Method and apparatus for printhead maintenance
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsLi Qian, Francisco Guerrero Carvajal, Secundino Vicente Vicente
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Abstract
In an example, there is provided a method and apparatus for generating a print output file, the method comprising receiving at least one image to be printed, determining a printing area corresponding to a region containing the at least one image to be printed and a non-printing area corresponding to a remaining region, providing a spit-on-page dot pattern limited to the non-printing area, and generating the print output file comprising the dot pattern and the at least one image.
Claims19
A method of a system comprising a hardware processor, comprising:
- receiving at least one image to be printed;
- determining a printing area corresponding to a region containing the at least one image to be printed and a non-printing area corresponding to a remaining region, wherein the at least one image is not to be printed in the non-printing area;
- providing a first layer comprising a spit-on-page dot pattern for the non-printing area, the spit-on-page dot pattern being for a spit-on-page operation;
- providing a second layer comprising the at least one image for the printing area;
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- generating a print output file comprising the spit-on-page dot pattern and the at least one image, wherein the spit-on-page dot pattern of the first layer covers an entire output region of the print output file, wherein the generating of the print output file comprises compositing the first and second layers wherein the second layer overlies the first layer, and wherein the spit-on-page operation based on the print output file limits a spitting of spit-on-page dots according to the spit-on-page dot pattern to the non-printing area.
A device to control a printing process, the device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
- receive at least one image to be printed;
- determine a printing area corresponding to a region containing the at least one image to be printed and a non-printing area corresponding to a remaining region, wherein the at least one image is not to be printed in the non-printing area;
- provide a first layer comprising a spit-on-page dot pattern for the non-printed area, the spit-on-page dot pattern being for a spit-on-page operation;
- provide a second layer comprising the at least one image for the printing area;
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- generate a print output file comprising the spit-on-page dot pattern and the at least one image, wherein the spit-on-page dot pattern of the first layer covers an entire output region of the print output file, wherein the generating of the print output file comprises compositing the first and second layers wherein the second layer overlies the first layer, and wherein the spit-on-page operation based on the print output file limits a spitting of spit-on-page dots according to the spit-on-page dot pattern to the non-printing area.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a system to:
- receive at least one image to be printed;
- determine a printing area corresponding to a region containing the at least one image to be printed and a non-printing area corresponding to a remaining region, wherein the at least one image is not to be printed in the non-printing area;
- provide a first layer comprising a spit-on-page dot pattern for the non-printing area, the spit-on-page dot pattern being for a spit-on-page operation;
- provide a second layer comprising the at least one image for the printing area;
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- generate a print output file comprising the spit-on-page dot pattern and the at least one image, wherein the spit-on-page dot pattern of the first layer covers an entire output region of the print output file, wherein the generating of the print output file comprises compositing the first and second layers wherein the second layer overlies the first layer, and wherein the spit-on-page operation based on the print output file limits a spitting of spit-on-page dots according to the spit-on-page dot pattern to the non-printing area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.