Jet performance
AssigneeFUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.
InventorsSteven H. Barss, William R. Letendre, JR., Paul A. Hoisington
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Abstract
Among other things, for ink jetting, a system includes a printhead including at least 25 jets and an imaging device to capture image information for all of the jets simultaneously, the captured image information being useful in analyzing a performance of each of the jets.
Claims41
A system for use in ink jetting, the system comprising:
- a printhead including at least 25 jets;
- and
- an imaging device to capture image information for all of the jets simultaneously, the captured image information being useful in analyzing a performance of each of the jets.
A method for use in jetting ink comprising generating an image of a composite droplet based on at least two image portions that respectively capture image information for portions of ink droplets that are jetted from a jet at successive time periods, each time period being the period of the capturing of the image information.
A method for use in measuring performance of jets in a printhead containing at least 25 jets, the method comprising capturing image information for all of the jets simultaneously for use in analyzing the performance of each of the jets.
A method for use in jetting ink from an ink jet, the method comprising:
- capturing images of portions of less than all of respective droplets that are jetted from the ink jet at successive time periods, each time period being the period of the capturing;
- and
- using the captured images to infer information about characteristics of each of the droplets that is jetted from the ink jet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.