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US 10,093,109 B2Granted
Printing system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEduardo Amela Conesa, Jaime Fernandez, Jacint Humet, Marc Serra
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Abstract
A printing method and system include a printhead configured to eject a fixer fluid. A controller is operatively connected to the printhead and configured to control the printhead so as to apply the fixer fluid to a print area in a pattern to form cells having a predetermined area without the fixer fluid.
Claims20
A printing method, comprising:
- applying, with a first printhead, a fixer fluid to a print area to form a plurality of adjoining cells having shared solid borders of fixer fluid;
- and
- applying, with a second printhead, ink to the print area,
- each of the cells having a predetermined area therewithin without the fixer fluid, the predetermined area of each cell isolated from other adjoining cells by the shared solid borders of fixer fluid, and the shared solid borders of fixer fluid to contain ink within the predetermined area of a respective cell.
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A printing system, comprising:
- a first printhead to eject a fixer fluid;
- a second printhead to eject ink;
- and
- a controller operatively connected to the first printhead and the second printhead, the controller to:
- control the first printhead to apply the fixer fluid to a print area to form a plurality of adjoining cells having shared solid borders of fixer fluid to isolate a predetermined area within each cell from other adjoining cells of the print area by the shared solid borders of fixer fluid;
- and
- control the second printhead to apply the ink to the print area,
- the predetermined area of each cell being without the fixer fluid, and the shared solid borders of fixer fluid to contain ink within the predetermined area of a respective cell.
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A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a print device to:
- apply, with a first printhead, a fixer fluid to a print area to form a plurality of adjoining cells each having a predetermined area therewithin without the fixer fluid;
- and
- apply, with a second printhead, ink to the print area,
- the adjoining cells having shared solid borders of fixer fluid, the predetermined area of each cell isolated from other adjoining cells by the shared solid borders of fixer fluid, and the shared solid borders of fixer fluid to contain ink within the predetermined area of a respective cell.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.