Abstract: In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a surface of a print carrier is coated with a layer which is one of ink-repelling and ink-attracting. In the structuring process, ink-attracting regions and ink-repelling regions are generated. Ink that adheres to the ink-attracting regions and that is not absorbed by the ink-repelling regions is applied on the surface. The applied ink is transferred onto the carrier material. Before a new structure process on the same surface of the print carrier, the surface is cleaned and recoated with said layer. Before the application of said layer, a wetting-aiding substance is applied with a molecular layer thickness. A surfactant with hydrophilic molecule sections is used as the wetting-aiding substance.

Abstract: In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a surface of a print carrier is coated with a layer which is one of ink-repelling and ink-attracting. In the structuring process, ink-attracting regions and ink-repelling regions are generated. Ink that adheres to the ink-attracting regions and that is not absorbed by the ink-repelling regions is applied on the surface. The applied ink is transferred onto the carrier material. Before a new structure process on the same surface of the print carrier, the surface is cleaned and recoated with said layer. Before the application of said layer, a wetting-aiding substance is applied with a molecular layer thickness. A surfactant with hydrophilic molecule sections is used as the wetting-aiding substance.

Abstract: A character generator for a printer or copier which illuminates a surface of a photoconductor is provided with a cooling device, wherein a line of LEDs is mounted on a bearing surface of a hollow, thin walled profile that runs along the direction of the LED row. The hollow interior is filled with a liquid. On the other side of the hollow profile from the row of LEDs is a heat dissipating structure, such as a finned heat sink.

Abstract: A sandwich ink-jet print head constructed in planar technology is welded into a dual in-line plug-in package which has on its top side a receiving opening for the sandwich ink-jet head and on its underside a contacting and balancing opening which can be sealed so as to be tight with respect to ink, as well as an ink inlet orifice for supplying the printing fluid. After insertion of the sandwich ink-jet head into the dual in-line package, the sandwich ink-jet head is electrically balanced via the contacting and balancing opening, to be precise by means of a resistor array arranged on the sandwich ink-jet head. As a result of the arrangement in a dual in-line package, the ink-jet print head can be mounted so as to be exchangeable in a mounting on the printer carriage. The ink-jet print head is connected to the ink supply system of the printer via a resilient adaptor.

Abstract: A printing head for an ink jet printer has a plurality of ink channels formed as hollow tubes, each with a hollow cylindrical piezoelectric transducer, which tubes are interconnected to form a piezoelectric tube group. The piezoelectric tube group is assembled with a front housing part which supports the front end of the tube group, and a housing cap bearing electrical contacts engaging the piezoelectric tube elements is assembled in place, after which the interior is filled with a casting resin.

Abstract: A mosaic ink recorder having a number of outlet nozzles in a nozzle plate for discharging ink droplets on a recording media has a screen with apertures therein which are disposed in groups in registry with the outlet nozzles, the apertures in the screen having a diameter which is substantially less than the diameter of the outlet nozzles. The apertures increase the pressure necessary to break the meniscus of the ink remaining in a channel after discharge of a droplet by a ratio approximately equal to the ratio of the diameter of the aperture to the diameter of the nozzle. The recording head is thus rendered substantially less sensitive to vibration and other disturbances which may otherwise break the meniscus and permit ink to flow in a channel at undesired times. The screen may be a separately attachable element or may be integrated with the body of the recording head.

Abstract: A printing head for an ink mosaic printing device is provided with a plurality of diagonally extending ink ducts having downstream ends converging at a printing location on the printing head to form a printing grid pattern. The downstream leading ends of the ducts are formed with wedge-shaped tapered portions, each having a leading edge wall carrying a discharge orifice for ink droplets. By virtue of this construction of the ink ducts, more ink ducts may be used to form the grid pattern and the various discharge orifices may be placed closer to one another to provide higher printing resolution.

