Textile printing servicing operations
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJordi Bas Ferrer
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Abstract
It is hereby disclosed a textile printing method comprising a controller to: receive a print job; and determine a print area of a garment based on the print job; wherein the controller is to instruct a printhead comprising a pre-treatment liquid to eject a pre-treatment liquid in a pre-treatment area of the garment being the pre-treatment area associated to the print area; and to instruct a printhead comprising printing fluid to print the print job on the print area.
Claims12
A textile printing method comprising:
- receiving a print job;
- determining a print area of a garment based on the print job;
- instructing a printhead comprising a pre-treatment liquid to eject the pre-treatment liquid in a pre-treatment area of the garment associated to the print area;
- instructing a printhead comprising printing fluid to print the print job on the print area;
- determining a servicing area of the garment based on the pre-treatment area such that a size of the servicing area is based on the size of the pre-treatment area;
- and
- instructing the printhead comprising printing fluid to perform spitting routines in the servicing area exclusive of the pretreatment area.
A textile printer that comprises:
- a set of marking printheads, wherein each marking printhead ejects a marking fluid towards a garment;
- a set of pre-treatment printheads, wherein each pre-treatment printhead ejects a pre-treatment liquid towards the garment;
- and
- a controller to receive a print job and control the set of marking printheads and the set of pre-treatment printheads;
- wherein the controller is to receive a print job and define, on the garment, a pre-treatment area and a print area based on the print job
- wherein the controller is to instruct the pre-treatment printheads to eject pre-treatment liquid on the pre-treatment area and to instruct the marking printheads to eject marking fluid on the print area,
- wherein the controller is to define a servicing area on the garment based on the pre-treatment area such that a size of the servicing area is based on the size of the pre-treatment area, and
- wherein the controller instructs the marking printheads to perform a servicing operation in the service area.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a controller, the medium storing instructions to control a textile printer to:
- receive a print job;
- determine a print area of a garment based on the print job;
- instruct a printhead comprising a pre-treatment liquid to eject the pre-treatment liquid in a pre-treatment area of the garment associated to the print area;
- instruct a printhead comprising printing fluid to print the print job on the print area;
- determining a servicing area of the garment based on the pre-treatment area such that a size of the servicing area is based on the size of the pre-treatment area;
- and
- instructing the printhead comprising printing fluid to perform spitting routines in the servicing area exclusive of the pretreatment area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.