Configuring printer operation using colorant information on colorant units
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPeter Morovic, Jan Morovic
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Abstract
A printer apparatus comprises one or more ports (2011 to 201M) for receiving one or more colorant units (INK1 to INKN), and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to determine which one or more colorant units (INK1 to INKN) have been loaded into the printer apparatus. The processing unit is adapted to retrieve colorant information from each loaded colorant unit (INK1 to INKN), and determine an ink-set configuration using the colorant information retrieved from each loaded colorant unit (INK1 to INKN). Operation of the printer apparatus is configured according to the determined colorant-set configuration.
Claims17
A method for controlling the operation of a printer apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining which colorant units have been loaded into the printer apparatus;
- retrieving colorant information from each loaded colorant unit;
- determining a colorant-set configuration using the colorant information retrieved from each loaded colorant unit;
- determining when the colorant-set configuration does not match a predetermined set of valid colorant-set-configurations;
- when the colorant-set configuration does not match the predetermined set of valid colorant-set configurations, compute parameters for configuring an operation of the printer apparatus based on an unmatched colorant-set configuration;
- and
- configuring the operation of the printer apparatus according to the computed parameters.
A printer apparatus comprising:
- two or more ports to receive one or more colorant units;
- and
- a processor to:
- apply constraints as to which ports can be used at the same time;
- determine which one or more colorant units have been loaded into the printer apparatus;
- retrieve colorant information from each loaded colorant unit;
- determine a colorant-set configuration using the colorant information retrieved from each loaded colorant unit;
- and
- configure the operation of the printer apparatus according to the determined colorant-set configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.