Abstract: An arrangement for optoelectrically scanning a master employs a scanning device having a plurality of scanning elements which simultaneously scan a plurality of parallel lines of a row, the master being displaced at right angles to the scanning direction. The scanning device, like a mosaic printing head, is disposed on a printing carriage of a printing station which moves along a platen and the master to be scanned can be placed around the platen which displaces the master as scanning takes place. In one embodiment the scanning device includes scanning elements which are disposed like the printing elements of a mosaic printing head and the scanned points communicate with the scanning elements through light tunnels, which tunnels may include light guides. In another embodiment, the scanning device includes a lens which focuses the scan points on the scanning elements.

Abstract: A heating device for recording heads of ink mosaic recorders, for maintaining the ink therefrom at an optimum temperature at time of discharge from the head. Means are provided for supplying heat to the head directly at the discharge orifices thereof. The device is further provided with control means, including temperature sensing means, for maintaining the temperature of the ink constant. Means are also provided for preventing operation of the recording head unless the ink is at its nominal operating temperature.

Abstract: A nozzle plate for a mosaic printing unit, which has a plurality of outlet openings arranged in a mosaic pattern with an ink channel for each outlet opening extending away from the outlet opening in a straight line, characterized by the nozzle plate having a thickness of approximately 100.mu. and having a plurality of nozzle openings aligned with the outlet openings of the mosaic printer with each nozzle opening being provided with an inlet zone facing the outlet opening of the mosaic printer for centering the recording fluid of the respective ink channels with the nozzle opening and an acceleration zone of a reduced cross-section concentrically arranged to the ink inlet zone so that the ink droplets are expelled from the nozzle openings of the nozzle plate are aligned according to a desired direction of flight. The nozzle opening in the nozzle plate can be formed by concentric cylindrical portions or by a conical bore which has a converging taper extending from the inlet zone to the acceleration zone.

Abstract: A piezoelectrically operated printer head for an ink-jet printing unit characterized by the printer head having a body with a plurality of printing jets arranged in a pattern at a printing location, each printing jet comprising an individual passage extending through the body from an orifice at the printing location to a source of printing liquid. Each passage has a first segment of its length surrounded by a cylindrical piezoelectric drive so that a drop of the printing liquid is ejected from the jet by a piezoelectric contraction of the drive element and each of the passages has a second segment of its length spacing the first segment from the respective orifice. The second segments of the passages are disposed in the body of the printer head to extend away from the pattern of orifices at the printing location in a radiating pattern without any kinks therein.

Abstract: Ink supply system for supplying a stream of ink from an ink reservoir to a piezoelectrically operated printing jet of an ink jet printer. The system includes a conduit interconnecting the reservoir to the printing jet in which is mounted a capillary filter. The conduit includes an elastic portion on the downstream side of the capillary filter and a ventable air receiver on the upstream side thereof.

Abstract: A device for supplying ink to a mosaic printer unit having several printing ink jets provided in a printer head characterized by the device having a common distributor unit to supply ink to each of the printing ink jets attached on the printer head and having a cavity receiving the printing ink. To dampen hydraulic pressure fluctuations or vibrations in the ink received in the cavity, the cavity in the neighborhood of its highest point has an elastic wall member which may be either a diaphragm closing an opening in the cavity, or an elastic tube whose interior is in communication with the atmosphere.

Abstract: A protective and cleaning combination shield and wiper for ink jet recording device writing heads is provided which consists of a shield member mounted on the writing head and movable between a blocking position in front of the orifices of the writing head and an operating position spaced from and clear of the orifices. The shield is equipped with a resilient wiping arm which wipes across the face of the writing head during movement between the positions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piezoelectric drive element for cast printer heads used in ink-operated mosaic printer units in which printing liquid is ejected droplet fashion by a mechanism of piezoelectric contraction of the cylindrical drive elements which surround the ink passages, said drive element comprising a plurality of drive electrodes in furtherance of the proposed operation in accordance with the teachings of this invention.