Aligning a carriage within a printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsXin-Ling Wu, Ying Fang, Wei-Fei Chang, Qiang Tang
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Abstract
A printing device (100, 200) may include a carriage (101, 201) to hold an integrated printhead (103, 203) in the printing device; a manifold latch (105, 205) to connect the integrated printhead and an ink tank connector in a locked position; and a controller (109, 209) to align the carriage within the printing device based on a level of health of the integrated printhead and a latching position of the manifold latch. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a printing method are disclosed.
Claims15
A printing device, comprising:
- a carriage to hold an integrated printhead in the printing device;
- a manifold latch to connect the integrated printhead and an ink tank connector in a locked position;
- and
- a controller to:
- align the carriage within the printing device, based on a level of health of the integrated printhead and a latching position of the manifold latch.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions executable by a processor to:
- determine a level of health of a pen body in an integrated printhead;
- and
- align a carriage, that includes the integrated printhead and a manifold latch, in a particular position within a printing device based on the determined level of health of the pen body and a latching position of the manifold latch.
A method comprising:
- determining that a door of a printing device is in an open position;
- determining a position of a manifold latch on a carriage of the printing device in response to the determination that the door is open;
- and
- aligning the carriage in a particular location within the printing device based on the determined manifold latch position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.