Configuring printer operation using colorant information on colorant units
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPeter Morovic, Jan Morovic
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Abstract
A printer apparatus comprises one or more ports (2011 to 201M) for receiving one or more colorant units (INK1 to INKN), and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to determine which one or more colorant units (INK1 to INKN) have been loaded into the printer apparatus. The processing unit is adapted to retrieve colorant information from each loaded colorant unit (INK1 to INKN), and determine an ink-set configuration using the colorant information retrieved from each loaded colorant unit (INK1 to INKN). Operation of the printer apparatus is configured according to the determined colorant-set configuration.
Claims20
A container to store information retrieved by a rendering apparatus for identifying a characteristic of content contained in the container, wherein the information:
- allows the rendering apparatus to determine:
- hardware resources of the rendering apparatus to be used;
- and
- a printing pipeline to be used;
- and
- provides data relating to a constituent part that each content plays in an overall content-set configuration for the rendering apparatus.
A system comprising an ink cartridge to store colorant and electronic information retrieved by a rendering apparatus for identifying characteristics of colorants contained in colorant units, wherein the information:
- allows the rendering apparatus to determine:
- hardware resources of the rendering apparatus to be used with the colorants;
- a printing pipeline to be used;
- and
- a new printer driver to download;
- and
- provides data relating to a constituent part that each colorant plays in an overall colorant-set configuration for the rendering apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.