediately after the fixing device. The toner (still hot and doughy in terms of its consistency) is compressed with a predetermined pressure over a width of the print substrate web. It is thus achieved...

20060109304 - Method and apparatus for mounting an inkjet printhead: In a high-speed phase change ink image producing machine having a controller, there is provided apparatus and a method of using it to mount an ink jet printhead unit in an ink jet printing machine for minimizing printing defects due thermal expansion effects. The method includes (a) first mounting a...

20060109305 - Inkjet printhead having low pressure ink ejection zone: An inkjet printhead is provided comprising ink ejection nozzles arranged to eject ink from respective ink chambers onto media through respective apertures of the ink chambers and respective passages spaced from the apertures, and a fluid director arranged to direct a fluid into the space between the apertures and passages...

20060109306 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer is provided. The inkjet printer includes a print head having a nozzle unit as wide as a sheet of paper, and a waste ink storing apparatus extending across the width of the print head and having a multi-absorption structure to absorb and store waste ink remained around...

20060109307 - Wide-format print engine with a pagewidth ink reservoir assembly: A wide-format inkjet print engine includes an elongate chassis. A channel member is mounted on the chassis. The channel member and the chassis span a print zone. An ink reservoir assembly is mounted in the channel member and defines at least one ink reservoir that extends a length of the...

20060109308 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device includes a binarization unit for converting a pixel value of image data into binary data, the pixel value showing a gradation value of a pixel, the image data including a plurality of pixels, the pixels being laid out as a matrix, the binary data showing a...

20060109309 - Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity: A doubly-anchored thermal actuator for a micro-electromechanical device such as a liquid drop emitter or a fluid control microvalve is disclosed. The thermal actuator is comprised of a base element formed with a depression having opposing anchor. A deformable element, attached to the base element at the opposing anchor edges,...

20060109310 - Ink chamber having a baffle unit: An ink chamber for an ink supply system in a printer. The ink chamber comprises a baffle unit housed within a housing. The baffle unit comprises a plurality of baffles. The baffle unit is divided into a plurality of separate sections....

20060109311 - Inkjet printer having thermally stable modular printhead: A printer has a plurality of nozzles formed on a substrate. Nozzle chambers receive an ink and a nozzle actuator receives drive signals from drive circuitry formed on the substrate. Upon actuation, the nozzle actuators move to eject ink from the nozzle chamber. Wicking of fluid across the substrate is...

20060109312 - Inkjet printhead having rectilinear actuated ink ejection nozzles: An inkjet printhead comprising a plurality of micro-electromechanical ink ejection nozzles is provided. Each nozzle comprises a nozzle chamber positioned on a substrate, and actuators and associated coupling structures for ejecting ink from the chamber. The nozzle chamber has a static nozzle section and an active nozzle section. The static...

20060109313 - Liquid ejection device with a commonly composed actuator and liquid ejector: A liquid-ejection integrated circuit device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels. Integrated 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 a respective liquid inlet...

20060109314 - Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity: A doubly-anchored thermal actuator for a micro-electromechanical device such as a liquid drop emitter or a fluid control microvalve is disclosed. The thermal actuator is comprised of a base element formed with a depression having opposing anchor. A deformable element, attached to the base element at the opposing anchor edges,...

20060109315 - Method of manufacturing liquid discharge head, and liquid discharge head: According to the present invention, there are provided an ink jet recording head capable of performing high-precision printing and recording and having a high reliability, and a method of manufacturing the head. The ink jet recording head of the present invention has: an element substrate on whose surface an ink...

20060109316 - Storage and semiconductor device: A storage device includes a storage element having characteristics such that the resistance value thereof changes from a high state to a low state as a result of an electrical signal higher than or equal to a first threshold signal being applied and changes from a low state to a...

20060109317 - Switch with concentric curvilinear heater resistor: In one embodiment, first and second mated substrates of a switch define there between at least portions of a number of cavities. A switching fluid is held within one or more of the cavities and is moveable between at least first and second switch states in response to forces that...

20060109318 - Inkjet printhead having reverse ink flow prevention: An inkjet printhead is provided comprising a plurality of ink chambers on a first surface of a substrate, each ink chamber having an ink ejection nozzle, a heater arranged in each ink chamber so as to heat ink within the ink chamber to form a gas bubble therein and thereby...

20060109319 - Liquid ejecting head: A liquid ejecting head includes a passage unit, having a nozzle opening, a pressure generating chamber communicating with the nozzle opening, and a reservoir holding a liquid to be supplying to the pressure generating chamber, a head case on which the passage unit is attached, a pressure generating element for...

20060109320 - Inkjet cartridge refilling machine and method: The present invention relates to inkjet cartridges, and more specifically, to a machine and process for use in refilling such inkjet cartridges....

20060109321 - Apparatus and method for controlling the pressure in an ink reservoir of an ink jet printer: A method and apparatus for controlling pressure in an ink reservoir of an ink jet printer containing liquid ink and a gas volume above the level of the ink....

20060109322 - Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing apparatus is provided which can produce an image in good condition without contaminating the interior of the printing apparatus or the back of the print medium if the “marginless printing” using an ink that tends to coagulate is performed. To that end, a step is provided...

20060109324 - Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus:

20060109323 - Ink jet set for reducing intercolor bleed: An ink set for reducing intercolor bleed and a multi-colored ink jet printing process utilizing the same is provided. The ink set comprises a black ink composition and a plurality of color ink jet ink compositions comprising a colorant and an ink vehicle. The ink vehicle of at least one...

20060109326 - Ink jet printing method, ink jet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing method and apparatus are provided which, even when an ink containing a colorant with a coagulating property is applied to a glossy print medium; enable to keep the glossiness of the print medium from being degraded. For this purpose, when forming an image on a glossy...

20060109325 - Printing apparatus and printing method: In order to prevent the event that a printing sheet is smudged with a micro ink droplet, in a printing apparatus that forms a dot in a desired position of the printing sheet by ejecting the ink droplet from a nozzle, a static electricity eliminating mechanism (a sheet feed roller...

20060109328 - Fast-drying, radiofrequency-activatable inkjet inks and methods and systems for their use: The present invention provides methods of drying radiofrequency-activatable inkjet inks, methods for customizing the radiofrequency parameters of an RF source based on pre-selected printing conditions, and methods for selecting or formulating an RF inkjet ink composition based on pre-selected printing conditions and/or printing equipment. The invention further provides radiofrequency-activatable inks...

20060109329 - Printer with a paper treatment system: A printer having a sheet feed system for feeding an image receiving sheet to a print station, and a sheet treatment system for subjecting the paper to an anti-cockle treatment including a humidity sensor arranged to detect the degree of humidity of ambient air, and a control system adapted to...

