Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a controller to align printheads in a printer.SOLUTION: The method includes identifying a first cross-process position for each printhead in a plurality of printheads in a printer with reference to image data of a test pattern printed by the plurality of printheads on a media substrate, identifying a second cross-process position for each printhead in the plurality of printheads, calculating a printhead cross-process position error between the identified first cross-process position and the identified second cross-process position for each printhead, comparing a maximum printhead cross-process position error to a predetermined threshold, and operating a plurality of actuators with reference to the calculated printhead cross-process position errors to reposition the printheads in the plurality of printheads in response to the maximum printhead cross-process position error being equal to or less than the predetermined threshold.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print head discharge operation system in a web printing system capable of preventing misregistration by improving the calculation accuracy of a web velocity. SOLUTION: The discharge operation system of the print head in the web printing system includes: a first roller; a first encoder for generating a signal corresponding to an angular velocity of the first roller; a first temperature sensor for generating a signal corresponding to a first roller temperature; a first print head; and a controller. In the discharge operation system, the controller is configured so as to recognize a change in the length of a first roller diameter to calculate the web velocity of a web moving through a printing zone based on the change in length and also generate a discharge signal for discharging ink on the web in a position corresponding to the calculated web velocity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce or eliminate the possibility of duplicating originals of secret or guaranteed documents by a copy, an electrically processing method, etc., using a photograph or an electronic device. SOLUTION: In this method a facility is provided which has an electronic printer equipped with at least a kind of access controlling mechanism, and original documents are printed by the access-controlled electronic printer so that an image printed by it is produced at least from marking materials containing at least a kind of a photoactive additive, and a reproducing device of all the access non-controls is installed in the facility provided with an illuminating light source for secrecy with which an intended secret or guaranteed documents are irradiated with an intensity enough to activate the photoactive additive. Moreover, the facility has such a configuration that the intended secret or the guaranteed documents are irradiated with the illuminating light source of the access non-control reproducing device, and a printed image of the original document can not be copied or scanned at ordinary copying or scanning illumination intervals.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize a total charge imparted to a toner layer and to reduce a mutual pollorion by making a lamp irradiate a photoreceptor and removing the charge of the photoreceptor before the next AC re-electrification of the photoreceptor, which is performed to expose a next color image, after developing the 1st toner layer. SOLUTION: Re-electrification is performed well when a photoreceptor is exposed first so that the charge of an image area is made to lower before the re-electrification. Then, a pre-electrification erasing lamp 18 is used to expose the image area. When the image area advances passing through the lamp 18, the lamp 18 irradiates the image area. The developed image area is discharged by the lamp 18 and the potential of the photoreceiving body is lowered to the potential obtained by adding all voltages to a residual voltage being about -25 V by a charge on a developed toner. After passing through the lamp 18, an AC scorotron 22 re-electrifies the image area to a charge level which is desirable to expose and develop a yellow image.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which copes with errors of the velocity and the position of a linear web. SOLUTION: A double reflective printing alignment system includes a first converter which is constituted to create a first linear velocity regarding the moving web in a first roller, a second converter which is constituted to create a second linear velocity regarding the moving web in a second roller, a low pass filter which specifies the low frequency of the first linear velocity in combination with the first converter, a high pass filter which specifies the high frequency of the second linear velocity in combination with the second converter, and a controller which is constituted to calculate the linear velocity of the moving web in the second roller by referring to the specified high frequency component of the second linear velocity and the specified low frequency component of the first linear velocity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heating assembly for printed-article prior to transferring capable of realizing an effective image-transfer with a solid-ink image forming device or printer. SOLUTION: The heating assembly for printed-article prior to multi-stage transfer for a high-speed phase-change ink-image forming device 10 is equipped with (a) the first printed-article heating assembly 102 which is installed inside of the above device and located upstream of an image transfer receiving station while first heating each printed-article fed to the station and (b) the second printed-article heating assemblies 104, 105 which are located downstream of the first printed-article heating assembly based on the printed-article feeding direction while controllably re-heating the each printed-article, which has been heated by the first printed-article heating assembly, up to the desired image receiving temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and arrangement for ensuring the accuracy of the alignment of X-axis and Y-axis of a jet nozzle in a print process. SOLUTION: The first image pattern is made printed at least partially in the image area (step 202) by the first set constituted of one or more nozzles each of which is operable so that a single pixel may be printed at a time. A suitable control signal is transmitted, then the second image pattern is made printed at least partially in the image area (step 204) by the second set constituted of one or more nozzles each of which is operable so that a single pixel may be printed at a time. The first and second image patterns form a composite image in the image area. Optical characteristics is measured with an optical detector (step 206). The measured characteristics is compared with the desired characteristic value (step 208). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image transfer apparatus for reducing or deleting wire history. SOLUTION: The wire history is deleted by supplying a voltage burst to shift, relative to nominal, the D.C. component of the electrode 42 bias relative to the electrical bias of a donor member 30 during the movement of the inter- imaging regions 112a and 112b through the development zone. A voltage shift may also be applied to electrically bias the donor member 30 relative to the photoreceptor belt 10 during the movement of the inter-imaging regions 112a and 112b through the development zone. These voltage shifts may be conducted individually or simultaneously. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To address the effect of web changes and environmental conditions during operation of a web printing system on registration.SOLUTION: A method of operating a printer enables compensation parameters to be generated and stored in association with system conditions detected at the time of the compensation parameter generation. Upon detection of corresponding system conditions at a later time, the printer is able to use the previously generated and stored compensation parameters to adjust the timing of printhead ejections to improve the registration in ink images formed by the system.