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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2011.15.8.1727

A Jet Strobe Signal Timing Control of Ink Jet Printer Head for Enhancement of Printing Speed and Quality  

Cho, Young-Wan (서경대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.15, no.8, 2011 , pp. 1727-1734 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a position control scheme of the ink droplet is presented for the high image quality and print speed ink jet printer. The proposed scheme estimates the impact position and compensates it by control of the jet strobe time based on the dynamic equations describing the moving trajectory of the ejected ink droplet. Compared to the conventional jet strobe control which is based on the simple synchronization with the position signal of the ink jet nozzle, the proposed control scheme provides more accurate impact position control while the carrier is moving with accelerated or decelerated speed as well as steady state speed with fluctuations. The availability of printing during the acceleration and deceleration states of the carrier moving enables the print speed up and the frame size down which means the cost down.
Keywords
Ink jet printer; Jet strobe time control; Impact position control; Droplet trajectory;
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