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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 30, 2000
Hirofumi Teramae, Nagano-Ken, JP;
Satoru Hosono, Nagano-Ken, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink-jet recording head driving method of driving an ink-jet recording head having a pressure generating device corresponding to a pressure generating chamber communicating with a jetting hole includes a driving pulse generating step of generating a driving pulse by taking out part of a driving signal having a time length corresponding to one printing cycle and including a plurality of driving pulse waves, and an ink jetting step of jetting an ink particle through the jetting hole by applying the driving pulse to the pressure generating device to drive the pressure generating device for a predetermined operation. When the driving pulse generating step and the ink jetting step are repeated a plurality of times in one printing cycle to jet a plurality of ink particles, the succeeding ink jetting step is stated a predetermined time interval T after a point when the preceding ink jetting step is ended. The predetermined time interval T is equal to or longer than one period T of the Helmholtz vibration of the pressure generating chamber.