Safety zone for a maintenance task
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAndreu Vinets Alonso, Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Josep Maria Bel Calavia
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Abstract
Examples relate to a method to print a print job. The method comprise comparing an operational parameter of the print job with a reference operational parameter and determining to perform a maintenance task during the print job based on at least a result of comparing the operational parameter with the reference operational parameter. If the maintenance task is to be performed, the method further comprises determining a safety area on a printable medium and performing a maintenance task on a printable medium.
Claims15
A method to print a print job comprising:
- comparing an operational parameter of the print job with a reference operational parameter;
- determining to perform a maintenance task during the print job based on at least a result of comparing the operational parameter with the reference operational parameter;
- if the maintenance task is to be performed:
- determining a safety area on a printable medium;
- performing the maintenance task over the determined safety area.
A printing system comprising:
- a print head having a plurality of nozzles to deliver print agent;
- a drop detector to perform a drop detection analysis on the plurality of nozzles;
- and
- a controller to:
- compare an operational parameter of a print job with a reference operational parameter;
- identify a safety area to perform a maintenance task during a print job;
- determine to perform a maintenance task during a print job based on at least a result of comparing the operational parameter with the reference operational parameter and of identifying a safety area;
- instruct the printing system to perform a maintenance task on the identified safety area when a maintenance task is to be performed.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium encoded with instructions which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- obtain an operational parameter of a print job;
- compare the obtained operational parameter with a reference operational parameter;
- and
- perform a maintenance task on a safety area of a printable medium based on at least a result of comparing the obtained operational parameter with the reference operational parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.