Patent ID: 6474793
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
Method for printing essentially simultaneously a set of pixels lying on different image lines on a substrate from a single series of ink droplets using an ink jet printer having at least one ink jet nozzle, the method comprising the steps of:allocating a group of ink droplets from the single series to each of the pixels to be printed essentially simultaneously, and depositing ink droplets from the groups of ink droplets in the pixels concerned or intercepting the ink droplets, depending on the number of ink droplets required for a pixel, wherein at least one of the pixels from the set of pixels is printed by more than one ink droplet from the single series, wherein the ink droplets of each group which are sent to a pixel are distributed essentially homogeneously over the single series, and wherein the ink droplets of different groups are also distributed essentially homogenously over the single series.