A structure of a printhead for raising its product acceptance rate and improving its quality is provided. The structure of a printhead includes a base layer, a pattern layer disposed on the base layer, a channel barrier layer having a dry film, an ink channel, a flow channel and plural ink cavities on the pattern layer, and a nozzle plate adhered to the dry film of the channel barrier layer by thermal compression. The pattern layer further includes a flow pattern and a base pattern surrounding a...

The present invention provides an ink ejection type printhead having a plurality of ink ejection devices and a central axis, the ink ejection devices configured to eject ink generally parallel to the axis and arranged about the axis and arranged in a series of groups, each of the groups generally extending along non parallel lines .

A method and apparatus for a universal printhead is disclosed that functions independently of the diameter of a charge receiving dielectric drum, while optimizing print quality. The printhead includes two sets of electrodes mutually separated by a dielectric. Each of the electrodes from the first layer crosses each of the electrodes from the second layer forming a plurality of charge generating sites. The charge generating sites are generally disposed in only two rows.

An integrated printhead package for acoustic ink printing includes a plurality of layers. Each of the layers is stacked against one of the other layers. A reservoir is defined within the layers and contains a first fluid. One of the layers forms a plate for covering an open side of the reservoir. The plate has apertures for passing the first fluid from the reservoir to an exterior area. A passage, formed by at least one of the stacked layers, communicates with the reservoir and the exterior area...

A thermal printhead includes a plurality of heating elements (6) heated by a head voltage for printing on a recording paper, and a plurality of drive IC's (3) powered by a logic voltage for driving the heating elements (6). The printing is performed at whatever value of the head voltage within a range from 2.7 volts through 8.5 volts. Further, the drive IC's (3) operate at whatever value of the logic voltage within a range from 2.7 volts through 5.5 volts.

A printhead module includes a printhead body, a nozzle plate and one or more piezoelectric actuators. The printhead body includes one or more pumping chambers, where each pumping chamber includes a receiving end to receive a printing liquid from a printing liquid supply and an ejecting end for ejecting the printing liquid from the pumping chamber. The nozzle plate includes one or more nozzles formed through the nozzle plate. Each nozzle can be in fluid communication with a pumping chamber and re...

The present invention relates to a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly comprises an ink supply module for supplying at least one ink. There is also provided a body defining at least one ink channel. In use, the body interfaces with the ink supply module so that a respective ink is supplied from the ink supply module to a corresponding channel. The printhead assembly also comprises a printhead which, in turn, comprises at least one set of ink inlets. In use, the printhead interfaces with t...

A printhead controller controls printing of a page by at least one printhead. The printhead controller is connected, in use, via a data communications link to a printer controller for receiving data, in a compressed format relating to the page to be printed, the data including a page description comprising a bi-level black layer and a contone color layer. The printhead controller includes a first decoder for expanding compressed data relating to the bi-level black layer and a second decoder for ...

The gate-width ratio between an NMOS transistor (1) and PMOS transistors (2, 3) constructing an initial inverter stage of a voltage converting circuit is set in such a manner that the threshold voltage of the initial inverter becomes a voltage at which an inversion is possible, this voltage being less than one-half the power-supply voltage (VHT) of the voltage converting circuit and, moreover, less than the power-supply voltage (Vdd) of a logic circuit.

A modular printhead is disclosed having the ability to separate, leaving a first collection of predetermined layers relatively permanently affixed to a print engine while a second collection of predetermined layers resides in a relatively disposable component thereof. The modular printhead includes a first printhead component having at least a first electrode and a second electrode. There is additionally a second component of the printhead. The second component can have a third electrode. The fi...