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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Chih-Hung Kao, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Fan Fang, Taipei, TW;
Acer Communications and Multimedia Inc., Taoyuan, TW;
Abstract
A method for driving an ink jet print head of a printing apparatus is disclosed. The ink jet print head includes a plurality of ink cells for containing ink, Each ink cell has a nozzle and a heating element. The method includes calculating an index of each nozzle which will jet ink in an array, corresponding indices of all nozzles which will jet ink in the array to heat-accumulation weightings according to a heat-accumulation weighting table, using the calculation module to calculate a total weight of the array using the heat-accumulation weightings of all the nozzles which will jet ink in the array, and using a driving module to provide energy to heating elements corresponding to the nozzles which will jet ink according to the total weight of the array.