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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Graham D Martin, Sawston, GB;
Videojet Technologies, Inc., Wood Dale, IL (US);
Abstract
In a first aspect, in a continuous stream ink jet printing system generating a plurality of streams of ink droplets, a chosen number of droplets of each stream is less than all of the droplets of the stream. A controller of the printing system is arranged to consider for printing from among a number of the droplets of each stream greater than the chosen number with the proviso that the resultant selection made observes this constraint. In second and third aspects, the controller of the printing system is arranged to create a set of droplet print positions ideal for representing an image to be printed, which set is permitted to include print positions offset from print positions of a nominal matrix, at speeds of operation less than the predetermined speed. The controller compares the positions at which droplets are deposited at the lower speed with the set of ideal positions. The controller decides which droplets to print in dependence on the comparison.