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US 2025/0050641 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus timed movements
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsWei Lit TEOH, Felicia REZANDA, Eric Scott COLLINS
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus may include a service station sled to move in a first direction into a wiper zone at a particular time and a print head carriage to move in a second direction out of the wiper zone at the particular time such that the service station sled and the print head carriage are moving at the particular time.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a service station sled to move in a first direction into a wiper zone at a particular time;
- and
- a print head carriage to move in a second direction out of the wiper zone at the particular time such that the service station sled and the print head carriage are moving at the particular time.
A method, comprising:
- controlling a service station sled to move in a first direction into a wiper zone in response to receiving a print job, wherein movement of the service station sled into the wiper zone is a continuous movement;
- and
- controlling a print head carriage to move in a second direction from a first location that is within the wiper zone to a second location that is outside of the wiper zone in response to a particular time in the movement of the service station sled into the wiper zone;
- wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed cause a processor of a printing device to:
- instruct a service station sled to move in a first direction into a wiper zone;
- instruct a print head carriage to move in a second direction, different than the first direction, from a first location that is within the wiper zone to a second location that is outside of the wiper zone at a particular time during a movement of the service station sled into the wiper zone;
- control power to a pick arm in response to the movement of the print head carriage from the first location, wherein a pick arm roller coupled to the pick arm is to feed print media into an image forming apparatus;
- receive a signal indicating a height of the print media in a print media input tray while the service station sled is in the wiper zone;
- and
- monitor a low on print media status based on the height of the print media in the print media input tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.