Color printer technology
CA 2714865 C · Owner: Catalina Marketing Corporation · Inventors: Greenfield, Steven J.; Mount, Jeffrey Richard; Kavis, Mike
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The invention provides a method of printing at a POS of register receipts and marketing information in which the required network bandwidth and quantity of ink are both reduced. SVG files are used to specify communications associated modified image objects are stored locally to the POS and associated modified image objects are modified version of original objects in which color values are replaced with other color values that result in the same print image but with printing of less ink.
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- Filed July 7, 2006 and granted October 23, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 7, 2026.
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