Page picking with print data
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsWei Lit Teoh, Felicia Rezanda, Yi Xiong Anselm Lim
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Abstract
An example printing device includes a memory to store data to print to a print media, a page pick mechanism to pick a page of the print media from a print media source, and a controller connected to the memory and the page pick mechanism. The controller is to control a timing of the page pick mechanism to pick a next page of print media based on a quantification of the data in the memory for a current page.
Claims13
A printing device comprising:
- a memory to store data to print to a print media;
- a page pick mechanism to pick a page of the print media from a print media source, wherein the page pick mechanism includes a clutch;
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- a controller connected to the page pick mechanism to control a timing of the page pick mechanism to pick a next page of print media based on a quantification of the data for a current page and control the page pick mechanism to engage the clutch before picking the next page when the quantification of data is unknown.
A printing device comprising:
- a buffer to store data to print to a print media;
- a page pick mechanism to pick pages of the print media from a print media source;
- a safe gap sensor positioned at a media path to detect a page of the print media in the media path;
- a heat-generating component;
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- a controller connected to the buffer, the page pick mechanism, and the safe gap sensor, wherein the controller is to:
- control a pick of a next page of the print media at a high speed if high-speed criteria are met, wherein the high-speed criteria include:
- the buffer being empty or storing a low quantification of data remaining to be printed to a current page and the safe gap sensor not detecting the current page;
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- the heat-generating component having a temperature that is lower than a reference temperature.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
- control a page pick mechanism of a printing device to provide a next page of print media to a media path at a rate that is based on a quantification of data in a buffer that remains to be printed to a current page of the print media, wherein the quantification is based on marking amount and position on the current page, wherein the rate is determined to be a higher rate when a lesser quantification of data is in the buffer, and wherein the rate is determined to be a lower rate when a greater quantification of data is in the buffer and an inkjet printhead is recently dispatched to a service spitting location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.