Peking University

Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd.

Founder Information Industry Holdings Co., Ltd.

Zhihong Liu

Feng Chen

Xiaohui Wen

Dan Li

Wei Zhu

Zhenhua Li

Bin Yang

Shuai Wang

Zhengsheng Zhou

Peng Jin

Hong Shen

Shaowei Guo

Jianguo Yu

Yongtai Zhang

Jiunguo Yu

Zhaoxiang Lin

Disclosed are a method for obtaining print processing time and an electronic device having a print function which can be connected with a printer. The method comprises: executing a print instruction to make the printer perform a print operation on a first file while the current system time of the electronic device is recorded, referred to as time; looking up in the print folder corresponding to the printer in the electronic device whether there is a second file with the extension .SPL corresponding to the first file; when the second file is found, reading the creation time of the second file, referred to as time; detecting in the print folder that whether the second file has been modified to a third file; and when the second file is detected to have been modified to the third file, reading the modification time of the second file, referred to as time

Electronic device and method for obtaining print processing time

A method and device for checking nozzles in an inkjet printer is disclosed. The checking method comprises: obtaining an electronically scanned image which is a printed paper image printed by the inkjet printer according to a checking image, correspondence relationships between pixel point positions and numbers of nozzles in the inkjet printer being preset in the checking image (step 11); analyzing the scanned image to obtain pixel point positions free of ink in the scanned image (step 12); and according to the pixel point positions free of ink, obtaining and outputting the corresponding nozzle numbers (step 13). This invention may realize automatic checking of blocked nozzles, improve the convenience of checking, and reduce the error rate of checking.

Method and device for checking nozzle of inkjet printer

The present invention provides a control system for use in digital printing, comprising: a host; multiple main control boards connected to the host, multiple sets of nozzle plates, wherein each set of nozzle plate respectively is connected to one main control board and to one set of nozzle. The present invention also provides a control method for use in digital printing, comprising: the host decomposing a job into multiple portions, and distributing each portion of the job to one main control board; the main control boards concurrently converting received portions of the job into pages and distributing the pages to a set of nozzle plates connected thereto; the nozzle plates converting the pages into printing data and driving the nozzle sets connected to the nozzle boards to print the printing data thereof. The present invention achieves the effect of improving processing performance of the control system.

Control system and method for use in digital printing

This invention provides an inkjet printing positioning device and control method thereof. The inkjet printing positioning device comprises: base; linear guide rail fixedly mounted on the base; inkjet unit, moving in matched manner with the linear guide rail; ball screw, driving the inkjet unit to move linearly when being rotated; servomotor, for driving the ball screw to rotate; zero position detecting device, mounted in a position on the moving travel route of the inkjet unit from the initial position to the printing area, and for sending zero position signal when detects that the inkjet unit is passing by; controller connecting the zero position detecting device and the servomotor, and for controlling the servomotor to drive the inkjet unit to move from the current position to the printing area and locate there, and controlling the servomotor to drive the inkjet unit to move predetermined displacement upon receipt of zero position signal.

Inkjet printing positioning device and control method thereof

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling pauses in printing. The method includes: transmitting imaging data to an imaging unit, and transmitting one printing signal while transmitting the imaging data of each page which are printed when the imaging unit receives the printing signal; generating a command of pausing printing when receiving a cause of pausing; stopping transmitting the printing signal to the imaging unit according to the command of pausing printing, printing the imaging data is stopped when the imaging unit cannot receive the printing signal.

Method and apparatus for controlling pauses in printing

Disclosed are a multicolor overprint control method and device applicable to an intermittent printing apparatus. According to the operating characteristic of the intermittent printing apparatus, the method solves the problems of overlap and inaccurate overprint of various colors during intermittent printing by controlling the relationship between the distance between adjacent color group modules of different colors and the motion distance between uniform segments of the intermittent printing apparatus. In addition, the method also sets different inkjet printing modes in accordance with whether the detected inkjet printing of the same color group module is in a first period, thereby solving the problems of printing media waste and discontinuous printing data. The method achieves multicolor digital inkjet printing by combining the unique motion mode of the printing media thereof, and makes printing contents flexible and changeable on the basis of guaranteeing printing efficiency.

Method and apparatus for controlling multicolor overprint of intermittent print device

This application discloses a method for controlling jet printing positions, including: detecting a color code of an inputted paper by a color code sensor, and outputting a pulse signal when the color code is detected; configuring an expectation window where the pulse signal is expected to be generated; initiating jet printing after a predetermined delay period when the pulse signal is detected in the expectation window; and initiating jet printing after correction when no pulse signal is detected in the expectation window or the pulse signal is detected outside the expectation window. The method may improve the quality of jet printing.

