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Ink drop duplicating system
Assignee: Kodak Versamark Inc
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Filing: 1982-03-08
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Granted: 1984-08-21
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Expires: 2002-03-08
Abstract
Abstract An ink drop duplicating system employs a plurality of angularly extending ink drop print heads to reproduce an original document. Each printing head produces a row of drop streams which are individually controlled to deposit printing drops at a plurality of printing positions along a line extending perpendicular to the major axis of the printing head. Printing control information for the ink drop printing heads is generated by a photosensing array which extends across one major dimension of an original document and which is scanned across the other major dimension. Scanning data is stored on a magnetic disk. After one or more original documents have been completely scanned, the scanning data is read from the magnetic disk and reorganized to produce drop control signals for the ink drop printing heads.
Inventors
- 👤 Thomas W. Bobick
- 👤 Frederic L. Clark
- 👤 Suresh C. Paranjpe
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 23:58
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/04; H04N1/19; H04N1/195; H04N1/19505; H04N1/1951; B; B41; B41J; B41J2/00; B41J2/005; B41J2/01; B41J2/07; H04N1/191; H04N1/192; H04N1/193; H04N1/19521; H04N1/19526; H04N1/19531; H04N1/19584
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
256 words
An ink drop duplicating system comprising: a support member; means for transporting a printing substrate across said support member; a plurality of parallel and angularly extending jet drop printing heads supported adjacent said support member and collectively defining a printing region for progressive printing of a printing substrate transported therethrough, each of said printing heads comprising means for generating an angularly extending row of drop streams, deflecting means for deflecting selected ones of the drops comprising said streams in a direction perpendicular to the direction of extent of said row so as to deposit upon said printing substrate at predetermined angularly extending printing positions, drop control means responsive to a series of drop commands for selecting those of said drops which are to be so deposited, and catching means extending parallel to the direction of extent of said row for catching those of said drops which are not so selected; sensing means for viewing a series of picture elements at side-by-side sensing positions within a strip extending across an original document and generating a series of print/no-print data bits corresponding to the picture elements so viewed; scanning means for causing said strip to be scanned along said document so that said sensing means views all portions thereof which are to be duplicated, and data control means for establishing a locational correspondence between said sensing positions and said printing positions, selecting said data bits in accordance with said locational correspondence and generating said drop commands in accordance with the print/no-print states of the data bits so selected.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
256 words
An ink drop duplicating system comprising: a support member; means for transporting a printing substrate across said support member; a plurality of parallel and angularly extending jet drop printing heads supported adjacent said support member and collectively defining a printing region for progressive printing of a printing substrate transported therethrough, each of said printing heads comprising means for generating an angularly extending row of drop streams, deflecting means for deflecting selected ones of the drops comprising said streams in a direction perpendicular to the direction of extent of said row so as to deposit upon said printing substrate at predetermined angularly extending printing positions, drop control means responsive to a series of drop commands for selecting those of said drops which are to be so deposited, and catching means extending parallel to the direction of extent of said row for catching those of said drops which are not so selected; sensing means for viewing a series of picture elements at side-by-side sensing positions within a strip extending across an original document and generating a series of print/no-print data bits corresponding to the picture elements so viewed; scanning means for causing said strip to be scanned along said document so that said sensing means views all portions thereof which are to be duplicated, and data control means for establishing a locational correspondence between said sensing positions and said printing positions, selecting said data bits in accordance with said locational correspondence and generating said drop commands in accordance with the print/no-print states of the data bits so selected.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
70 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said drop cotrol means comprises charging means for selectively charging drops in said streams to one of a plurality of different charging levels and said deflecting means comprises means for generating a static electrical field extending across the paths of said streams in the direction of desired drop deflection, so that the drops passing therethrough are deflected in said direction toward said printing positions.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
20 words
Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said catching means are positioned for catching those of said drops which are uncharged.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
Apparatus according to any of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein four of said printing heads are provided.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
41 words
Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein each of said printing heads is inclined at an angle of 52.2388 degrees with respect to a line which is perpendicular to the direction of movement of said printing substrate relative to said support member.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
36 words
Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said strip extends across one major dimension of said document and further wherein said scanning means causes scanning motion of said strip along the other major dimension of said document.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
37 words
Apparatus according to claim 6 and further comprising non-volatile storage means for storage of data originated by said sensing means and a random access memory connected to operate as an input/output port for said non-volatile storage means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
31 words
Apparatus according to claim 7 wherein said random access memory supplies said print/no-print data bits to said non-volatile storage means in sequence corresponding to the scanning sequence by said sensing means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
47 words
Apparatus according to claim 8 wherein said data control means comprises means for addressing said random access memory to read out said data bits in a sequence corresponding to the printing sequence of said printing heads so that said data bits are transformed into said drop commands.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
14 words
Apparatus according to claim 9 wherein said non-volatile storage means comprises a magnetic disk.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
32 words
Apparatus according to claim 7 wherein said photosensing means comprise a row of photosensing elements for viewing columns on said original document which are evenly spaced across one dimension of said document.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
70 words
Apparatus according to claim 11 wherein said printing heads are angled with respect to said copy sheet by an angle γ such that ##EQU8## and wherein S H is the width of said columns and d is the deflection distance between adjacent ones of the printing trajectories of one of said streams, as measured at the plane of said copy sheet and perpendicular to the axes of said printing heads.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
41 words
Apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said streams are generated by rows of orifices in each of said heads which are spaced at a center-to-center spacing J such that ##EQU9## where M represents the number of printing trajectories for each stream.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
40 words
Apparatus according to claim 13 wherein said transport means moves said copy sheet at a speed V p such that ##EQU10## where G is an integer number and f p is the frequency of generation of said multi-level control signals.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
18 words
Apparatus according to any of claims 11 through 14 wherein each of said streams has four printing trajectories.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
35 words
Apparatus according to claim 7 wherein said data control means comprises means for causing the data stored within said non-volatile storage means to be read out repetitively for producing multiple copies of said original document.
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