Printing modes with drying delays
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPeter Morovic, Jan Morovic
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Abstract
Certain examples relate to a method of a method of printing an image which comprises determining image data for an image to be printed onto a substrate, the image data comprising application amounts of one or more colorants to be applied to the substrate. A print mode is determined for applying the colorants to the substrate and comprises a plurality of application passes each for applying some of the application amounts of the colorants to the substrate and a drying delay between at least some of the application passes. The duration of the drying delay is dependent on a characteristic of one or more of the colorants or substrate. The image is printed using the image data and the print mode.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- determining image data for an image to be printed onto a substrate, the image data comprising application amounts of one or more colorants to be applied to the substrate;
- determining a print mode for applying the colorants to the substrate and comprising a plurality of application passes each for applying some of the application amounts of the colorants to the substrate and a drying delay between at least some of the application passes, wherein a duration of the drying delay is dependent on a characteristic of one or more of the colorants or substrate;
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- printing the image using the image data and the print mode.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a print device to print an image onto a substrate using a number of colorants;
- a memory and a processor to:
- determine image data corresponding to the image, the image data comprising application amounts of the colorants to be applied to the substrate in order to print the image;
- determine a print mode for applying the colorants to the substrate according to the image data, the print mode comprising a plurality of application passes each for applying some of the application amounts of the colorants to the substrate and a drying delay between at least some of the application passes, wherein the duration of the delay is dependent on a characteristic of one or more of the colorants or substrate;
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- control the print device to print the image using the image data and the print mode.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a set of computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- determine image data for an image to be printed onto a substrate, the image data comprising application amounts of one or more colorants to be applied to the substrate;
- determine a print mode for applying the colorants to the substrate and comprising a plurality of application passes each for applying some of the application amounts of the colorants to the substrate and a drying delay between at least some of the application passes, wherein the duration of the drying delay is dependent on a characteristic of one or more of the colorants or substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.