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Method and apparatus for recording information on a recording surface

US3992712A · kind A · utility

7Cited by
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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJul 3, 1974
Grant dateNov 16, 1976
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Expiry dateJul 3, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J2/10
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A plurality of magnetic liquid streams is simultaneously excited to produce a plurality of streams of magnetic droplets of substantially uniform spacing and substantially uniform velocity. Each of the droplets in each of the streams passes over a separate selector for each stream to determine whether the droplet will be utilized for printing on a paper. A predetermined number of the droplets of each of the streams is subjected to a time periodic deflection to cause a first half of the predetermined number of droplets, which have been selected for printing by the selectors, to engage a paper in a first line and a second half to engage the paper in a second line. A ramp voltage deflection is separately applied to the predetermined number of droplets of each stream subjected to each half of the time periodic deflection to cause the print lines of the droplets to be orthogonal to the direction of movement of the paper.

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