Abstract:
An ink jet print head includes ink ejection outlets (5,6,7,8) for ejecting ink, passages communicating with the ejection outlets; a common chamber (9) for supplying the ink to the passages; ejection energy generating elements (3) for producing energy for ejecting the ink; an ink supply passage for supplying the ink to the common chamber; a buffering chamber (13) disposed at a position through which a pressure wave resulting from driving of the ejection energy generating elements (3) propagate, the buffering chamber containing a gas for attenuating the pressure wave, wherein a part of a wall constituting the buffering chamber (13) has a gas transmitting property.
Abstract:
The present application is intended to provide an ink jet printing apparatus and method which can use a plurality of kinds of heads or ink tanks exchangeably, wherein the recovery operation can be effected without waste and efficiently in accordance with a head or an ink tank, or a cartridge having the head and the ink tank integrally formed which is mounted. Even in the state where a power switch of apparatus is off, the time is measured using a back-up power source, and the elapsed time from the previous recovery operation can be managed individually for the head, the ink tank or the cartridge to be mounted, whereby the proper recovery operation without waste can be realized. Also, the present application is intended to provide an ink jet printing apparatus which can effect the proper remain detection and the indication of remain state in accordance with the head, the tank or the cartridge to be mounted.
Abstract:
A recording head having an ejection portion group for ejecting a black ink, and ejection portion groups for ejecting color inks is used. When a black image to be printed by the black ink is present adjacent to a color image to be printed by the color ink, a black image portion adjacent to the color image and a black image portion which is not adjacent to the color image are formed in different scans, thereby obtaining a high-quality image from which ink blurring at a boundary portion between the black and color images is eliminated.
Abstract:
A code printing method and apparatus which prints an image and a code on the same recording medium. The apparatus stores a plurality of density patterns corresponding to each density, and codes corresponding to the density patterns. When code data is inputted and printing of the code is instructed, the apparatus determines the density of each pixel of image data, selects the density pattern representing the code data among the density patterns corresponding to the pixel density, and prints the density pattern instead of the image pixel. Thus, the image and code are printed without deterioration of the image quality.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording device comprises a carriage (5) having a plural number of ink jet recording heads (1-4) each having a plural number of discharge ports (12-15) mounted thereon, a means for giving recording ink signals to the ink discharge energy generating elements corresponding to all or a part of the respective plural number of discharge ports of the plural number of discharge heads (1-4), and a control means, which increases the number of recording heads (1-4) to be used during recording of the recordable region formed by the total sum of all the discharge regions of the plural number of recording heads from initiation of recording onto a recording medium (8), reducing the number of recording heads to be used during recording of the recordable region in the recording completion region of the recording medium, and has one scanning width to be recorded by scanning by the recording head during recording as the feeding pitch of the recording medium.
Abstract:
An ink jet print head includes ink ejection outlets (5,6,7,8) for ejecting ink, passages communicating with the ejection outlets; a common chamber (9) for supplying the ink to the passages; ejection energy generating elements (3) for producing energy for ejecting the ink; an ink supply passage for supplying the ink to the common chamber; a buffering chamber (13) disposed at a position through which a pressure wave resulting from driving of the ejection energy generating elements (3) propagate, the buffering chamber containing a gas for attenuating the pressure wave, wherein a part of a wall constituting the buffering chamber (13) has a gas transmitting property.