Determining insufficient suction force
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAntonio Gracia Verdugo, Aleix Fort Filgueira, Norman Guillo
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Abstract
Provided in one example is a printing system. The system includes a printing zone including a platen (50). The system includes a drive to move a medium (58) through the printing zone. The system includes a suction force generator (78) to generate a suction force to hold down the medium onto the platen while the drive moves the medium through the printing zone. The system includes a sensor (52) to monitor the movement of the medium through the printing zone in a medium advance direction. The system includes a controller to determine that the suction force generated by the suction source generator is insufficient based on an output of the sensor.
Claims15
A printing system comprising:
- a printing zone comprising a platen;
- a drive to move a medium through the printing zone;
- a suction force generator to generate a suction force to hold down the medium onto the platen while the drive moves the medium through the printing zone;
- a sensor to monitor the movement of the medium through the printing zone in a medium advance direction;
- a controller to determine that the suction force generated by the suction source generator is insufficient based on an output of the sensor.
A method comprising:
- moving a medium through a printing zone of a printing system;
- applying a suction force to a medium to hold down the medium while a drive moves the medium through the printing zone;
- monitoring the movement of the medium through the printing zone in a medium advance direction;
- determining that the suction force is insufficient to hold down the medium based on the monitored movement.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processing resource of a computing device to operate a printing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- moving a medium through a printing zone of a printing system;
- applying a suction force to a medium to hold down the medium while a drive moves the medium through the printing zone;
- monitoring the movement of the medium through the printing zone in a medium advance direction;
- determining that the suction force is insufficient to hold down the medium based on the monitored movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.