Patent ID: 8540350

Claim:
A continuous inkjet printer, comprising: a print head which includes multiple stimulation chambers aligned along an alignment axis for said chambers; a flat diaphragm whose parts form a wall of each of the stimulation chambers; multiple nozzles each respectively hydraulically connected to one of the stimulation chambers; at least one charge electrode and a deflection electrode located downstream of the nozzles; multiple electro-mechanical actuators, each respectively mechanically linked to each of the parts of the diaphragm forming a wall of each of the stimulation chambers; multiple stimulation lines each configured to transmit respective stimulation pulses to each of the various actuators; a device for processing data to be printed which receives a signal carrying the data to be printed and which supplies stimulation pulses, as a function of said data to be printed, to the stimulation lines; and means for compensating for mechanical crosstalk between adjacent chambers, said means for compensating being configured to transmit, simultaneously with transmission to a stimulated chamber of a stimulation pulse over a simulation line, a pulse for compensating for mechanical crosstalk on each of a plurality of lines which supply an actuator for the chamber adjacent to the stimulated chamber, the compensating means being adapted to transmit one of a pulse for compensating for crosstalk which peak amplitude is between 0.05 hundredths and 0.5 hundredths of a peak voltage value of the stimulation pulse, wherein gaps between consecutive nozzles are between 2500 and 625 μm; a pulse for compensating for crosstalk which peak amplitude is between 0.1 hundredths and 5 hundredths of a peak voltage value of the stimulation pulse, wherein gaps between consecutive nozzles are between 830 and 310 μm; a pulse for compensating for crosstalk which peak amplitude is between 1 hundredth and 20 hundredths of a peak voltage value of the stimulation pulse, wherein gaps between consecutive nozzles are between 360 and 190 μm; and a pulse for compensating for crosstalk which peak amplitude is between 4 hundredths and 30 hundredths of a peak voltage value of the stimulation pulse, wherein gaps between consecutive nozzles are between 300 and 200 μm.