Handheld printing device with light source to project light box
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMatthew Douglas Reier, Daniel Ethan Frantz Quarto, Chad Quinten Martin
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Abstract
A handheld printing device includes a printing mechanism and a light source. The printing mechanism prints a swath of print material onto a print medium as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium. The light source projects onto the print medium a light box. The light box has top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the printing mechanism will print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium.
Claims15
A handheld printing device comprising:
- a printing mechanism to print a swath of print material onto a print medium as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium;
- and
- a light source to project onto the print medium a light box having top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the printing mechanism will print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium.
A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing program code executable by a handheld printing device to:
- cause a light source of the handheld printing device to project onto a print medium a light box having top and bottom edges;
- and
- cause a printing mechanism of the handheld printing device to print a swath of print material onto the print medium as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium,
- wherein the light box has top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the printing mechanism will print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium.
A method comprising:
- placing a handheld printing device onto a print medium on which the handheld printing device is to print a swath of print material;
- causing the handheld printing device to project onto the print medium a light box having top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the handheld printing device will print the swath;
- and
- moving the handheld printing device across the print medium, causing the handheld printing device to print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.