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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1995
John A Widder, Camas, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An ink-jet printing system includes an ink-jet print head having multiple nozzles for ejecting drops of ink onto the recording media to form printed images. The ink-jet print head emits an audible sound during the ejection of an ink droplet, but remains comparatively silent when no ink droplet is ejected. An acoustic detector is provided to detect the audible sound emitted by the ink-jet print head during ejection of the ink droplet. The system further includes an energy control subsystem coupled to supply pulses of operating energy to the print head to cause ejection of the ink droplets. The energy control subsystem is operatively coupled to receive feed back information from the acoustic detector which is then used to adjust the operating energy pulses that are supplied to the print head. The energy control subsystem adjusts the operating energy pulses in a manner that causes the print head to emit audible sounds that are optimized toward approximating an ideal audible sound indicative of optimal operation.