US 7,588,303 B2
Head driving device, inkjet printer comprising the same, and data processing method thereof
Kyoung-sik Park, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Eun-bong Han, Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/519,782.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0089495 (KR), filed on Sep. 26, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0070104 A1, Mar. 29, 2007
Int. Cl. B41J 2/205 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—12  [347/15] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head driving device of an inkjet printer, comprising:
a nozzle driving unit for turning at least one of on and off a plurality of thermal elements that correspond to a plurality of nozzles and heat ink discharged from the plurality of nozzles;
a data processing unit for processing printing data and outputting a nozzle select signal corresponding to an image to the nozzle driving unit; and
a head logic unit for receiving the printing data externally, dividing the printing data of at least one address group into a plurality of data groups, transmitting the divided plurality of data groups to the data processing unit via different data buses corresponding to the divided plurality of data groups, respectively, and controlling the data processing unit to process the divided printing data.