Ink jet printer production techniques
AssigneeAssa Abloy AB
InventorsBrent D. Lien, Tanya Jegeris Snyder, Evan Pastor
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Abstract
Techniques for operating a printer are provided. In an example, the printer can include a print head a cure light and a controller. The controller can be configured to move the print head relative to a print media to print a given image, to move the cure light relative to the print media at a cure speed in response to the cure light passing over a printed portion of the given image to cure the ink of the given image, and to move the cure light at an index speed in response to the cure light passing over a non-printed portion of the given image, wherein the index speed is greater than the cure speed.
Claims20
A printer comprising:
- a print head configured to selectively convey light-curable ink toward a print media to generate a first given image;
- a cure light configured to project cure illumination toward the print media;
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- a controller configured to move the print head relative to the print media to print the first given image;
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- in response to the first given image occupying a portion of the print media biased toward a first edge of the print media such that the first given image extends between the first edge of the print media and less than half way across the print media toward a second edge of the print media, the controller is further configured to move the cure light relative to the print media at a cure speed in a first direction toward the second edge to cure the first given image, truncate moving the cure light at a position less than half way between the first edge and the second edge, and retract the cure light toward the first edge at an index speed, wherein the index speed is greater than the cure speed.
A printer comprising:
- a print head configured to selectively convey light-curable ink toward the print media to generate a first given image;
- a cure light configured to project cure illumination toward the print media;
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- a controller configured to:
- move the print head relative to the print media to print the first given image;
- to move the cure light relative to the print media at a cure speed in response to the cure light passing over a printed portion of the print media to cure ink of the printed portion;
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- to move the cure light at an index speed with respect to the print media in response to the cure light passing over a non-printed portion of the print media;
- wherein the index speed is greater than the cure speed.
A printer comprising:
- a print head configured to selectively convey light-curable ink toward a first print media to print a first given image on the first print media;
- a cure light configured to project cure illumination toward the first print media;
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- a controller configured to:
- move the first print media, with the first given image printed thereon, in a first direction at a first speed;
- move the cure light in the first direction at a second speed slower than the first speed, such that the cure light is passed over the first given image at a third speed in a second direction, opposite the first direction, relative to the first print media, the third speed being the difference between the first and second speeds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.