A system for selectively shifting the phase of drop charging along the array of ink jets of a continuous ink jet printer by producing a replicate signal of the drop stimulation signal; selectively shifting the phase of the replicate signal to provide a phase control signal; synchronizing a media feed tachometer signal to the phase control signal to produce a print enable signal; and controlling address of the charge electrodes with the print enable signal. The system further includes a selection...

The free end of an arm rotatable with one hinge member contains a roller receiving cavity which opens to an arcuate friction layer on the other hinge member which is disposed about the axis of relative rotation of the hinge members. A spring biased double faced wedging member is movable into and out of the center of the cavity and each face of the member is respective to a semi-cylindrical roller retention surface of the cavity. One face is more steeply sloped than the other. When the hinge memb...

A color printing system for color-printing images or characters on a surface of a writing sheet. The color printing system includes a plurality of printing heads which are successively arranged in parallel to each other and a feeding device for moving the writing sheet in a direction perpendicular to the head-reciprocating directions. Each of the printing heads linearly reciprocates so as to go and return in directions along the surface of the writing sheet for the color printing and has a plura...

An ink-jet recording apparatus including an ink-jet recording head; two upstream-side rollers which feed a recording sheet to the head in a downstream direction along a sheet-feed path; two downstream-side rollers which feed the sheet from the head; at least one rotating device which rotates, in a forward direction corresponding to the downward direction, the upstream-side and downstream-side rollers, and rotates, in a backward direction corresponding to an upstream direction opposite to the dow...

A printer has a motor and an encoder. The encoder opposes a scale having marks or slits at predetermined intervals. Staggered detectors detect positions of the marks or slits, and output detection signals. Signal generators output signals with respective frequencies based on the various detectors. A controller detects the rotational position and speed of the motor the signals output from the signal generators, and controls the rotational speed of the motor by PID control on the basis of the posi...

The recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs dot-recording on the recording material through a plurality of recording elements arranged on the recording head; a mechanism to move the recording head in a main scan direction to perform recording; and a transport mechanism to feed the recording material in a sub-scan direction perpendicular to the main scan direction after each main scan operation. The transport mechanism is formed of a combination of driving elements including a...

In a printing system, feature information of a printing medium set on a printer is acquired from the printer. Information associated with the type of the printing medium is input, and the information associated with the type of the printing medium is registered in connection with the acquired feature information of the printing medium. Thus, an environment is provided which allows a user to make registration of additional information associated with a particular printing medium thereby making it...

An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag force applicator located proximate to and defining a nip with the intermediate transfer member, the drag force applicator being configured for applying a drag force to the reverse side of the print medium in the nip.

This invention is intended to perform a mounting/dismounting or replacement of a print head and ink tank mounted on the carriage without contaminating a print medium including a tray when performing an ink jet printing using the tray. For this purpose, the tray guide that supports the tray so that it can be fed is removably mounted to the printing apparatus. Whether this tray guide is mounted to the printing apparatus is detected by the tray guide sensor. According to a result of detection by th...

A reference or standard pulse number, i.e., a standard number of pulses to be applied to a feeding motor to rotate a feeding roller and thereby feed a recording sheet, is set at Step S21. Subsequently, a feeding amount, A, needed by a recording head is calculated at Step S22, and a feeding amount, B, corresponding to an effective diameter of the feeding roller and the standard pulse number, is calculated at Step S23. Then, a differential pulse number to compensate for the difference between the ...