20060109327 - Radiofrequency activated inkjet inks and apparatus for inkjet printing: This invention relates to fast-drying RF inkjet composition and apparatus for inkjet printing RF inkjet compositions. The compositions and apparatus are useful for inkjet printing onto a variety of media including both porous and non-porous substrates. The RF inkjet composition desirably includes RF susceptors combined with polar carriers which may...

20060109330 - Printer with a reel for supplying an endless web of a recording medium: A printer including a reel for supplying a recording medium in the form of a coil of an endless web wound on the reel, a feed path leading from the reel to a print station, a cutting device disposed at the feed path for cutting the web, and a feed...

20060109331 - Ink-jet printer: An ink-jet printer, including: a casing; a head unit which is disposed in the casing and which includes (a) a carriage that moves reciprocably relative to a recording medium and (b) a recording head mounted on the carriage for ejecting ink droplets from a plurality of nozzle holes; and a...

20060109333 - Image-forming element for a printing apparatus with a multiplex circuit for driving the image-forming electrodes: An image-forming element for a printing apparatus which includes a support structure with a plurality of electrodes of a first type disposed thereon and an electronic control unit for energizing the electrodes. The image-forming element further includes a plurality of electrodes of a second type, each one of said electrodes...

20060109332 - Ion generator: To provide an ion generator and an image forming apparatus which control selective ion generation by a voltage lower than the conventional voltage, and are inexpensive and sized as small as possible. In an ion generator which selectively generates ions, ion generation is controlled by temperature control of discharge electrode...

20060109334 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus 100 according to the present invention comprises four image forming units 100a, 100b, 100c, and 100d configured to be photoreceptor cleanerless in a 4-drum tandem manner. Each image forming unit includes a photoreceptor 103a, 103b, 103c, or 103d, a charger 105a, 105b, 105c, or 105d, an...

20060109335 - Serial printing with multiple torsional hinged mems mirrors: System and method for operating four resonant torsional hinged mirrors such as torsional hinged MEMS devices at the same oscillating frequency suitable for use in a color printer requiring four serially arranged line printers....

20060109336 - Apparatus and method for setting print condition according to thermal printhead: An apparatus is provided for setting a print condition according to a TPH (thermal printhead) of a thermal image forming apparatus that includes a TPH ID (identifier) identification portion identifying TPH vendor information by decoding an ID of the TPH. A print condition storing portion stores a predetermined print condition...

20060109337 - Method and apparatus for controlling printing in thermal printer: A system and method is provided for controlling printing in a thermal printer which includes measuring a temperature of a thermal printhead (TPH), heating the TPH by applying a TPH driving strobe pulse when the temperature of the TPH is lower than a first set temperature, and printing on a...

20060109338 - Method of driving print head and image forming apparatus employing the same: A method of driving a print head and an image forming apparatus employing the same are provided, wherein recording elements of the print head are divided into n groups and are driven to print an image on a medium, wherein recording elements from the respective n groups, that is, one...

20060103687 - Apparatus for jetting an alignment agent: An apparatus for jetting an alignment agent includes a jetting head having a jetting hole, an alignment agent externally provided onto a substrate and a viscosity controlling part controlling a viscosity of the alignment agent stored in the jetting head to facilitate jetting of the alignment agent. The alignment agent...

20060103688 - Image processing method and apparatus, image forming apparatus and system, program and recording medium: Recording data is produced from first image data corresponding to each pixel with a first number of gradations so as to supplied to a recording apparatus, which expresses each pixel with a number of gradations smaller than the first number of gradations. Second image data is produced by converting the...

20060103689 - Method for splitting a print image data plane for printing with multiple printheads: A method for splitting a print image data plane for printing with multiple printheads includes replicating the print image data plane into a plurality of print image data planes corresponding to the multiple printheads, linearizing the plurality of print image data planes, and half-toning the plurality of print image data...

20060103690 - Inkjet printer: There is disclosed an inkjet printer including: a printhead having a front surface in which is formed at least one nozzle row consisting of a plurality of nozzles from each of which a droplet of ink is ejected; a maintenance unit including a purge cap which receives ink from the...

20060103691 - Fluid ejection device nozzle array configuration: A fluid ejection device and a printhead including one or more such fluid ejection devices are provided. The fluid ejection device includes a substrate having a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, each array having a plurality of nozzles and being arranged along a first direction, the first...

20060103692 - Ink jet apparatus: A drop emitting apparatus including a manifold, a viscoelastic structure acoustically coupled to the manifold, and a plurality of drop generators fluidically coupled to the manifold....

20060103693 - Inkjet print head and method of fabricating the same: An inkjet print head and method of fabricating the same. The inkjet print head includes: a substrate having an ink-feed hole, an interlayer dielectric layer formed around the ink-feed hole on the substrate, at least one metal layer formed on the interlayer dielectric layer, and an anti-moisture part formed between...

20060103694 - Cnt print head array: Print head array technology composed of single or multiple carbon nano tubes formed on one substrate and actively controlled by electrical bias to reproduce nano scale patterning with high throughput production of integrated circuits. The CNT print head can perform as a thermo print head, an electron beam print head,...

20060103696 - Inkjet printhead having nozzles capable of simultaneous injection: An inkjet printhead includes a plurality of heaters connected with an electrode wiring and having a first end connected with a driving electrode, and a chamber pattern forming an ink chamber at each heater. The chamber pattern includes conductive material and forms a common grounding wiring electrically connected with a...

20060103695 - Thin film and thick film heater and control architecture for a liquid drop ejector: A liquid drop ejector comprising a jet stack, thin film or thick film heaters formed on the surface of the jet stack, and at least one thin film or thick film temperature sensor operative to provide feedback temperature control for the thin film or thick film heater elements is provided....

20060103697 - Protection of nozzle structures in a liquid-ejection integrated circuit device: A liquid-ejection integrated circuit device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of liquid inlet channels. A drive circuitry layer 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 communication with a respective inlet...

20060103698 - Droplet ejection device: A droplet ejection device including: a cavity unit having nozzles and pressure chambers; an actuator unit including actuators corresponding to the respective pressure chambers, such that each actuator is operable to change a volume of the corresponding pressure chamber whereby a droplet is ejected from the corresponding pressure chamber through...

20060103699 - Printhead: Devices used to degas and eject fluid drops are disclosed. Devices include a flow path that includes a pumping chamber in which fluid is pressurized for ejection of a fluid drop, and a semi-permeable membrane including an inorganic material having an outer surface positioned in fluid contact with the flow...

20060103700 - Ink jet head: Pressure fluctuations that occur inside an ink jet head will be controlled. The ink jet head has a body. A common ink storage chamber is formed inside the body. A plurality of nozzles and a plurality of pressure chambers are formed in the surface of the body. One nozzle corresponds...

20060103701 - Ink cartridge with semiconductor storage device: A cartridge is provided for use with an associated printing apparatus. The cartridge includes a housing, a semiconductor storage device for storing data, a plurality of contacts for connecting the semiconductor storage device with an associated printing apparatus, and a printed circuit board held in a fixed relationship relative to...

