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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1983
Francis C Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Ross N Mills, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert N Payne, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank E Talke, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An ink jet drop-on-demand printing system comprising an ink jet print head having an ink cavity supplied with a suitable ink. An electromechanical transducer is mounted in mechanical communication with the ink cavity, and a source of electrical signals is provided to selectively actuate the transducer to produce an ink drop of a selected size. To produce ink drops of a selected size the source of electrical signals produces one or more electrical drive signals each separated by a fixed time delay which is short with respect to the drop-on-demand drop production rate. Each electrical drive signal ejects a predetermined volume of ink and all the volumes of ink merge to form a single drop prior to the time the ink drops reach the print medium for printing.