International Business Machines Corporation

Bruce Allen Wolfe

Joseph T Wilson, Iii

Johann Hans Meier

Donald F Manning

Louis V Galetto

Walter Thornton Pimbley

James Calvin Walsh

A dot matrix printer apparatus has a magnetic ink jet recording head which projects a continuous stream of ferro-fluid ink drops toward a print medium. The ink drops are rastered in the direction orthogonal to the direction of relative motion of the recording head and the print medium to form characters from columns of dots. The slant of the characters caused by the change in direction of relative motion is controlled by reversing the direction or sequence of rastering of ink drops when the direction of printing reverses.

Bi-directional dot matrix printer with slant control

Method of improving mark alignment by causing substantially simultaneous impact on a recording medium of drops issuing as a series from an ink jet nozzle moving relative to the recording medium, by successively decreasing the deflection of each drop in the series and positioning the nozzle with respect to the recording surface to alter the respective path lengths of the drops such that the first and last drops of the series reach the recording member at approximately the same time.

Ink jet nozzle with tilted arrangement

An ink jet printer apparatus and method using ink carrying magnetizable particles, the ink being passed as a stream of droplets sequentially through an electromagnetic field and an electrostatic field, in that order. The droplets are selectively charged electrostatically. All drops are subjected to a time dependent magnetic flux field which effects scans of the drops at a recording surface. Drops not to be used are deflected by electrostatic deflection plates to a gutter.

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Bruce Allen Wolfe