20060103702 - Protector for ink cartridge: A protector for use with an ink cartridge. The ink cartridge includes an ink chamber which stores an ink; an ink supply hole through which the ink is supplied from the ink chamber to an outside of the ink cartridge and which opens in a hole-open portion of an outer...

20060103703 - Cyan ink, ink set, set of ink and reaction liquid, and image forming method: Provided is a cyan ink applicable to an ink set having four kinds of aqueous inks composed of the cyan ink, a magenta ink, a yellow ink, and a black ink each containing water; a water-insoluble coloring material; and plurality of water-soluble organic solvents including a good medium or good...

20060103706 - Ink jet ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus: Provided is an ink jet ink comprising at least a coloring material comprising a compound represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof; and a compound represented by the general formula (II). Thereby, there can be provided an ink jet ink that provides image quality comparable to silver...

20060103705 - Ink, ink jet recording method, recording unit, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet ink contains at least a coloring material and a specific water-soluble organic solvent and has both excellent color developability and excellent humidity resistance. The coloring material exhibits a small (9 or less) color difference ΔE value which is determined by a method including a series of specific...

20060103704 - Recording method, ink cartridge, and image-forming method: A recording method is provided which enables formation of an image with high image density and low graininess. The recording is conducted by using a recording method using a first aqueous ink for higher-density recording and a second aqueous ink for lower-density recording, characterized in that the first aqueous ink...

20060103707 - Media print system: A media print system includes a first print unit, a second print unit, at least one actuator configured to move the first unit and the second unit relative to one another and a controller configured to generate control signals. The at least one actuator positions the first unit and the...

20060103711 - Ink-jet recording apparatus and recording method therefor: A recording apparatus has a recording head, a platen, and a first hole. The recording head includes a dot formation element array, and the platen holds a recording medium opposite the recording head. The first hole is disposed in an area of the platen opposite a downstream portion of the...

20060103708 - Printer: A printer including a printhead which is displaceable at the level of a print surface in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a substrate situated in the print surface, and a supply unit for storing the substrate which is disposed on a core and...

20060103709 - Thermal printing device with an improved image registration, method for printing an image using said printing device and system for printing an image: A printing device that includes a platen for supporting an imaging member during a printing operation and at least one print head subassembly for direct thermal printing on the imaging member. The print head subassembly is configured to be movable independently of the platen for printing on a first surface...

20060103710 - Thermal printing device, method for printing an image using said printing device and system for printing an image: A printing device that includes a platen for supporting an imaging member during a printing operation and at least one print head subassembly for direct thermal printing on the imaging member. The print head subassembly can be configured to be movable independently of the platen for printing on a first...

20060103712 - Multi-beam image output apparatus and method: An object of this invention is to provide an image output apparatus which outputs a high-quality image by using a small number of pixel clock generation units. This invention provides an image output apparatus which is connected to a printing engine, having a plurality of laser beam control units for...

20060103714 - Thermal printer: In a thermal head, a heating element array is formed in a head substrate. Both ends of the head substrate are attached to a pair of support plates by a bolt. Plural pins protruding toward the head substrate are provided in the support plate. A gap is formed between the...

20060103713 - Thermal transfer image forming apparatus and method using low voltage differential signaling method: An image forming apparatus and method using a thermal printhead that prints an image by heating a medium are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a data input unit which receives image data to be printed, a control unit which generates a control signal used for driving the thermal printhead...

20060103715 - Thermal printing device, method for printing an image using said printing device and system for printing an image: A printing device that includes a platen for supporting an imaging member during a printing operation and at least one print head subassembly for direct thermal printing on the imaging member. The print head subassembly is configured to be movable independently of the platen for printing on a first surface...

20060103716 - Image forming apparatus: The optical path of scanning light E1 reaching the photosensitive drum 82a closest to the installation plane S of a plurality of photosensitive drums 82a, 82b, 82c, and 82d is provided at the photosensitive drum side with respect to the optical path of scanning light E2 deflected and scanned on...

20060103717 - Ros shutter system: Raster Output Scanner (ROS) shutter system capable of blocking and unblocking harmful radiation selectably, semi-automatically or automatically. The system and uses thereof can be applied to various fields including scanners and printers....

20060103718 - Variable interlace system and method of use: A variable interlacing system for use in xerographic imaging. Variable interlacing provides automatic reconfiguration of imaging parameters in an electrostatic printing machine. Print speed, format and resolution of the printed material may be traded-off against each other dynamically and on demand without changing any of the hardware, including the Raster...

20060103719 - Pulse light pattern writer: Apparatus for transmitting information at a data rate, such as for recording an image on a photosensitive surface, including a pulsed light source that produces pulsed light having a pulsed repetition rate and a modulator that asynchronously modulates the pulsed light at the date rate, wherein the data rate is...

20060103720 - Scanning apparatus using light source performing on/off operation: The present invention relates, in general, to a scanning apparatus using a diffractive light modulator and, more particularly, to a scanning apparatus, which turns on or off a laser diode, used as a light source, in synchronization with the operating frequency of a diffractive light modulator used in a laser...

20060098034 - Print engine for double-sided printing: A print engine for double-sided printing includes a chassis. A pair of substantially identical inkjet printhead assemblies is mounted on the chassis opposite each other. A pair of transfer rollers is mounted on the chassis and positioned with respect to the printhead assemblies to permit an inkjet printing operation to...

20060098035 - Inkjet printing method: This invention pertains to an inkjet printing method, more particularly to a method of printing wherein a print interruption occurs in the middle of a job. The inventive method avoids image banding defects that could otherwise occur as a result of print interruption....

20060098036 - Charge leakage prevention for inkjet printing: Charge leakage prevention and voltage drift prevention on a droplet ejection device for an inkjet printer. In one method to prevent charge leakage on a droplet ejection device with a switch and a piezoelectric actuator, the method includes controlling the switch to drive the piezoelectric actuator with the waveform input...

20060098038 - Method and apparatus for compensating for energy difference of thermal print head: Provided are a method and apparatus for compensating for an energy difference in a thermal print head that prints an image by heating a medium. The method includes measuring a direct current voltage of an adapter that applies a voltage to a heating unit when power is supplied to an...

20060098037 - Method and apparatus for reducing intercolor bleed to improve print quality: A method and apparatus for reducing intercolor bleed to improve print quality is provided. This technique includes the detection of an edge between a black portion color portion of an image to be printed, the edge being disposed in a region of color pixels and black pixels to be printed...

20060098039 - Method of selecting inks for use in imaging with an imaging apparatus: A method of selecting inks for use in imaging with an imaging apparatus includes determining a maximum usage of a diluted ink for use in conjunction with a saturated ink based on visual perception characteristics relating to a combination of the diluted ink and the saturated ink; generating an initial...

