Quill-jet printer
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.
Claims32
A cantilever system to print an image comprising:
- a first marking material source to provide a marking material;
- a first cantilever including a first tip end to move between the first marking material source and a surface to be printed, the first cantilever having a length less than 2000 micrometers;
- and,
- a control system to control movement of the first cantilever between the first marking material source and the surface to be printed.
A cantilever system to print an image, the cantilever system comprising:
- a source of ink;
- a surface to be printed;
- and,
- a cantilever, the cantilever including a fixed end and a moveable tip opposite the fixed end, the fixed end to move units of ink from the source of ink to the surface to be printed, each unit of ink approximately equal the unit of ink in a pixel of the image.
A cantilever printing system to print an image, the cantilever printing system comprising:
- a plurality of cantilevers placed to span the approximate width of a surface to be printed;
- a plurality of ink sources to provide ink to the plurality of cantilevers;
- and,
- a plurality of control mechanism, each control mechanism to control movement of at least one cantilever to move a tip end of the cantilever between an ink source in the plurality of ink sources and the surface to be printed, the control mechanism to control the movement to print an image.
A cantilever system to deposit a material comprising:
- a first material source to provide a material for deposition;
- a first cantilever including a first tip end to move material for deposition from the first material source to a deposition surface, the first cantilever having a length less than 2000 micrometers;
- and,
- a control system to control movement of the first cantilever between the first material source and deposition surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.