US 2001/0055044 A1 · Ink jet printing method and ink jet printer

Abstract

An ink jet printer has an ink jet printing head including plural nozzles arranged in a main scan direction, for ejecting ink. A feeder rollers move continuous recording sheet relative to the printing head in a sub scan direction, to print plural images to the continuous recording sheet. A system controller operates to clean the printing head in a beginning or ending position of respectively the plural images. The printing head prints a cutting indicia to the recording material upon being cleaned. The cutting indicia is adapted to separating the images.

Claims32

Dependent claims

An ink jet printing method in which a printing head is used, and has plural nozzles for ejecting ink, said ink jet printing method comprising steps of:

printing at least one image to recording material with said printing head;
and
before or after printing said image, cleaning said printing head by driving at least part of said plural nozzles.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/886,364Filed 22 Jun 2001

Priority

JP 2000-19171726 Jun 2000

Published

27 Dec 2001

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

B41J 2/16585
Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles: for paper-width or non-reciprocating print heads
B41J 11/46
Controlling printing material conveyance for accurate alignment of the printing material with the printhead; Print registering: by marks or…
B41J 11/663
Applications of cutting devices: controlling cutting, cutting resulting in special shapes of the cutting line, e.g. controlling cutting positions,…
B41J 11/666
Applications of cutting devices: cutting partly, e.g. cutting only the uppermost layer of a multiple-layer printing material

Ink jet printing method and ink jet printer

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Abstract

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