Printhead Driver Circuit - Epson Stylus COLOR 880 Service Manual

EPSON Stylus COLOR 880

2.2.2.1 Printhead Driver Circuit

The printhead driver circuit consists of the following two components:
Common driver IC (IC10: E09A14RA) directly attached to the
C378MAIN board.
Nozzle selector IC (Sharp IR2C95F or EPSON SED6125T0A) on the
head board.
The common driver (IC10: E09A14RA) generates a reference drive waveform
according to the output signals from the C378MAIN board. The reference drive
waveform is amplified by the transistors Q3 and Q4 and then transferred to the
nozzle selector IC on the head board. Print data is converted to serial data by
the ASIC (IC25 E01A13OA) and then sent to the nozzle selector IC on the
head board. Based on the serial data, the nozzle selector IC determines the
nozzles to be actuated. The selected nozzles are driven by the drive
waveforms produced by the common driver. See Figure 2-17 for the printhead
driver circuit block diagram.
Head common driver circuit
The reference head drive waveform is produced in the common driver
(IC10: E09A14RA) based on the following 12 signal lines output from the
ASIC (IC25 E01A13OA); A0-A4, CLK1, CLK2, RST, FLOOR, DATA,
DCLK, and E.
By the DATA signal output from the ASIC (IC25 E01A13OA), the original
data for the head drive waveform is written in the memory in the IC10. The
addresses for the written data are determined by the A0 - A4 signals, and,
of among, data used to determine the waveform angles is selected. Then,
setting the selected data, producing trapezoid waveform value, and
canceling the data are performed by the rising edges of the CLK1 and
CLK2 signals.
Head nozzle selector circuit
Printing data is converted into serial data by the ASIC (IC25 E01A13OA).
Then the converted data is allocated to the six rows, the number of the
head nozzle rows, to be transferred to the nozzle selector (Sharp
IR2C95F) through the six signal lines (HS01 to HS06). Data transmission
from the ASIC (IC25 E01A13OA) to the nozzle selector synchronizes with
the LAT signal and SCK clock signal. Referring to the transferred data,
nozzles to be activated are selected, and the PZTs of the selected nozzles
are driven by the drive waveform output from the head common driver.
Operating Principles Electrical Circuit Operating Principles
Figure 2-17. Printhead Driver Circuit
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