Printing system for media with non-uniform thickness
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsThomas L. Schwartz, David Cavalieri, Horia Neamtu
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Abstract
A printing system for printing on sheets of media having a non-uniform thickness profile. A user interface is controlled to instruct the operator to load a media tray with a stack of media having a specified pattern of media orientations. A media transport system picks sequential sheets of media from the media tray. A front end supplies sequential image data having orientations in accordance with the specified pattern of media orientations. A printing module sequentially prints the supplied image data on the sheets of media in accordance with the specified pattern of media orientations.
Claims8
A printing system for printing on sheets of media having a non-uniform thickness profile, comprising:
- a printing module for printing on the sheets of media;
- a front end for supplying image data to the printing module;
- a media supply system including a media tray;
- a user interface for providing instructions to an operator;
- a media transport system configured to pick a next sheet of media from the media tray and direct it to the printing module;
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- a control system programmed to:
- control the user interface to instruct the operator to load the media tray with a stack of media having a specified pattern of media orientations, the specified pattern of media orientations including at least two different media orientations;
- control the media transport system to pick sequential sheets of media from the media tray;
- instruct the front end to supply sequential image data having orientations in accordance with the specified pattern of media orientations;
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- control the printing module to sequentially print the supplied image data on the sheets of media in accordance with the specified pattern of media orientations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.