Enhancing printhead utilization
CA 2337217 A1 · Owner: Moore North America, Inc. · Inventors: Moscato, Anthony V.; Hipp, Christian J.
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The effective life of a printhead, such as an ink jet printhead is extended, when printing repetitive images by taking measures to change the printhead print elements (e.g. nozzles) that are fired to effect repetitive imaging at a desired location on the media. The nozzles can be changed yet the repetitive , images be provided at the same desired location on the media by one or more of : finishing the media after printing to take into account a new position of the images on the media to provide a proper finished media (e.g. by trimming a particular edge or edges); at spaced points in time moving the printhead relative to the media in the second dimension (e.g. substantially transverse …
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- Filed May 4, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 4, 2020.
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