摘要 |
An ink jet printer transporting a print receiving medium angularly past a print head which generates a row of jet drop streams. Drops in the streams are selectively charged to either a print charge level or a catch charge level, and are subsequentlysubjected to a cyclically varying electric deflection field, normal to the row, which deflects of the drops carrying the print charge level into selected print trajectories. A static electric deflection field then separates the drops into print and catch trajectories, with the drops in the catch trajectories being intercepted by a catcher and thereby prevented from striking the print receiving medium. Drops from each jet drop stream may be deflected in a direction perpendicular to the row by the secondary field so as to be deposited at a number of positions on the print receiving medium.
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