20060098040 - Inkjet image forming apparatus comprising a nozzle cleaning unit and method of using the same: Provided is an inkjet image forming apparatus and method. The inkjet image forming apparatus comprises an inkjet head comprising a nozzle unit with a plurality of nozzles through which ink is ejected, at least one wiper cleaning the nozzle unit, a mount part on which the wiper is installed, and...

20060098041 - Inkjet image forming apparatus having a nozzle unit and method of using the same: Provided is an inkjet image forming apparatus having a nozzle unit cleaning and capping means and a method of cleaning and capping the nozzle unit. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head including a nozzle unit with a length corresponding to a width of a sheet of paper,...

20060098043 - Inkjet printer and recording heads unit: An inkjet printer capable of inhibiting color tone change on a recording-finished image with an easy structure. The inkjet printer has: a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink having different colors from each other, wherein an image is recorded by moving the plurality of the recording heads over a...

20060098042 - Method of manufacturing left-handed and right-handed printhead modules: A method of manufacturing a plurality of printhead modules, at least some of which are capable of being combined in pairs to form bilithic pagewidth printheads, the method comprising the step of laying out each of the plurality of printhead modules on a wafer substrate, wherein at least one of...

20060098045 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: An image forming apparatus, for forming an image with plural types of dots having different densities per unit area in a same hue, including: a section to compare between a pixel value of a target pixel and a value of a prescribed threshold value matrix, and to determine, based on...

20060098044 - Printhead module having a dropped row: A printhead module including at least one row of printhead nozzles, at least one row including at least one displaced row portion, the displacement of the row portion including a component in a direction normal to that of a pagewidth to be printed....

20060098046 - Inkjet printer head: A recording head for use in an inkjet recording device, the recording head including a cavity unit having a plurality of nozzles each of which ejects a droplet of an ink, a plurality of communication holes which communicate with the plurality of nozzles, respectively, and a common ink chamber which...

20060098047 - Pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly with longitudinally extending sets of nozzles: A pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels. A drive and control circuitry layer is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is arranged on the substrate to define a number of longitudinally extending sets of nozzle chamber...

20060098049 - Ink-jet recording head and ink-jet recording device: The present invention provides an ink-jet recording head. The ink-jet recording head includes a nozzle that ejects an ink droplet; an ink flow path member that includes the nozzle; a beam member connected to the ink flow path member or which includes the ink flow path member; a first drive...

20060098048 - Ultra-low energy micro-fluid ejection device: A micro-fluid ejection device for ultra-small droplet ejection and method of making a micro-fluid ejection device. The micro-fluid ejection device includes a semiconductor substrate containing a plurality of thermal ejection actuators disposed thereon. Each of the thermal ejection actuators includes a resistive layer and a protective layer for protecting a...

20060098050 - Ink jet recording head and producing method therefor: The invention provides an ink jet recording head of an excellent discharge ability and a producing method therefor, covering a lateral wall of an ink supply aperture with a minimum necessary ink-resistant protective film. The ink supply aperture is formed by etching an exposed portion of the substrate, coating the...

20060098051 - Liquid discharge head and method for manufacturing such head: The present invention provides a liquid discharge head and a method for manufacturing such a head, in which a discharging speed of a liquid droplet can be increased, a discharging amount of the liquid droplet can be stabilized and discharging efficiency of the liquid droplet can be enhanced. The liquid...

20060098053 - Ink jet head circuit board, method of manufacturing the same and ink jet head using the same: In an ink jet head circuit board including a heater for generating thermal energy used for ejecting ink in response to application of electricity, a drop in thermal energy efficiency is prevented while reducing an area of the heater to achieve higher-resolution and higher-image-quality printing, and damages on the heater...

20060098052 - Thermal head, method of manufacturing the same, and thermal printer: A thermal head in which battery effect-induced corrosion can be retarded while maintaining excellent anti-static capability in an upper conductive protective film, is provided. The thermal head includes a substrate, a heater element arranged on the surface of the substrate, an electrode layer connected to the heater element, and an...

20060098056 - Fluid injection devices integrated with sensors and fabrication methods thereof: Fluid injectors integrated with sensors and fabrication thereof. The fluid injector comprises a substrate, a fluid chamber in the substrate with a structural layer thereon, at least one fluid actuator positioned on the structural layer, a linear resistive sensor communicating with the fluid chamber, a passivation layer on the structural...

20060098054 - Inkjet recording head and inkjet recording device: The present invention provides an inkjet recording head and inkjet recording device which can eject a high viscosity ink at ordinary temperature. The inkjet recording head has a nozzle portion ejecting an ink drop; an ink flow path member including the nozzle portion; and a driving section moving the ink...

20060098055 - Liquid discharge recording head and method for manufacturing same: The present invention permits to manufacture, with low cost and good through-put, a liquid discharge recording head in which a nozzle plate is formed from inorganic material. In the liquid discharge recording head according to the present invention, a nozzle plate formed from inorganic material is stacked on a front...

20060098057 - Method of producing inkjet printhead: There is disclosed a method of producing an inkjet printhead including a cavity unit having therein ink passages and formed by stacking a plurality of kinds of flat plates each of which has a specific ink-passage pattern for constituting the ink passages. The method comprises: preparing a large-sized material sheet...

20060098058 - Liquid jet head and liquid jet apparatus: Provided are a liquid jet head capable of preventing occurrence of crosstalk and obtaining a stable liquid ejecting property and a liquid jet apparatus. Partitions 11 at both sides in a width direction of a pressure generating chamber 12 are provided so as to extend to the vicinity of an...

20060098059 - Semiconductor device having actuator: A semiconductor device having a surface MEMS element, includes a semiconductor substrate, and an actuator which is arranged above the semiconductor substrate via a space and has a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and a piezoelectric layer sandwiched between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, at least an entire...

20060098060 - Device and method of operation: The invention relates to a solenoid valve made using certain materials which is capable of operation at high frequencies and which can be made as a compact unit. The invention also relates to method for operating a drop on demand ink jet printer incorporating such a valve....

20060098061 - Ink cartridge and inkjet recording apparatus equipped with the ink cartridge: An ink cartridge is disclosed. The ink cartridge comprises an ink refill bag, and an ink refill bag housing in which the ink refill bag is accommodated. The ink refill bag includes a cap having an ink passage through which ink is supplied to an inkjet recording apparatus that ejects...

20060098062 - Ink-jet recording device and ink supply unit suitable for it: Ink maintained at a negative pressure state is supplied to an ink-jet recording head via an ink supply mechanism constructed as a differential pressure valve having a coil spring and a movable membrane normally contacted elastically with a valve seat by the coil spring....

20060098063 - Ink-jet printing apparatus with configuration of spring and flexible pocket: An ink jet-printing apparatus includes an ink reservoir, a print head, a flexible pocket, and a resilient element. The print head is used for ejecting ink from the reservoir. The reservoir is substantially sealed so that ejection of ink from the reservoir decreases a pressure in the reservoir volume. The...

