公开(公告)号：JP2000108400A

公开(公告)日：2000-04-18

申请号：JP26933499

申请日：1999-09-22

Applicant: XEROX CORP

Inventor： PEETERS ERIC ,  NOOLANDI JAAN ,  APTE RAJ B ,  FLOYD PHILIP D ,  SMALL JONATHAN A ,  KOVACS GREGORY J ,  LEAN MENG H ,  VOLKEL ARMIN R ,  BOLTE STEVEN B ,  SHI AN-CHANG ,  ENDICOTT FREDERICK J ,  ANDERSON GREGORY B ,  HAYS DAN A ,  KUBBY JOEL A ,  JACKSON WARREN B ,  KAREN A MOFFAT ,  MCANENEY BRIAN T ,  VEREGIN RICHARD P N ,  MCDOUGALL MARIA N V ,  BOILS DANIELLE C ,  PAUL D SZABO ,  ANDREW A BERLIN ,  G A NAVIL CONELL

IPC: B41J2/385 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/14 ,  B41J2/21

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print head capable of high quality and high speed print ing. SOLUTION: There is disclosed a print head 34 used in a printer. In the print head 34, a propelling medium flows in a fluid passage toward a printing medium 38 and a printing material such as ink or toner is controlled to be introduced into the propelling medium flow such that sufficient energy for moving to the printing medium 38 is supplied to the them. A plurality of fluid passages for directing the propelling medium flow and printing material enable high quality and high resolution printing. The plurality of printing materials are introduced into the passage to be mixed in the fluid passage before printing on the printing medium 38. The printing materials are mixed and superposed on the printing medium 38 without executing aligning of a registor. One embodiment of a full-color printer having a single fluid passage is disclosed.