Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hfwi Ftt-packard Development Company, L.p.

Albert Serra

Jordi Bas

Lluis Abello

Laura Portela

A number of colors in a predefined region of an image to be compressed are determined. The predefined region has a plurality of pixels. In response to determining that the number of colors is greater than a first predefined threshold, a lossy compression process is selected dependent on a number of pixels in the predefined region having a predefined color. The selected lossy compression process is applied to the predefined region.

Image compression

A printing apparatus may comprise a print head including nozzles to eject liquid drops, a drop sensor to detect flying liquid drops ejected by at least some of the nozzles, and a controller. The controller is to control at least some of the nozzles to sequentially eject liquid drops while the drop sensor is at a predetermined position relative to the nozzles, to determine the actual position of the drop sensor relative to the nozzles based on a sensor profile including a nozzle location specific signal characteristic of the sequentially ejected liquid drops detected by the drop sensor, and to calculate an offset between the determined actual position and the predetermined position. The controller may take the offset into account in positioning the drop sensor relative to one of the nozzles to detect a liquid drop ejected from that nozzle in a subsequent operation.

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Terrassa, Spain

Albert Serra