20060098068 - Aqueous ink, aqueous ink set, ink cartridge, ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method, and image-forming method: An aqueous ink comprises water, a water-insoluble coloring material, and plurality of water-soluble organic solvents and the plurality of water-soluble organic solvents including a good medium or good mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material and a poor medium or poor mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material. The ratio of the...

20060098067 - Aqueous ink, ink set, and image-forming method: The present invention aims to provide an ink which has a sufficiently large area factor even in a small ink droplet quantity and can obtain images having a high image density, and further has a superior storage stability. According to the present invention, a cyan ink is provided which is...

20060098065 - Copper oxide ultrafine particle: There are provided a soft agglomerate of copper oxide ultrafine particles which has an average primary particle diameter of not more than 100 nm and an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 0.2 μm and a method for producing the soft agglomerate....

20060098066 - Inkjet ink, ink set and method of printing: This invention pertains to an inkjet ink comprising a polycarbodiimide groups-containing component, various ink sets comprising this ink, including one ink set with at least one co-reactive ink, and a method of printing with the ink and ink sets. When the inks are printed onto a substrate, the polycarbodiimide groups...

20060098064 - Printing ink for ink-jet printing: This invention relates to inks for use in ink-jet printers that are cured using ultraviolet radiation. Specifically, the present invention relates to an ink-jet ink which is substantially free of water, volatile organic solvents and multifunctional (meth)acrylates comprising at least one monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, at least one α,β-unsaturated ether monomer,...

20060098071 - Cutting apparatus, cutting method, and printer: The cutting apparatus includes a conveyor for conveying a recording medium on which at least one image is recorded, a cutting section having two cutter, each cutter for cutting the recording medium in a conveying direction into a predetermined size in a width direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, the...

20060098070 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus, carrying out an image forming by ejecting ink from a recording head onto a recording paper transported by a recording paper transport unit, is characterized by transporting the recording paper while biasing the recording paper toward the recording paper transport by way of a recording paper bias...

20060098069 - Thermal printing of silver ink: Aqueous inkjet inks having metal nanoparticles for printing of conductive patterns or for other reasons can be printed employing heat energy within the range of current printers. For optimum printing the energy delivered would be about 2.9×109 Joules/m3 or larger of volume of the heater stack, preferably not much larger...

20060098072 - Medium supplying apparatus, method for driving medium supplying apparatus, computer readable medium including drive-control program and recording device: A method for driving a medium supplying apparatus which supplies medium by a pick-up roller, wherein an operation of stopping rotation of the pick-up roller is inserted at least one of before an operation of supplying medium to a separating position where, when a plurality of sheets of medium are...

20060098074 - Paper conveyance apparatus and image recording apparatus: A paper conveyance apparatus includes an endless type conveyance belt, a driving unit, first and second rollers, a first biasing mechanism and an encoder. The endless type conveyance belt has first and second surfaces. The driving unit drives the conveyance belt. The first roller is in contact with the first...

20060098073 - Recording apparatus and control method thereof: When the trailing edge of a recording sheet is released from a nip of a first pair of rollers which hold and convey the recording sheet, on the upstream side in the conveyance path, a variance of electric power for driving the first pair of rollers is detected, and image...

20060098075 - Image forming device: An image forming device, comprising: a cylindrical rotatable photoreceptor rotatably supported by an apparatus body; an exposure device in which plural exposure heads which expose an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable photoreceptor are disposed in a common housing in such a manner that exposure sections thereof are consecutively positioned;...

20060098076 - Desktop personal digital cosmetics make up printer: This invention discloses a system for providing a desktop digital personal make up Cosmetics system which can raise the speed of cosmetics many time faster and much detail than traditional way. A desktop digital lnkjet eye brow and face make up printer comprising with flexible adjustable track rail, Profile set...

20060098077 - Methods and apparatus for providing luminance compensation: Methods and apparatus for generating two or more different colors or color temperatures of light over a significant range of different saturations or different color temperatures, in which luminance compensation is provided. In one example, generated light is compensated, at least in part, for the “Helmholtz-Kohlrausch” (HK) effect, which models...

20060098078 - Apparatus and method for forming image by detecting thermal print head type: Provided are an apparatus and method for forming an image by determining a thermal print head type and generating driving signals for driving the thermal print head according to the thermal print head type. The apparatus includes a data input unit which receives data regarding an image to be printed,...

20060098079 - Heat developing method and heat developing apparatus: The present invention provides a heat developing method and a heat developing apparatus for stabilizing density and making image quality stable when executing a heat developing process by a rapid process of 10 seconds or less. The heat developing method is a method for heating a film with a heat...

20060098080 - Thermal pint head: A thermal print head includes an insulating board (2), a glaze layer (21) formed on the board (2), a wiring pattern (22) formed on the glaze layer (21), and an electrode (6) connected to the wiring pattern (22). The electrode (6) includes a pad (61) provided on the wiring pattern...

20060098081 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer having an improved arrangement of memory card sockets on a main board and capable of printing an image on a print medium by applying heat to both surfaces of the print medium is provided. The thermal printer includes: a rotating unit rotatably installed within a frame and...

20060098082 - Thermal paper, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same: A method is provided for manufacturing a thermal paper from a thermal recording medium having a thermal color developing layer on a recording surface thereof. The method includes developing at least one color on one portion of the thermal color developing layer, and cutting off a portion of the thermal...

20060098083 - Printer capable of detecting status of unutilized ribbon: A printer includes a ribbon supply end, a ribbon retrieving end, and a ribbon. The two ends of the ribbon are installed on the ribbon supply end and the ribbon retrieving end respectively. The printer further includes a print head, a print medium fixture, a driving module for driving the...

20060098084 - Marking replaceable resource units within printing devices: A marking beam of electromagnetic energy is generated within a printing device and a visibly markable portion of a replaceable subsystem that is at least partially arranged within the printing device is altered by illuminating at least part of the markable portion with the marking beam....

20060092191 - Thin film pattern substrate, method for manufacturing device, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus: A thin film pattern substrate on which a thin film pattern is formed by placing a functional liquid on the substrate, the thin film pattern includes a first domain area into which the functional liquid is infused and a second domain area on which the functional liquid infused into the...

20060092192 - Fume hood for printing equipment: A fume hood apparatus in combination with a printer comprises a printer outputting printout sheets, a suction source and a support structure. A hood is supported by the support structure. The hood has a hollow cavity, and an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the hollow cavity. The...

20060092193 - Hybrid printer: A printing device comprising a casing having a first part housing a first printing mechanism which comprises a printhead and a platen located at a print zone, and a holder for holding a roll of precut label stock in a position to pass through the print zone, and a second...

