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US 2016/0355010 A1Published application
Interdigitated primitives
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorSean P. McClelland
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Abstract
Printing devices and methods are described. An array of ink nozzles can be arranged in a number of primitives, wherein a first primitive of the number of primitives is interdigitated with a second primitive.
Claims15
A printhead, comprising:
- an array of ink nozzles arranged in a number of primitives, wherein the number of primitives include a first set of primitives and a second set of primitives and each primitive of the first set is interdigitated with a corresponding primitive of the second set:
- and
- firing chambers associated with the array of ink nozzles, wherein a first set of firing chambers associated with a first address of one primitive of each of the interdigitated sets of primitives is fired before a second set of firing chambers associated with a first address of the other primitive of each of the interdigitated sets of primitives is fired.
A printhead comprising:
- an array of ink nozzles arranged in a number of primitives, wherein a first primitive of the number of primitives is interdigitated with a second primitive so that:
- a first address of the first primitive is in a first-ordered nozzle position and a first address of the second primitive is in a second-ordered nozzle position:
- and
- a second address of the first primitive is in a third-ordered nozzle position and a second address of the second primitive is in a fourth-ordered nozzle position.
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A method for printing, comprising:
- firing a number of firing chambers of a printhead associated with first addresses of each odd-numbered primitive of a number of primitives first, wherein the number of primitives are numbered based on an ordering of firing of the number of primitives and each odd numbered primitive is interdigitated with a subsequently ordered even-numbered primitive;
- firing a number of firing chambers associated with first addresses of each even-numbered primitive of the number of primitives second;
- firing a number of firing chambers associated with second addresses of each odd-numbered primitive of the number of primitives third;
- and
- firing a number of firing chambers associated with second addresses of each even-numbered primitive of the number of primitives fourth.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.