Inkjet printer apparatus and method of driving the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsDongsul Kim, Honggi Min, Minsoo Kim
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Abstract
An inkjet printer apparatus includes a printing head including a plurality of nozzles for printing an ink in a plurality of pixels arranged as a matrix type in a target substrate, a control circuit which moves the printing head in an x-direction crossing an y-direction of a scan direction, and determines an optimal position for using largest nozzles, and a driving part which moves the printing head to the optimal position and moves the printing head along the y-direction in the optimal position.
Claims16
An inkjet printer apparatus comprising:
- a printing head comprising a plurality of nozzles which prints an ink in a plurality of pixels arranged as a matrix type in a target substrate;
- a control circuit which moves the printing head in an x-direction crossing an y-direction of a scan direction, and determines an optimal position for using a maximum number of nozzles of the plurality of nozzles;
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- a driving part which moves the printing head to the optimal position and moves the printing head along the y-direction in the optimal position,
- wherein the control circuit determines n pixels, among the plurality of pixels, arranged in the x-direction of the target substrate corresponding to an x-direction length of the printing head, to a pixel group,
- determines the optimal position of the printing head within an x-direction length of a first pixel, among the plurality of pixels, of the pixel group, and
- wherein the control circuit aligns an end portion of a first nozzle, among the plurality of nozzles, in the printing head and an end portion of the first pixel of the pixel group to determine an initial position, and
- determines the optimal position of the printing head using a reference shift value preset with respect to the x-direction length of the first pixel in the printing head.
A method of driving an inkjet printer apparatus which comprises a printing head comprising a plurality of nozzles for printing an ink in a plurality of pixels arranged as a matrix type in a target substrate, the method comprising:
- moving the printing head in an x-direction crossing an y-direction of a scan direction;
- determining an optimal position for using a maximum number of nozzles of the plurality of nozzles;
- moving the printing head to the optimal position;
- moving the printing head along the y-direction in the optimal position;
- determining n pixels, among the plurality of pixels, arranged in the x-direction of the target substrate corresponding to an x-direction length of the printing head, to a pixel group;
- determining the optimal position of the printing head within the x-direction length of a first pixel, among the plurality of pixels, of the pixel group;
- aligning an end portion of a first nozzle, among the plurality of nozzles, in the printing head and an end portion of the first pixel of the pixel group to determine an initial position;
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- determining the optimal position of the printing head using a reference shift value preset with respect to the x-direction length of the first pixel in the printing head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.