Printing method using quill-jet
AssigneePalo Alto Research Center Incorporated
InventorEric Peeters
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Abstract
A system for depositing a material is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer small amounts of material from a source of material to a substrate surface. One application for the system is a printing system in which the material is an ink and the substrate is a sheet of paper. By repeating this process, the cantilever places many units of ink to form the pixels in an image.
Claims31
A method of printing comprising:
- bringing a tip end of a cantilever in contact with a source of marking material;
- adjusting an actuator resulting in movement of the tip end of the cantilever from the source of marking material to a surface to be printed, the tip end transferring a unit of marking material from the source of marking material to the surface to be printed.
A method of printing a plurality of pixels to form an image, the method comprising:
- moving a first tip of a first cantilever between a source of ink and a surface to be printed to print a first set of pixels in the plurality of pixels;
- moving a second tip of a second cantilever between a second source of ink and the surface to be printed to print a second set of pixels in the plurality of pixels;
- and,
- moving a third tip of a third cantilever between a third source of ink and the surface to be printed to print a third set of pixels in the plurality of pixels.
A method of print a plurality of pixels to create an image, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic representation of an image;
- transmitting instructions from a processor to move a first tip of a first cantilever between a first source of ink and a surface to be printed, the first tip to print a first set of pixels in the plurality of pixels;
- transmitting instructions from a processor to move a second tip of a second cantilever between a second source of ink and the surface to be printed, the second tip to print a second set of pixels in the plurality of pixels;
- and,
- transmitting instructions from a processor to move a third tip of a third cantilever between a third source of ink and a surface to be printed, the third tip to print a third set of pixels in the plurality of pixels.
A method of depositing a material comprising the operations of:
- moving a first tip of a first cantilever between a source of material and a deposition surface, the first tip to move a quantity of material less than 100 picoliters from the source of material to the deposition surface;
- and,
- moving a second tip of a second cantilever between the source of material and the deposition surface the second tip to move a second quantity of material less than 100 picoliters from the source of material to the deposition surface.
A method of depositing a material comprising the operations of:
- bringing a tip end of a cantilever in contact with a material to be deposited;
- and,
- adjusting an actuator to move the tip end of the cantilever between a source of material to be deposited and a deposition surface, the tip to move a quantity of material less than 100 picoliters from the source of material to be deposited to the deposition surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.