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US 11,900,201 B2Granted
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing print quality feedback and controlling print quality of machine readable indicia
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorsH Sprague Ackley, Thomas Axel Jonas Celinder
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Abstract
A printer-verifier system for providing print quality feedback and controlling print quality is provided. The printer-verifier system may include a printing mechanism configured to print a machine-readable indicia on a print media; a verifier device configured to optically scan the machine-readable indicia; and a print quality monitoring device in electronic communication with the printing mechanism and the verifier device.
Claims20
A printer comprising:
- a printing mechanism configured to print images onto a print media;
- and
- a print verification device configured to monitor a print quality of the images printed onto the print media;
- wherein the print verification device is configured to analyze the print media to determine if the print quality meets a predetermined quality standard;
- and
- wherein, when the print verification device determines that the print quality of the analyzed print media does not meet the predetermined quality standard, the print verification device is configured to instruct the printing mechanism to print diagnostic information comprising maintenance instructions onto the analyzed print media before the printing mechanism prints images onto a next print media, the maintenance instructions defining at least one user action needed to improve or correct the print quality.
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A method associated with a printer, comprising:
- analyzing a print quality of a barcode printed onto a label by a printing mechanism;
- determining that the print quality of the analyzed label does not meet a predetermined quality standard;
- and
- instructing the printing mechanism to print diagnostic information comprising maintenance instructions onto the analyzed label before the printing mechanism prints images onto a next label, wherein the maintenance instructions define at least one user action needed to improve or correct the print quality.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.