Real-Time Jet Failure Detection of Inkjet Heads with 1024 Ejectors
- Authors
- Kwon, Kye- Si; Yu, Jaeryul; Thanh Huy Phung
- Issue Date
- Sep-2017
- Publisher
- Society for Imaging Science and Technology
- Keywords
- inkjet
- Citation
- Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, v.61, no.5
- Journal Title
- Journal of Imaging Science and Technology
- Volume
- 61
- Number
- 5
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/7241
- DOI
- 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2017.61.5.050401
- ISSN
- 1062-3701
1943-3522
- Abstract
- Recently, inkjet-printing industry demands high-speed and single-pass printing that requires simultaneous jetting of a large number of ejectors. As a result, the jetting reliability has become an important issue in most industrial inkjet-printing applications. To ensure the jetting reliability, a real-time monitoring of the jetting status is needed. Since the monitoring process should not interrupt the printing process, the monitoring time for all of the nozzles should be less than 1 second. For this purpose, the authors developed two module prototypes to monitor the commercial inkjet heads with 1024 nozzles: (1) a head driver with an internal self-sensing capability; (2) an external monitoring module that can be used for third-party drivers. To deal with a large number of nozzles effectively, the authors are proposing a parallel sensing scheme that can be used to monitor multi-head jetting. Lastly, the authors verified our monitoring scheme by using a drop visualization system for a comparison of the monitoring results with the droplet jetting images. (c) 2017 Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
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