Regulating deposition characteristics
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMauricio Seras Franzoso, Andreas Muller, Antonio Gracia Verdugo
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Abstract
A method for regulating a deposition characteristic of a rendering material in a rendering apparatus includes determining a status of material deposition structure, and adjusting a physical attribute of the material deposition structure.
Claims19
A method for regulating a deposition characteristic of a rendering material in a rendering apparatus, the method comprising:
- determining a status of a material deposition structure within the rendering apparatus that deposits the rendering material;
- adjusting a physical attribute of the material deposition structure that deposits the rendering material;
- and
- provoking formation of a transitory film on the material deposition structure by activating the material deposition structure, whereby to deposit rendering material.
A rendering apparatus comprising a processor and a material deposition structure, the processor to:
- determine a current status of a material deposition structure using data representing previous use thereof;
- trigger conditioning of the material deposition structure to adjust a physical attribute thereof;
- and
- execute deposition of rendering material as a part of a service routine for the material deposition structure to provoke formation of a transitory layer over a portion of a heating element of the material deposition structure.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a rendering apparatus for provoking formation of a transitory film on a heating element of a nozzle structure in a print head of the rendering apparatus, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- determine whether the nozzle structure has been fired more than a threshold number of times in previous rendering operations;
- determine whether the nozzle structure is to be used in a subsequent rendering operation;
- execute an increased servicing routine of the nozzle structure;
- and
- activate the nozzle structure in the servicing station whereby to provoke formation of the transitory film on the heating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.