Printing modes to print an outline and a fill area
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMarc Serra Vall, M. Isabel Borrell Bayona
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Abstract
An example of a printing system is disclosed. The example disclosed herein comprises a plurality of nozzles and a controller. The plurality of nozzles is to eject a printing agent on a substrate to print a print job. The controller is to receive the print job comprising an outline and a fill area to be printed. The controller is also to define a first subset of the plurality of nozzles as a first printing mode to print the outline. The controller is further to define a second subset of the plurality of nozzles as a second printing mode to print the fill area, wherein the second subset comprises more nozzles than the first subset. The controller is further to print the print job based on the first printing mode and the second printing mode.
Claims20
A printing system comprising:
- a plurality of nozzles to eject a printing agent on a substrate to print a print job;
- and
- a controller programmed to:
- receive the print job comprising an outline and a fill area to be printed,
- define a first subset of the plurality of nozzles as a first printing mode to print the outline,
- define a second subset of the plurality of nozzles as a second printing mode to print the fill area, wherein the second subset comprises more nozzles than the first subset, and
- operate the plurality of nozzles to print the print job, including operating the first subset of nozzles to print the outline based on the first printing mode and operating the second subset of nozzles to print the fill area within the outline based on the second printing mode.
A method comprising:
- receiving a print job comprising an outline and a fill area to be printed;
- defining a first subset of a plurality of nozzles as a first printing mode to print the outline;
- defining a second subset of the plurality of nozzles as a second printing mode to print the fill area,
- wherein the second subset comprises more nozzles than the first subset;
- and
- printing, by the plurality of nozzles, the print job based on the first printing mode and the second printing mode.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising:
- instructions to receive a print job comprising an outline and a fill area to be printed;
- instructions to define a first subset of a plurality of nozzles as a first printing mode to print the outline;
- instructions to define a second subset of the plurality of nozzles as a second printing mode to print the fill area, wherein the second subset comprises more nozzles than the first subset;
- and
- instructions to print the print job based on the first printing mode and the second printing mode by ejecting printing agent using the plurality nozzles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.