Printers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBrent EWALD, Pierre J. KAISER, John GEILE, Mike Rode
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Abstract
Printers and associated printer maintenance methods and apparatus are disclosed. A printer including a work area; a temperature sensor to measure a first temperature value at a first region of the work area and a second temperature value at a second region of the work area; and a recoater to distribute a first amount of build material onto the first region and a second amount of the build material onto the second region in response to the first temperature value being a threshold different than the second temperature value.
Claims15
A printer, comprising:
- a work area;
- a temperature sensor to measure a first temperature value at a first region of the work area and a second temperature value at a second region of the work area;
- and
- a recoater to distribute a first amount of build material onto the first region and a second amount of the build material onto the second region in response to the first temperature value being a threshold different than the second temperature value.
A method, comprising:
- monitoring a first temperature value at a first region of a work area of a printer and a second temperature value at a second region of the work area;
- and
- in response to the first temperature value being a threshold different than the second temperature value, distributing a first amount of build material onto the first region and a second amount of the build material onto the second region.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a temperature comparator to compare a first temperature value at a first region of a work area and a second temperature value at a second region of the work area;
- and
- a build material distributing profile determiner to determine a build material distributing profile associated with distributing different amounts of build material on the first and second regions based on a difference between the first temperature and the second temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.