GIS puritiTM Operating System
The GIS puritiTM Operating System comprises:-
· Windows DLL interface
· GIS Print Manager Board electronics & firmware
· GIS Head Personality Boards to drive specific models of printheads
The puritiTM OS is designed for customers wishing to develop their own customer datapath controllers and incorporate their own or preferred RIP technology. puritiTM is only suitable for established and experienced inkjet players - it is illustrated in the schematic below.
GIS Print Manager Boards
The Print Manager Board (PMB) is the core hardware component of the GIS Operating System. It enables a standard PC to drive up to 8 industrial inkjet printheads via USB 2.0 in single pass, XY scanning and custom systems. Each PMB will drive any mixture of supported printheads via a dedicated high speed (200Mb/s) channel along standard CAT6a STP cables (up to 15m). The PMB provides read and write access to all available OEM printhead settings including temperature control, voltage and waveform settings, binary and greyscale calibration.
GIS offers two Print Manager Boards – the PMB-C8 (to drive up to 8 printheads) and the PMB-C2 (to drive up to two printheads).
- PMBs are available cased or uncased and multiple PMBs can be stacked to drive large arrays of printheads
- A Master/Slave architecture supports sharing of encoder and print go signals via industrial VME backplane or low cost IDC connector
- The Advanced Encoder Manager System (AEMS) supports industry standard encoders and product detect/print go signals and provides per-printhead encoder divide and sub-pixel adjust, delivering complete drop placement control and repeatability
- Each printhead is driven by a dedicated high speed channel capable of delivering print data on demand in the most demanding of applications. High speed on-board RAM provides ample buffering for XY scanning and single pass systems, allowing the specialised software drivers to deliver continuous static or variable data streams to the printheads
- The PMB has the power to drive multiple printhead technologies simultaneously off the same system and to drive printheads at different resolutions
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PMB-C8 |
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PMB-C2 datasheet |
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PMB-C8 datasheet |
Head Personality Boards
GIS Head Personality Boards are designed to provide communications between specific printheads and the GIS Print Manager Boards (PMB-C8/PMB-C2). They enable access to all standard printhead settings and are specifically designed for use with GIS software products.
GIS supports a wide range of printheads including FUJIFILM Dimatix, Konica Minolta, Kyocera and Xaar. The capability to drive new printheads is being developed all the time, so if you do not find information on the web site about the printhead you need, please contact us to discuss.
For more information on GIS Head Personality Boards please see Printheads