Paper type input optimizing print quality
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid E. Smith, Gerard J. Carlson, George V. McIlvaine, Darryl J Richter
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Abstract
A Method for controlling image-forming device operations through use of bar code information located on the packaging of image media. Bar code information is used to adjust internal image-forming device operational parameters in order to maximize image and print quality.
Claims20
A method for identifying characteristics of image media loaded into an image-forming device, comprising:
- providing image media, said image media being contained within a package, said package having a bar code on a surface of said package containing information about said image media;
- sensing information encoded in said bar code with a bar code reader located external to a housing of the image-forming device;
- reading said bar code information with an image-forming device controller and updating the image-forming device settings upon activation or resetting of the image-forming device;
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- assigning said image-forming device settings to an image media tray in said image-forming device.
A method for identifying characteristics of image media loaded into an image-forming device, comprising:
- providing image media, said image media being contained within a package, said package having a bar code on a surface of said package containing information about said image media;
- sensing information encoded in said bar code with a bar code reader located external to a housing of the image-forming device;
- reading said bar code information with an image-forming device controller and updating the image-forming device settings and
- assigning said image-forming device settings to an image media tray in said image-forming device.
A method for identifying characteristics of image media loaded into an image-forming device, comprising:
- providing image media, said image media being contained within a package, said package having a bar code on a surface of said package containing information about said image media;
- sensing information encoded in said bar code with a bar code reader located external to a housing of the image-forming device;
- modifying settings for said image-forming device based on said bar code information;
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- assigning said image-forming device settings to an image media tray in said image-forming device;
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- prompting a user to pass said the bar code over said bar code reader when said image-forming device senses an open tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.