20060092194 - Image input/output apparatus: An image input/output apparatus having a scanner unit disposed at an upper stage of an apparatus body and a liquid jet recording unit installed at a lower stage of the apparatus body includes a window which light passes through between the scanner unit and the liquid jet recording unit; an...

20060092196 - Ink jet printer, method of controlling an ink jet printer, and computer program product for an ink jet printer: A printer is provided with an ink jet head and a controller. The ink jet head prints on a print medium by discharging ink. The ink jet head comprises a plurality of units. Each unit comprises a nozzle for discharging ink, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, and a...

20060092197 - Print engine controller for an inkjet printhead assembly having infrared tag control: A print engine controller for an inkjet printhead assembly includes a data bus. A data interface and a memory interface are connected to the data bus for loading compressed page data into the data bus. Contone expansion circuitry is connected to the data bus to expand a contone layer of...

20060092195 - Printing support system, printer and printing support program, and printing support method: A printing support system that supports using a recording agent to print includes: a recording agent information memory unit that memorizes recording agent information of the characteristics of a plurality of the recording agents; a characteristics input unit that inputs the characteristics of the recording agent; an adaptation judgment unit...

20060092200 - Inkjet image output system: An inkjet image output system including a control unit and a number of inkjet printing units is disclosed. The control unit is for receiving a first image datum, then outputting a print datum accordingly. The inkjet printing units print an image corresponding to the print datum under the control of...

20060092198 - Method of hiding inkjet printhead die boundaries: Methods are disclosed for reducing visible print defects in printers having multi-die printheads oriented substantially perpendicular to the print media path. The exemplary methods include performing multiple print passes while alternately disabling the end nozzles on adjacent printhead die....

20060092199 - Methods and apparatus for aligning print heads: In a first aspect, a system is provided. The system includes (1) a stage adapted to move a substrate relative to print heads during printing; (2) at least one print head suspended from a support above the stage and adapted to be moveable in a plane above the stage; (3)...

20060092201 - Individual voltage trimming with waveforms: Apparatus including a plurality of droplet ejection devices, an electric source and a controller. Each droplet ejection device includes switches connected in parallel to a piezoelectric actuator. Each switch includes an input terminal to connect to an input waveform signal, an output terminal to connect to the piezoelectric actuator, a...

20060092202 - Liquid ejection apparatus, liquid ejection method, and printing system: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a head having a plurality of nozzles each for ejecting a liquid droplet, and a plurality of elements each provided in correspondence with a respective one of the nozzles; a drive signal generation section that generates a first drive signal including a plurality of waveform...

20060092204 - Apparatus and methods for an inkjet head support having an inkjet head capable of independent lateral movement: In a first aspect, a first apparatus is provided for inkjet printing. The first apparatus includes an inkjet head support that includes a plurality of inkjet heads. A first inkjet head of the plurality of inkjet heads is adapted to be independently moveable in both directions along a lateral axis...

20060092203 - Ink jet printhead having aligned nozzles for complementary printing in a single pass: An ink jet printer has a roofshooter type printhead with first and second aligned nozzle arrays that ejects ink droplets onto a recording medium in a complete image swath during a single pass. The ink droplets from the first array of nozzles print selected pixels of an image in each...

20060092205 - Printhead module for expelling ink from nozzles in groups, starting at outside nozzles of each group: A printhead module including at least one row that comprises a plurality of adjacent sets of n adjacent nozzles, each of the nozzles being configured to expel the ink in response to a fire signal, the printhead being configured to output ink from nozzles at a first and nth position...

20060092206 - Image processing method, recorder, ink jet recorder, printer driver, image processor, imaging system and imaging method: In an ink-jet printing device which has an ink-jet recording head in which a plurality of nozzles are formed, and forms an image based on multi-level image data, a gamma correction parameter is selected according to discharging characteristics of the recording head to an input gradation level or according to...

20060092208 - Ink jet printer: In an ink jet printer using an ink cartridge having an ink tank for storing ink therein and a recording head for ejecting the ink stored in the ink tank as ink drops and forming an image on a recording paper sheet, the detection accuracy of a displacement detection sensor...

20060092207 - Methods and apparatus for precision control of print head assemblies: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for controlling the quantity of fluid output (e.g., drop size) by individual nozzles of a print head to a very high precision at a frequency equal to the frequency at which fluid is normally dispensed. This is achieved by mapping fluid quantity control...

20060092209 - Illumination utilizing a plurality of light sources: Illumination utilizing a plurality of light sources is disclosed. In one embodiment, an illumination level is set to result in a desired contrast level. Calculations are made to derive electrical current values for each of the plurality of light sources which will illuminate a plurality of selected locations at the...

20060092210 - Color sensor counterfeit ink detection: A counterfeit ink detector comprises a color printer calibrated by determining authentic ink color values for several authentic inks used by the color printer. A multi-color pattern is printed using multi-colored inks of a print cartridge. A light source outputs light to the color pattern and a color sensor detects...

20060092211 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer having: recording head 1 including a plurality of nozzles; defective nozzle detection means 8 for detecting a defective nozzle from which ink droplets are not ejected for each of the of aforesaid recording head 1; a determination means for determining a level of a defective nozzle occurrence...

20060092212 - Ink jet recording apparatus: The ink jet recording apparatus includes an ejection head for ejecting ink droplets toward a recording medium by exerting electrostatic force onto ink containing charged colorant particles, an ink tank for reserving the ink to be supplied to the ejection head, a circulation path for circulating the ink between the...

20060092213 - Apparatus and method for maintaining recording head: An apparatus for maintaining a recording head which has a nozzle opening in a nozzle-defining surface thereof, and ejects, from the nozzle, a droplet of an ink toward a recording medium, in a state in which the recording head is separate from a remaining portion of a recording device, the...

20060092214 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus is structured to perform discharges in the capping status when preliminary discharges are performed in a shot number larger than a predetermined number, and perform discharges in a cap or a preparatory port other than the cap when the preliminary discharges are performed in a...

20060092215 - Aerosol extraction during printing by and servicing of fluid ejection-device: An aerosol extraction system for a fluid-ejection device is disclosed that includes a print zone, a servicing zone, a vacuum, and a switching mechanism. The print zone is that in which a print head of the fluid-ejection device ejects fluid onto media to form images thereon. The servicing zone is...

20060092216 - Wiper for cleaning jetting head and liquid jetting apparatus equipped therewith: An ink jet printer wherein the controller warns the user of the time of replacement for the cleaning wiper by informing the user of an existing surface roughness or an amount of abrasion of the blade used in the cleaning wiper, based on the number of times of the maintenance...

20060092217 - Fluid aerosol extraction for service station of fluid ejection-device: A fluid ejection device includes a fluid-ejection mechanism, a scanning carriage, and a service station. The fluid-ejection mechanism is capable of ejecting fluid onto media. The scanning carriage is that on which the fluid-ejection mechanism moves while ejecting fluid onto the media. The service station is that to which the...

