Patent ID: 7270712

Claim:
A microdeposition system comprising: a microdeposition head including a plurality of nozzles, each nozzle operable to deposit droplets of a fluid manufacturing material to define features on a substrate; a positioning device controlling a relative position of said microdeposition head to the substrate; and a controller including a positioning module, a nozzle firing module, and a nozzle waveform module, said positioning module generating position control signals for said positioning device, said nozzle firing module selectively generating nozzle firing commands for each of said nozzles, and said nozzle waveform module producing nozzle firing waveforms independently for each of said nozzles, wherein a corresponding one of said nozzle firing waveforms is applied to one of said nozzles when a corresponding one of said nozzle firing commands is issued, and wherein said nozzle firing waveforms can simultaneously be produced in a variety of shapes.