Xerox Corporation

Charles A Ruffino

Jerry Floyd Adams

Anthony E Audi

William M Lindenfelser

Thomas J Brockman

Gary K Bauer

Bruce A Collier

An ink recorder and a method of tracking ink ejections from nozzles of a printhead in the ink recorder to bypass or reduce maintenance of the nozzles is provided. In one aspect, the ink recorder includes: a printhead with a plurality of ink ejecting nozzles arranged in a single column; a print controller with a first and a second raster buffer; a first and a second stroke buffer; a DMA channel; a print engine; and a maintenance controller. In another aspect, the method controls printhead nozzle maintenance during a print job in an ink recorder that prints an image using a plurality of color inks, wherein the single column of nozzles in the printhead includes a segment of active nozzles associated with each color ink and one or more inactive nozzles between each adjacent segment.

Ink ejection tracking for controlling printhead nozzle maintenance

A printing process determines a maximum pixel printing rate of a printer. An area coverage of an image to be printed is estimated. When the area coverage multiplied by the printing speed exceeds the maximum pixel printing rate, the area coverage of the images to be printed is automatically reduced and the resulting image is printed.

Systems and methods for selectively blocking image data

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Charles A Ruffino