20060092219 - Methods and apparatus for aligning inkjet print head supports: In some embodiments of the invention, a method for inkjet printing is provided. The method includes providing sets of print heads, each set being disposed along a different axis. The method also includes adjusting each axis relative to different display objects on a substrate. Numerous other aspects are provided....

20060092218 - Methods and apparatus for inkjet printing: In a first aspect, a system is provided for inkjet printing. The system includes (1) at least one apparatus for inkjet printing having (a) a first inkjet print head including a first plurality of nozzles adapted to selectively dispense a first ink; (b) a second inkjet print head including a...

20060092220 - Pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly with data and power supply mounted on ink distribution assembly: A pagewidth printhead assembly includes an elongate ink distribution manifold that defines a longitudinally and centrally oriented printhead integrated circuit recess and longitudinal rows of transverse slots that converge towards and open into, the recess. An elongate printhead integrated circuit incorporating a plurality of micro-electromechanical ink ejecting mechanisms is positioned...

20060092221 - Printing method and apparatus for an ink-jet printer having a wide printhead: A printing method and apparatus therefor are provided for an ink-jet printer having a wide printhead. Printing data is received. First printing dots are formed on a printing medium by a horizontal pitch using nozzles arranged in a first row according to colors. Second printing dots are formed at a...

20060092223 - Method for black pixel designation in document image data: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method of processing document image data for printing. The method comprises rasterizing all objects in the document image data into a bitmap format including designating black portions of the objects as composite black pixels. Color objects are identified in the document...

20060092222 - Printhead module for expelling ink from nozzles in groups, alternately, starting at outside nozzles of each group: 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, such that, for each set of nozzles, a fire signal is provided in accordance with the sequence:...

20060092225 - Apparatus and method of assembling head unit, of positioning liquid droplet ejection head, and of fixing liquid droplet ejection head; as well as method of manufacturing lcd device, organic el device, electron emission device, pdp device, electrophoretic: A liquid droplet ejection head has a liquid introduction part, a pump part which is in communication with the liquid introduction part, and a nozzle forming plate in which a nozzle port is formed in an overlapped manner with the pump part. The nozzle forming plate is formed substantially into...

20060092224 - Nozzle plate, inkjet printhead with the same and method of manufacturing the same: A nozzle plate, inkjet printhead with the same and method of manufacturing the same. The nozzle plate includes at least one nozzle and has at least one heater segment disposed adjacent to the nozzle. The heater segment is configured to heat a first fraction of the circumference to a greater...

20060092229 - Fluid ejection device having an elongate micro-electromechanical actuator: A micro-electromechanical fluid ejection device includes a substrate that defines a fluid inlet channel and incorporates a wafer and CMOS layers positioned on the wafer. A nozzle chamber sidewall and roof are positioned on the substrate to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the fluid inlet channel and...

20060092228 - Micro-electromechanical liquid ejection device with a thermal actuator that undergoes rectilinear motion: A micro-electromechanical liquid ejecting device includes a substrate that defines a liquid inlet channel. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the substrate. A nozzle chamber structure is positioned on the substrate. The nozzle chamber structure has sidewalls and a roof that define a nozzle chamber in liquid communication with...

20060092226 - Motion transmitting structure for a nozzle arrangement of a printhead chip for an inkjet printhead: A printhead chip for an inkjet printhead includes a plurality of nozzle arrangements (100) positioned on a substrate (32). Each nozzle arrangement includes a chamber structure defining a nozzle chamber (106) that receives ink. An ink ejecting member (140) positioned in the nozzle chamber is displaceable in the nozzle chamber...

20060092227 - Printhead integrated circuit with planar actuators: A printhead integrated circuit for an inkjet printhead that includes a wafer substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels. Drive circuitry is positioned on the wafer substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is positioned on the wafer substrate. Each nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber in...

20060092230 - Non-conductive fluid droplet forming apparatus and method: A method and apparatus for forming fluid droplets includes a nozzle channel, a pressurized source of a non-conductive fluid in fluid communication with the nozzle channel, and a stimulation electrode. The pressurized source is operable to form a jet of the non-conductive fluid through the nozzle channel. At least one...

20060092231 - Fluid injection device and method of fabricating the same: A fluid injection device. The device includes a substrate, a chamber formed in the substrate, and a structural layer covering the substrate and the chamber, wherein the structural layer covering the chamber has two regions with different thicknesses, and at least two nozzles pass through the two structural layer regions...

20060092232 - Inkjet printhead with low volume ink displacement: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles and one or more heater elements 10 corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element 10 is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid 11 in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a...

20060092233 - Method for providing low volume drop displacement in an inkjet printhead: A bubble forming liquid is placed into thermal contact with a heater element of a nozzle of an inkjet printhead. The heater element is heated to a temperature above the boiling point of the bubble forming liquid to form a gas bubble such that a drop of an ejectable liquid...

20060092235 - Electronic part-mounted substrate, thermal conductive member for electronic part-mounted substrate and liquid-jetting head: An electronic part-mounted substrate includes a plate made of metal, an insulating material layer which is formed of a ceramic material on a surface of the plate and which has a surface provided with a heat generating IC thereon, and a thermal conductive member which is provided on a surface...

20060092234 - Reservoir systems for administering multiple populations of particles: Various particle reservoir systems are described which utilize one or more traveling wave grids within a reservoir to selectively transport particles to a reservoir exit. The reservoir systems are uniquely adapted for use with a variety of print head configurations....

20060092237 - Inkjet printhead having a cantilever actuator: An inkjet printhead having a cantilever actuator, the inkjet printhead including a plurality of ink chambers containing ink to be ejected; a manifold containing ink to be supplied to the plurality of ink chambers; a plurality of restrictors supplying ink to the plurality of ink chambers from the manifold; a...

20060092236 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead having a unidirectional shutter: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead including a reversible shutter disposed in an ink flow path is disclosed. The inkjet printhead may includes a plurality of ink pressure chambers, a plurality of piezoelectric actuators to provide the plurality of ink pressure chambers with a driving force for ink ejection, an ink manifold...

20060092238 - Inkjet printhead: An inlet printhead includes a cavity unit that includes: a plurality of nozzles arranged in at least one row in a first surface of the cavity unit; at least one common ink chamber extending along the row of the nozzles so as to distribute therefrom ink to the nozzles; and...

20060092239 - Nozzle plate, printhead having the same and methods of operating and manufacturing the same: A nozzle plate and printhead allowing for control of a deflection direction of ejected droplets using electro-wetting, and methods of operating and manufacturing the same. The nozzle plate has at least one nozzle for ejecting fluid and includes electrode segments disposed along a circumference of the nozzle, an insulating layer...

20060092241 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus whereby recording liquid is jetted onto a recording medium so that an image is formed, the image forming apparatus includes an operations part configured to operate the apparatus in a predetermined special mode different from a normal mode in a case where a machine number stored...

