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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1994
Satoru Hosono, Nagano, JP;
Shoichi Hiraide, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet printing head which prints image data with ink droplets without impairing print quality or causing the recording paper to be excessively wetted. The ink jet recording head includes pressure producing chambers communicating with nozzle openings, and piezoelectric vibrating elements for expanding and contracting the pressure producing chambers. Whether print data is graphics image data or text data is determined by a data judging unit, and as a result of the determination, a time constant of a variable time constant adjusting unit is set to a longer time in the case of printing image data than in the case of printing text data. Also the pressure producing chambers are caused to expand without undergoing damped oscillation for a time which is longer than the natural vibration cycle of the piezoelectric vibrating element.