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US 2009/0153603 A1Published application
System and method for imaging ink supplies in a printer
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorDavid Allen Mantell
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Abstract
A method identifies ink supplied to a printer. The method includes generating an image of an ink supply installed in a printer, comparing the image of the ink supply to a stored reference image of at least one ink supply, and activating an indicator in response to the generated image corresponding to the stored reference image.
Claims20
A method for identifying ink supplied to a printer, comprising:
- generating an image of an ink supply installed in a printer;
- comparing the image of the ink supply to a stored reference image of at least one ink supply;
- and
- activating an indicator in response to the generated image corresponding to the stored reference image.
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A system for identifying a meltable ink stick in a solid ink printer comprising:
- an imaging device located within a solid ink printer that generates an image of an ink supply installed in the printer;
- and
- an image comparator coupled to the imaging device, the image comparator configured to compare the meltable ink stick image received from the imaging device to a reference image of a meltable solid ink stick stored in the printer.
A printer comprising:
- a print head for ejecting ink to form an image on an image receiving member as it passes by the print head;
- an ink supply site in the printer;
- an imaging device located proximate the ink supply site to generate an image of an ink supply at the ink supply site;
- and
- an image comparator coupled to the imaging device, the image comparator configured to compare the ink supply image to a reference image of an ink supply stored in the printer and to generate a signal indicating whether the ink supply image corresponds to the stored image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.