Inkjet recording method

• US 6,902,248 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2003
• Issued: 06/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koguchi, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Meier, Stephen D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Ly T
• Application Number:
  US10/436,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 347/12, 347/2, 347/107, 347/14, 347/19, 347/105, 347/106
• US Class Current: 347/12
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4071 Printing on disk-shaped media, e.g. CDs

Abstract

An inkjet recording method uses a line-array inkjet head, sets different ink ejection frequencies for respective ink ejection holes desposed in array and ejects ink onto a plate-shaped recording medium at the different ink ejection frequencies from the ink ejection holes to perform recording.

Claims

1. An inkjet recording method using a line-array inkjet head, comprising:

setting ink ejection frequencies different for respective ink ejection holes disposed in array; and

ejecting inks onto a plate-shaped recording medium at the different ink ejection frequencies from the ink ejection holes to perform recording,

wherein when performing the recording by ejecting the ink from each of the ink ejection holes, a recording dot size differs for each of the ink ejection holes.

2. An inkjet recording method according to claim 1, wherein:

the line-array inkjet head and the recording medium are relatively rotated about a straight line, as an axis of rotation, passing through one point on a straight line extending inclusively of the line-array, which is perpendicular to the recording medium; and

the recording is performed by ejecting an ink from each of the ink ejection holes at the ink ejection frequency substantially proportional to a relative peripheral rotating speed in a position of each of the ink ejection holes.

3. An inkjet recording method according to claim 2, wherein the ink ejection frequency at which the ink is ejected from each of the ink ejection holes is changed in accordance with a content of the recording.

4. An inkjet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the ink ejection frequency at which the ink is ejected from each of the ink ejection holes is changed in accordance with a content of the recording.

5. An inkjet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the ink ejection frequency at which the ink is ejected from each of the ink ejection holes is changed in accordance with a content of the recording.

6. An inkjet recording method using a line-array inkjet head, comprising:

setting ink ejection frequencies different for respective ink ejection holes disposed in an array; and

ejecting inks onto a plate-shaped recording medium at the different ink ejection frequencies from the ink ejection holes to perform recording, wherein;

the line-array inkjet head and the recording medium are relatively rotated about a straight line, as an axis of rotation, passing through one point on a straight line extending inclusively of the line-array, which is perpendicular to the recording medium,

the recording is performed by ejecting an ink from each of the ink ejection holes at the ink ejection frequency substantially proportional to a relative peripheral rotating speed in a position of each of the ink ejection holes,

when performing the recording by ejecting the ink from each of the ink ejection holes, a recording dot size differs for each of the ink ejection holes, and

the recording dot size is substantially proportional to the relative peripheral rotating speed in the position of each of the ink ejection holes.

7. An inkjet recording method according to claim 6, wherein the ink ejection frequency at which the ink is ejected from each of the ink ejection holes is changed in accordance with a content of the recording.

8. An inkjet printer printing on a recording medium using a line-array inkjet head, comprising:

the ink jet head with a plurality of nozzles disposed in an array;

a plate-shaped recording medium receiving ink drops ejected from said plurality of nozzles; and

a controller controlling ejection frequencies for the nozzles,

wherein the ejection frequency for said ejection nozzles differ depending on a relative peripheral rotating speed in a position of each of said plurality of ejection nozzles, and

wherein when performing the recording by ejecting the ink from each of the ink ejection holes, a recording dot size differs for each of the ink ejection holes.

9. The inkjet printer according to claim 8, wherein the recording dot size is substantially proportional to the relative peripheral rotating speed in the position of each of the ink ejection holes.

10. The inkjet printer according to claim 8, wherein larger dots are produced at outer peripheral portion of the recording medium, and wherein the dot size changes in accordance with the peripheral speed of the recording medium.

11. The inkjet printer according to claim 10, wherein the recording medium is a circular disk rotated at a predetermined rotational frequency.

12. The inkjet printer according to claim 11, wherein the controller selects nozzles from the array of nozzles, to be used for printing, and changes pitches between nozzles.