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US 9,193,158 B2Granted
Print medium advancing distance adjustment
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid E. De Bellis, Teresa Gene Trueba Embree, Hsue-Yang Liu, Elizabeth Ezetta
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Abstract
A sweep speed is determined for sweeping a printer head of a printer across a print medium for printing a swath of an image on the print medium. A distance by which to advance the print medium is at least partially determined in accordance with the determined sweep speed and the print medium is advanced by the determined distance.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining a sweep speed for sweeping a printer head of a printer across a print medium for printing a swath of an image on the print medium;
- determining a distance by which to advance the print medium at least partially based on the determined sweep speed;
- and
- advancing the print medium by the determined distance to enable printing of another swath.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by a processor will cause the processor to:
- determining a sweep speed for each of a plurality of printer head sweeps across a print medium to print swaths on the print medium;
- between each of the plurality of printer head sweeps,
- determine a distance by which to advance the print medium at least partially based on the determined sweep speed of a sweep of the plurality of printer head sweeps;
- and
- advance the print medium by the determined distance to enable printing of one of the swaths,
- wherein the distance to advance the print medium is adjusted between each of the plurality of printer head sweeps based on the determined sweep speed for a previously-printed swath or of an upcoming sweep of the printer head.
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A printer system comprising:
- a printer head to sweep across a surface of a print medium to print a swath on the print medium;
- a print medium advancing mechanism to advance the print medium;
- and
- a controller to determine a sweep speed with which the sweeping is swept across the print medium, and to control the advancing mechanism to advance the print medium by a distance that is determined at least partially on the basis of the determined sweep speed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.