Abstract:
An image recording device, wherein deviation of an image-recording start position, which results from a difference in the amount of expansion and contraction based on temperature changes between a printing plate precursor, a rotating support, a mechanism for moving a recording head, and the like, is corrected so that an image can be recorded at a proper position. Temperature 1 near the rotating support is obtained by a first temperature sensor, and temperature 2 near the mechanism is obtained by a second temperature sensor. Then, an amount for correcting an image-recording start position is obtained from a correction table based on the temperatures 1 and 2 and on a size of the printing plate precursor, and the number of drive pulses for correction corresponding to the obtained amount of correction is outputted to a drive motor of the mechanism.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for causing a coinciding of resolutions of facsimile devices having different systems of measurement. The different systems of measurement can be a metric system and an English system of measurements. The method according to the present invention includes the steps of: exchanging protocols between a transmission-side facsimile device and a reception-side facsimile and determining a designed unit and a resolution of the reception-side facsimile device; calculating a rotating velocity of a step motor to be adapted to the designed unit and the resolution; driving the step motor at the rotating velocity to scan a document; and transmitting data obtained from the document to the reception-side facsimile device. The method according to another aspect of the present invention includes the steps of: exchanging protocols between a transmission-side facsimile device and a reception-side facsimile device to determine a designed unit and a resolution of the transmission-side facsimile device when a communication line is established between the transmission-side facsimile device and the reception-side facsimile device; calculating a rotating velocity of the step motor to be adapted to the designed unit and the resolution; receiving data transmitted from the transmission-side facsimile device; and driving the step motor at the rotating velocity to print the data received to the reception-side facsimile device.
Abstract:
Color electrophotographic printers having latent image positions synchronized with start-of-scan signals. A laser source projects a laser beam onto a multifaceted rotating polygon that sweeps that beam in a scan line across a moving photoreceptor. A start-of-scan detector produces start-of-scan signals when the laser beam is in position to write a scan line. A belt sensor produces belt signals when indicia on the photoreceptor passes a reference position. A controller receives the belt signals and the start-of-scan and then adjusts the photoreceptors rotational velocity such that the belt signals are an integral multiple of the start-of-scan signals. To reduce the impact of drive roller eccentricities on belt signal to start-of-scan signal timing, the perimeters of photoreceptor roller elements are sub-multiples of the photoreceptor length.
Abstract:
An image is accurately recorded by a light beam on a PS plate wound on a drum which is rotating at a constant speed. A rotary encoder detects information of a recording position in a main scanning direction by the light beam that is emitted from an optical unit to the PS plate. Based on the detected information, a PLL circuit of a recording synchronizing signal generating unit generates an original clock. Pulses of the original clock are counted by a decimating counter, which outputs a decimating instruction to decimate a pulse from the original clock each time the count reaches a preset count. Based on the decimating instruction, a pulse is decimated from the original clock, and a decimated clock is frequency-divided at a fixed frequency-dividing ratio by a frequency divider, which outputs a pixel clock for recording the image. Since the frequency of the pixel clock is varied by decimating the original clock based on the preset count, the image can accurately be recorded on the PS plate by determining in advance the preset count depending on the positional relationship between the PS plate and the optical unit.
Abstract:
A method for correcting scanning errors in a shuttle type of a scanner, including the steps of scanning a pattern sheet on which pattern data having a specified shape are recorded. Errors for decline of the pattern data are corrected by using the pattern data having a straight line among the scanned pattern data having the specified shape. Then, errors for distance between bands are corrected by using the pattern data having the specified shape among the pattern data of which the errors for decline are corrected. Accordingly, since the errors for decline and the errors for distance between the bands can be corrected by using a computing program, there is an advantage in that correcting the errors of the pattern data is very simple. A further advantage is in that even if the scanner is subjected to an impact from its exterior, correcting the errors for decline and the errors for distance between the bands can be promptly performed.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an LED array for performing exposure according to an input image signal, a photoconductive drum on which an electrostatic latent image is formed by exposure with the LED array, a developing device for making the electrostatic image visible, a transfer charger for transferring the visible image onto a transfer material, and a fixing device for fixing the image on the transfer material. When the operating speed in an image forming process equals the image forming speed, and the image forming speed can be switched among a plurality of levels, the image forming condition is changed in accordance with the image forming speed.
Abstract:
A first polygonal motor correction value and a first drum motor correction value are provided to the polygonal motor and the photosensitive drum motor so that an image formed by a printer unit has a 100% magnification on the basis of data provided from a reference pattern generating unit which generates an ideal pattern data having no magnification error. Next, a document, on which a predetermined pattern is printed, is scanned by a scanner unit, and then, a second polygonal motor correction value and a carriage motor correction value are provided to the polygonal motor and the carriage motor so that an image printed using the printer unit has a 100% magnification. In the case of forming an image by the printer unit in a state that a main scanning/feed direction of the scanned image is inverted, an image is formed using the first polygonal motor correction value, the carriage motor correction value and a second drum motor correction value calculated from the first and second polygonal motor correction values and the first drum motor correction value.
Abstract:
A film scanner performs a main-scan of a film by an imaging device and performs a sub-scan of the imaging device so as to enable scanning at any resolution using a simple configuration. The scanning mechanism, for the sub-scan of the film with respect to the imaging device, has a transport table for supporting the film held by a film holder and transporting it in a sub-scan direction and a transport mechanism for moving the transport table in the sub-scan direction. The source of the drive power of the transport mechanism is a scan motor (stepper motor) driven by a pulse signal output from a motor drive circuit. The motor drive circuit is configured to enable micro-stepping of the scan motor.
Abstract:
The recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs dot-recording on the recording material through a plurality of recording elements arranged on the recording head; a mechanism to move the recording head in a main scan direction to perform recording; and a transport mechanism to feed the recording material in a sub-scan direction perpendicular to the main scan direction after each main scan operation. The transport mechanism is formed of a combination of driving elements including a driving source. The feeding distance that the recording material is fed in one feeding operation is set synchronized with the driving cycle of the driving elements including the driving source. This arrangement allows the recording head, which has an array of ink ejection nozzles arranged with a conventional density, to produce a dot-recorded image having a resolution two or more times higher than the conventional resolution.
Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus which can correct a conveying velocity of a sheet is constructed by, a conveying unit to convey the sheet, a reader such as a CCD linear sensor for reading a fringe pattern formed on a pattern sheet while the pattern sheet is conveyed by the conveying unit, a detector to detect a conveying velocity of the pattern sheet on the basis of the pattern read by the reader, and a controller to control a conveying velocity of the conveying unit on the basis of the conveying velocity detected by the detector.