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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2002
Toshimori Miyakoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuichi Murakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshimori Miyakoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuichi Murakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An increase in variation in resistance value resulting from a reduction in thickness of heaters is dealt with without increasing the manufacture costs of the print head, by allowing smaller ink droplets to be efficiently ejected. A setting for a pulse voltage essentially varied depending on the ejection threshold energy of the head is employed so that optimum drive power conditions can be reasonably set over a range of varying resistance values resulting from differences among manufactured print heads. This provides a print head and a printing apparatus which can deal with an increase in differences among manufactured heads by allowing smaller ink droplets to be efficiently ejected without reducing the yield of manufactured print heads.