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Patent US8199342 - Tailoring image data packets to properties of print heads - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsTechniques, systems, and computer program products that facilitate tailoring image data packets to properties of print heads in a printing system. Control software in the printing system remote from the print head(s) may send a query to a print head over a control channel and receive a reply include...http://www.google.com/patents/US8199342?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8199342 - Tailoring image data packets to properties of print headsAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS8199342 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 10/977,298Publication dateJun 12, 2012Filing dateOct 29, 2004Priority dateOct 29, 2004Also published asCN100483327C, CN101052943A, EP1805593A2, US20060092437, WO2006049836A2, WO2006049836A3Publication number10977298, 977298, US 8199342 B2, US 8199342B2, US-B2-8199342, US8199342 B2, US8199342B2InventorsRobert MartinOriginal AssigneeFujifilm Dimatix, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (100), Non-Patent Citations (76), Classifications (8), Legal Events (5) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetTailoring image data packets to properties of print headsUS 8199342 B2Abstract Techniques, systems, and computer program products that facilitate tailoring image data packets to properties of print heads in a printing system. Control software in the printing system remote from the print head(s) may send a query to a print head over a control channel and receive a reply include information characterizing parameters of the print head, e.g., specific configuration information or a part number. The control software may use the information characterizing the properties of the print head to look up specification details of the layout of print elements in the print head and use that information to configure image data packet generating components in the control software for the particular print head layout.
BACKGROUND This disclosure relates to systems, computer program products, and techniques for printing an image.
SUMMARY Described herein are methods and systems, including computer program products, that facilitate image printing. In one implementation, an image data packet configuration module in a control module of a printing system including one or more printing devices, e.g., print heads, queries a printing device in the system for information corresponding to properties of the printing device. The information can include specific configuration parameters for the printing device or an identifier associated with the printing device that the configuration module can use to look up the configuration parameters of the printing device. The configuration module may also receive information identifying the relationship between multiple printing devices.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a print system 100. Print system 100 includes a workpiece conveyor 105 and a printer housing 110, also referred to as a print head. Workpiece conveyor 105 produces relative motion between a series of workpieces 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145 and print head 110. In particular, workpiece conveyor 105 conveys workpieces 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145 in a direction D across a face 150 of print head 110. Workpiece conveyor 105 can include a stepper or continuous motor that moves a roller, a belt, or other element that can retain workpieces 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145 during conveyance. Workpieces 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145 can be any of a number of different substrates upon which system 100 is to print. For example, workpieces 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145 can be paper, cardboard, microelectronic devices, or foodstuffs.
The control electronics 160 can send image data to the print head 110 at high data rates to enable �just-in-time� printing of images on the workpieces as the workpieces move along the workpiece conveyor 105. In one implementation of just-in-time printing, transmission of image data to the print head 110 can serve as a trigger that causes the image data in a packet to be printed �substantially immediately� as the data arrives at the print head 110. In this implementation, the image data may not be stored on a storage component on the print head prior to printing the image data, but can be printed as the data arrives at the print head. Just-in-time printing may also refer to printing image data substantially at an instant at which the image data arrives at the print head.
In another implementation of just-in-time printing, data received at the print head is stored in one or more latches, and new or subsequent data that is being received at the print head can serve as a trigger to print the latched data. In this implementation, the data received at the print head is stored in a latch until the subsequent data arrives at the print head, and the subsequent data arriving at the print head can serve as a trigger to print the data that has been latched. The data, subsequent data, and latched data may be received and/or stored at the print head in the form of an image data packet. In one case, the subsequent data arriving at the print head is the next subsequent data. Alternatively, the subsequent data arriving at the print head is subsequent data other than the next subsequent data, such as subsequent data arriving after the next subsequent data. Because the image data is being printed at such a high-data rate, the data printed from latched data can also refer to data being printed �substantially immediately� as the data is arriving at the print head.
Control electronics 460 also includes a data pump 470. A �data pump� refers to a functional component, e.g., implemented in hardware, software, programmable logic or a combination thereof, that processes data and transmits it to one or more printing devices for printing. In one implementation, the data pump can refer to a direct memory access (DMA) device. The data pump 470 is positioned along the data communication path between the print element associations and their dedicated print image buffers in collection 465. The data pump 470 can receive and store image data from each print image buffer in collection 465. The data pump 470 is programmable by control electronics 460 to delay the communication of information from the print image buffers in collection 465 to the print element associations.
The software 515 can control transmission of image data and can send image data to the memory 505. The data pump 510 can use image data to generate an image data packet (also referred to as an �image scan line packet�) at an image data packet generator 525. Generating an image data packet may include serializing the image data packet at the image data packet generator 525. In addition to sending image data to the memory 505, the software 515 can send control data to the data pump 510. Control data may include any type of data that can be used to control the printing device 520. A control data packet can be generated from control data at the control data packet generator 545.
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