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US 2003/0081024 A1Published application
Printing system adapted to shift nozzle use
OwnerJoan Carles Vives, Antoni S. Murciainventors
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Abstract
A printing system includes a printhead assembly and a controller associated with the printhead assembly. The printhead assembly includes at least one printhead having a plurality of nozzles, and the controller is adapted to assign dot data representing an image to the plurality of nozzles and shift the dot data by at least one nozzle after a predetermined period.
Claims33
A printing system, comprising:
- a printhead assembly including at least one printhead;
- and
- a controller associated with the printhead assembly,
- wherein the at least one printhead includes a plurality of nozzles, and
- wherein the controller is adapted to operate a first set of the nozzles to print at least one copy of an image and operate a second set of the nozzles to print at least another copy of the image.
2 more elements
A printing system, comprising:
- a printhead assembly including at least one printhead;
- and
- a controller associated with the printhead assembly,
- wherein the at least one printhead includes a plurality of nozzles,
- wherein the controller is adapted to assign dot data representing an image to the plurality of nozzles, and wherein the controller is adapted to shift the dot data by at least one nozzle after a predetermined period.
2 more elements
A method of printing with a printhead assembly including at least one printhead having a plurality of nozzles, the method comprising:
- assigning dot data representing an image to the plurality of nozzles;
- printing the image based on the dot data;
- and
- shifting the dot data by at least one nozzle after a predetermined period.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.