Print material element sets
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsSergio Etchebehere Juan, Peter Morovic, Jan Morovic
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Abstract
In an example, a method includes determining, by processing circuitry, an element set to be associated with a print addressable location for printing an article in a one-pass print mode. The element set may comprise a plurality of elements, wherein each element identifies a print material or print material combination and is associated with a probability that the print material or print material combination identified by that element is to be applied to the associated print addressable location. Determining the element set for printing in a one-pass print mode may comprise favouring elements identifying individual print materials over elements identifying print material combinations.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- determining, by processing circuitry, an element set to be associated with a print addressable location for printing an article in a one-pass print mode, the element set comprising a plurality of elements, wherein each element identifies a print material or print material combination and is associated with a probability that the print material or print material combination identified by that element is to be applied to the associated print addressable location,
- wherein determining the element set for printing in a one-pass print mode comprises favouring elements identifying individual print materials over elements identifying print material combinations.
Apparatus comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry comprising:
- a color mapping resource module to determine a one-pass print mode color mapping resource, the one-pass print mode color mapping resource comprising a plurality of element sets to be associated with a print addressable location for printing an article in a one-pass print mode, each element set comprising a plurality of elements identifying a print material or print material combination associated with a probability that the print material or print material combination identified by that element is to be applied to an associated print addressable location,
- wherein the one-pass print mode color mapping resource is determined to include elements sets which avoid overprinting of print material combinations.
A tangible machine readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- determine a color mapping resource for a bidirectional print mode, wherein the color mapping resource comprises a plurality of possible print instructions and the instructions comprise instructions to determine the color mapping resource to reduce a probability of selection of print instructions which result overprinting at a print location with more than one print material when printing a printed output based on the color mapping resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.