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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul A. Hoisington, Norwich, VT (US);
Marc A. Torrey, Amstelveen, NL;
Assignee:
Spectra, Inc., Lebanon, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ;
Abstract
During a print cycle, fire pulses of different profiles are delivered to ink-jets of a print head. Selected ones of the ink-jets are enabled in coordination with the occurrence of selected ones of the fire pulses to control a characteristic of drops that are jetted by the respective ink-jets.