Media parameter sensing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRobert E. Haines, Judith A. Garzolini
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Abstract
Systems and procedures are described to automatically configure an imaging device to form images on sheets of print media that are loaded in the imaging device. To accomplish this, the imaging device reads, or senses a single marking from at least one side of the sheet of print media. The marking includes data; the data provides orientation information with respect to how the print sheet is loaded in the imaging device. The data further includes a set of media parameter information corresponding to the sheet of print media. The imaging device configures itself to form images on the sheet of print media based on at least a portion of the sensed data from the sheet of print media.
Claims15
In an imaging device loaded with a sheet of print media, a method for automatically configuring the imaging device to form images on the sheet of print media, the method comprising:
- reading a single marking from at least one side of the sheet of print media, the marking representing machine readable data indicating the side along which the marking is located and including media parameter information corresponding to the sheet of print media;
- determining the side of the sheet of print media on which the marking is located based on at least a portion of the data;
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- configuring the imaging device to form images on the sheet of print media based on at least a portion of the data.
A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for automatically configuring an imaging device to form images on a sheet print media that is loaded into the imaging device, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions for:
- reading a single marking from at least one side of the sheet of print media, the marking representing machine readable data indicating the side along which the marking is located and including media parameter information corresponding to the sheet of print media;
- determining the side of the sheet of print media on which the marking is located based on at least a portion of the data;
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- configuring the imaging device to form images on the sheet of print media based on at least a portion of the data.
An imaging device comprising:
- a memory comprising computer-executable instructions for automatically configuring the imaging device to form images on a sheet of print media that is loaded in a media supply bin;
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- a processor that is operatively coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to fetch and execute the computer-executable instructions from the memory, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions for:
- reading a single marking from at least one side of the sheet of print media, the marking representing machine readable data indicating the side along which the marking is located and including media parameter information corresponding to the sheet of print media;
- determining the side of the sheet of print media on which the marking is located based on at least a portion of the data;
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- configuring the imaging device to form images on the sheet of print media based on at least a portion of the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.