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US 7,441,887 B2Granted
Ink-jet print system
AssigneeMitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
InventorsTakao Senga, Kunio Kasamatsu, Akitoshi Kajihara
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AssigneeMitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
InventorsTakao Senga, Kunio Kasamatsu, Akitoshi Kajihara
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An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet print system in which quality troubles (e.g. banding and ink overflow) caused by an unsuitable combination of ink and an ink jet recording medium in an ink jet recording apparatus in the case where the ink jet recording medium is an imitation, are obviated on the basis of printing control information obtained from the ink jet recording medium with an information-detecting sensor, and it is possible to prevent the employment of an ink jet recording medium which a user cannot judge to be a genuine product or an imitation. According to the present invention, an ink jet print system can be obtained in which printing information obtained from an image processor and the printing control information of the ink jet recording medium obtained from the information-detecting sensor are processed and on the basis of information of these kinds, the best image is always formed with the ink jet recording apparatus by the use of a genuine product. The printing control information of the ink jet recording medium is preferably a logo print or a cord image print. The ink jet recording medium is preferably of a rolled paper type. The system is stopped when an imitation is used which does not match with the printing control information.
An ink jet print system in which an ink jet recording medium previously having printing control information is continuously driven with a conveying apparatus, and print data is continuously processed with an ink jet recording apparatus set in the middle of a conveyance pathway, to output a printed image, wherein the printing control information involves information of various kinds about the kind of ink most suitable for the ink jet recording medium, the kind of a substrate and the kind of an ink-receiving layer(s), and at least one item of information for controlling a conveying and driving apparatus, an ink jet recording apparatus, and a discharging apparatus for ink nozzles in the recording apparatus, a cutter apparatus, a tray apparatus and the like, which information is for controlling a series of the apparatuses of the ink jet print system on the basis of the above-mentioned information of various kinds.
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