Electronic method and device for adjustment of jet direction in an inkjet apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An improved ink jet recording method comprises the steps producing at least one ink jet which disintegrates into a series of minute drops, selectively charging the drops to determine whether an individual drop in a, recording mode, is intended to travel along a recording path to impinge onto a predetermined location on an ink receiving surface or is prevented to produce a record on said surface, deflecting each charged drop by an electric deflecting field by an amount depending on the charge of the drop, and effecting relative transverse motion between the path of the record producing drops and the record surface, determining any deviation between said predetermined location and an actual …