Method and device for controlling inkjet printing position

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating multi-site FM screen dots simultaneously. The method according to the present invention can simultaneously process multiple neighboring pixels in the same row each time and generate multi-site screen dots; and meanwhile the method according to the present invention can renew simultaneously the error accumulation values of multiple locations of error row memory. The apparatus according to the present invention consists of an error row memory, an error row memory control circuit, an error allocation/accumulation register file, an error allocation/accumulation register file control circuit, and a screen dots generating circuit. The method and the apparatus according to the present invention can greatly improve the generating speed of FM screen dots, and only one read-write operation of the error row memory is needed during processing the multiple neighboring pixels each time.

Method and apparatus for generating multi-site FM screen dots simultaneously

Disclosed is a pulse width control device, including: a first monostable multivibrator, for receiving a synchronization pulse, and generating a negative pulse whose width is a first preset threshold; a second monostable multivibrator, for receiving the synchronization pulse, and generating a positive pulse whose width is a second preset threshold; an inverter, for receiving the synchronization pulse, and inverting the synchronization pulse, and outputting an inverted synchronization pulse; and a flip-flop, for receiving the negative pulse, the positive pulse and the inverted synchronization pulse, and generating a synchronization pulse with a width between the first threshold and the second threshold.

Pulse width control device and method, inkjet printing device using the device

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus capable of generating frequency-modulation halftone dots in high speed and belongs to the field of the digital image halftone. In the prior art, read-write operation is usually carried out many times in error rows during processing each pixel so that halftone dots are generated in low speed. In the method according to the present invention, the error generated by the current pixel is buffered in a register file and the final accumulated error values are written in the error rows only after all of the relative pixels are processed. Thus, read-write operation is carried out only once in the error rows for processing each pixel. The present invention also provides an apparatus to implement the method. The apparatus comprises an error row memory, an error buffer register file, a gray generation circuit, a threshold comparison circuit, an error generation circuit, an error buffer register file control circuit, and an error row control circuit. The method and apparatus according to the present invention decrease the steps in operation and improve the speed for generating the frequency-modulation halftone dots.

Method and apparatus capable of producing FM halftone dots in high speed

The present application discloses trapezoidal fire pulse generating methods and devices. According to the devices and methods of the present application, the voltage value of the positive DC control voltage signal, the voltage value of the negative DC control voltage signal, the voltage value of the rise-time DC control voltage signal and a fall-time DC control voltage signal can be determined according to the parameter values of a trapezoidal fire pulse required to be output. Thus, corresponding DC control voltage signals can be generated. Further, the positive DC control voltage signal and the negative DC control voltage signal can be modulated to a square-wave pulse. Then, the rise-time DC control voltage signal, the fall-time DC control voltage signal and the square-wave pulse can be input to a inverse integrator so as to generate a trapezoidal fire pulse. Since there are specific quantitative relations between the rise time and fall time of the trapezoidal fire pulse and the voltage values of the rise-time and fall-time DC control voltage signals, the corresponding rise time and fall time of the trapezoidal fire pulses can be accurately controlled and adjusted so that the output trapezoidal fire pulses can be more stable and accurate.

Methods and devices for generating trapezoidal fire pulses

Disclosed are devices and methods for generating dots of an image by using two error row memories, which are capable of reading and writing data synchronously. A device disclosed comprises: a buffer memory A; a buffer memory B; and a memory controller. The memory controller may comprise a read-write control circuit for the buffer memory A, a read-write control circuit for the buffer memory B, and a buffer memory selection circuit. The buffer memory selection circuit is used to generate a read-write selection signal for the buffer memory A and the buffer memory B. The read-write control circuit for the buffer memory A is connected to the buffer memory A and used to implement a read operation or a write operation on the buffer memory A according to the read-write selection signal. The read-write control circuit for the buffer memory B is connected to the buffer memory B and used to implement a read operation or a write operation on the buffer memory B according to the read-write selection signal. The devices and methods are capable of implementing read and write operations on memories synchronously, which can improve the speed of error diffusion during use.

Methods and devices for generating dots of an image by using two error row memories

The present invention belongs to the field of printing control technology, and is especially one kind of printing control method with reducing printing memory requirement. The available printing technology always needs complicated segment forming gratings in advance and occupying great amount of memory. The printing control method of the present invention includes interpreting the page data as banded intermediate format data, calculating the time for forming grating of each band of the intermediate format data, pre-analyzing the bands with time for forming grating greater than the printing time, and arranging the job of forming grating of the complicated bands in the idle print time as far as possible. The said method can reduce the band number of forming gratings in advance and reduce the printing memory requirement.

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