20060092240 - Leak detection structure: One embodiment of a leak detection structure includes a sensor having a leak detection surface and a wicking structure positioned adjacent the leak detection surface, the wicking structure adapted for wicking a fluid onto the leak detection surface....

20060092243 - Ink delivery system and a method for replacing ink: An ink delivery system having a fluid supply and a printhead assembly, separate from and in fluid communication with the fluid supply. A primary flow path is configured to facilitate the delivery of fluid from the fluid supply to the printhead assembly, and a return flow path, at least partially...

20060092242 - Vent seal: One embodiment of a vent seal includes a vent that defines a vent channel and a seal positioned within the channel in both a closed vent condition and in an open vent condition....

20060092244 - Uv curable ink package: An object is to provide an ink package accompanied with an ink bag, that exhibity satisfactory light shielding and ink resistance properties maintaining for a long period of time at low cost against external factors such as vibration and bending, employed via a UV curable ink jet recording method. Disclosed...

20060092245 - Multiple chamber ink cartridge: In one embodiment, an ink cartridge for inkjet printing includes a housing enclosing four separate chambers for holding ink and a printhead affixed to the housing and operatively connected to each of the four ink chambers....

20060092247 - Ink-jet head, filter assembly used for manufacturing the ink-jet head, and method for manufacturing the ink-jet head using the filter assembly: An ink-jet head comprises a passage unit with an ink passage formed therein and a branching passage unit, and is constructed by laminating the passage unit and the branching passage unit with each other. The ink passage extends from a common ink chamber for supplying ink to a pressure chamber...

20060092246 - Method for manufacturing a filter substrate, inkjet recording head, and method for manufacturing the inkjet recording head: A filter capable of separating or filtering micro foreign particles in a flow passage is provided. A first mask and a second mask are formed on a silicon substrate by dry etching. Before performing the dry etching, a resist of the first mask is subjected to a heat treatment performed...

20060092250 - Amphoteric pigment dispersion containing ink formulations, methods of using ink formulations, and systems using ink formulations: Ink-jet ink sets, pigment-based ink formulations, methods of printing, and methods of enhancing print quality, are disclosed. One exemplary ink-jet ink set, among others, includes a pigment-based ink formulation at a first pH, including: a pigment, and an amphoteric dispersant having an isoelectric point; and a second ink formulation at...

20060092248 - Ink-jet recording ink and method of ink-jet recording: An inkjet recording ink comprising an aqueous medium having dissolved and/or dispersed therein a phthalocyanine dye, wherein the phthalocyanine dye is a water-soluble dye having an oxidation potential more positive than 1.0 V (vs SCE) and the ink comprises a water-miscible organic solvent having a vapor pressure of 2,000 Pa...

20060092251 - Inkjet compositions: In accordance with the present invention an inkjet composition is provided. The inkjet composition includes an anionic dye, at least one pigment, and an acidic fluid fixer, wherein the acidic fluid fixer includes at least one cationic component. Also provided are methods of printing images using an inkjet printer. Also...

20060092249 - Printing ink applying to various textile materials, the process for preparing it and the printing method using it: The present invention relates to an inkjet printing ink which has good color developing property and fastness and a broad color gamut in printing various textile materials such as polyesters, cottons, silks, nylons, etc., knitted materials, particularly mixed fibers so that the product value of printed fiber products including garments...

20060092252 - Restoration of black to color bleed performance of amphoteric pigment dispersion based inks of low pigment loads: In one aspect of the present system and method, a pigment-based ink includes an acidic pigment-based ink formulation, and a pigment load less than 5 weight percent, where an amphoteric dispersant maintains the pigment distributed in the acidic pigment-based ink formulation, wherein the amphoteric dispersant has an isoelectric point, and...

20060092253 - Offset printing blank and method of imaging by ink jet: A method of preparing offset lithographic plates using specially formulated aqueous ink jet inks is described. The inks may either be pigment based and provide oleophilic images on specially formulated hydrophilic plate surfaces, or may contain chemical switches which provide the image on the plate by causing its surface to...

20060092254 - Printing of radiation curable inks into a radiation curable liquid layer: A printing process is disclosed for ink-jet printing a radiation curable image on a substrate (14). First a radiation curable liquid layer (12) is provided on at least a portion of the substrate (14). Radiation curable ink-jet ink droplets (10) are jetted into the radiation curable liquid layer (12) and...

20060092255 - Image recording apparatus and sheet material transporting apparatus: A U-shaped transport path has a pair of transport rollers and a pair of rotating rollers which convey the sheet material at the maximum curvature along the U-shaped transport path so that an image recording apparatus can be miniaturized....

20060092256 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes an image carrier, a charging unit, an exposing device, a developing device, a control device and a pair of position adjusting devices. Each of the position adjusting devices is respectively provided at a leading edge and a trailing edge of an output field of the...

20060092257 - Method for calibrating color in a printing device: A method for improving color-to-color registration in a printing device. The method includes printing a plurality of multi-color images, measuring the relative locations of a first portion of each multi-color image having a first color of each image and a second portion of each multi-color image having a second color...

20060092258 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a recording material transporting path that extends in a direction from bottom to top of a body of the image forming apparatus and transports a recording material, a fixing device provided on the recording material transporting path, which includes a rotatable heating member that has...

20060092259 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a recording material transporting path that extends in a direction from below upward and that transports a recording material, a fixing device provided on the way of the recording material transporting path, the fixing device having a rotatable heating member that has a heating source...

20060092260 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer includes an improved cable for connecting a main board and a recording head and that forms an image on a print medium by heating both surfaces of the print medium. The thermal printer includes a rotating unit rotatably installed within a frame and having a recording head...

20060092261 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer is provided including a cable which connects a main board and a recording head to form an image on a print medium by heating both surfaces of the print medium. The thermal printer includes a rotating unit rotatably installed within a frame. The thermal printer also includes...

20060092263 - Image forming apparatus: A photosensitive member is movable in a first direction. A line head is provided with a plurality of organic-EL photo emitters, arrayed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to form a plurality of photo emitter arrays arranged in the first direction. A plurality of imaging lenses are...

20060092262 - Labeling methods and apparatus using electromagnetic radiation: A method and means are provided for visually marking a recording medium by inducing a phase change in a light-sensitive surface by heat absorption from laser radiation. The method comprises applying the laser radiation to a desired portion of the light-sensitive surface according to a first power profile for a...

20060092264 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus having a plurality of light sources and printing an image carrier by collectively scanning an image carrier with beams from the plurality of light sources includes a screen processing unit for performing a screen process on input image data and a registration correction processing unit for...

20060092265 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling top margin of printing medium in image forming apparatus: An method of controlling a feeding velocity of a printing medium in an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus to perform the method, the method including sensing a time between two points on a feeding path on which the printing medium is moving, and regulating the feeding velocity...