Printers and controllers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAdria Gallart Del Burgo, Alex Campa Coloma, Jordi Bas Ferrer, M.Isabel Borrell Bayona, Andreu Gonzalez Oliva, Marti Rius Rossell
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Abstract
Example implementations provide a controller for controlling printing of a printer, the controller comprising: an input interface for accessing an image to be printed; an image processor to identify at least one selected feature within the image; and circuitry: a. to control printing of said at least one selected feature using a respective print operation; and b. to control printing of said image, other said at least one selected feature, using a further respective print operation; c. said respective print operation being different to said further respective print operation.
Claims15
A controller for controlling printing of a printer, the controller comprising:
- an input interface for accessing an image to be printed;
- an image processor to identify at least one selected feature within the image;
- and print control circuitry:
- a. to control printing of said at least one selected feature using a respective print operation;
- and
- b. to control printing of said image, other said at least one selected feature, using a further respective print operation;
- c. said respective print operation being different to said further respective print operation, and wherein the further respective print operation is associated with a further set of print traversals and the respective print operation is associated with a set of print traversals, wherein the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals are different, and wherein a fractional relationship exists between the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals.
A method, comprising:
- identifying selected features of a plurality of features of an image to be printed;
- the selected features to be printed using a reduced number of print operations relative to non-selected features of the plurality of features;
- the non-selected features to be printed using a greater number of print operations;
- controlling printing of the selected features of the image using the reduced number of print operations, and
- controlling printing of the non-selected features of the image using the greater number of print operations, and wherein the greater number of print operations are associated with a further set of print traversals and the reduced number of print operations are associated with a set of print traversals, wherein the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals are different, and wherein a fractional relationship exists between the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals.
Non-transitory machine-readable storage storing machine-executable instructions, the instructions comprising:
- instructions to identify selected features of a plurality of features of an image to be printed;
- the selected features to be printed using a reduced number of print operations relative to non-selected features of the plurality of features;
- the non-selected features to be printed using a greater number of print operations;
- instructions to control printing of the selected features of the image using the reduced number of print operations, and
- instructions to control printing of the non-selected features of the image using the greater number of print operations, and wherein the greater number of print operations are associated with a further set of print traversals and the reduced number of print operations are associated with a set of print traversals, wherein the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals are different, and wherein a fractional relationship exists between the further set of print traversals and the set of print traversals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.