Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Ezequiel Jordi Rufes Bernad

Antonio Gracia Verdugo

Juan Manuel Valero Navazo

Marta Coma Vives

Emilio Angulo Navarro

Francisco Javier Perez Gellida

Mikel Zuza Irurueta

Joan Albert Jorba Closa

Gonzalo Gaston Llado

Santiago Sanz Ananos

Marina Cantero Lazaro

Marti Rius Rossell

Oriol Borrell Avila

Xavier Gros

David Claramunt Morera

Roger Bastardas Puigoriol

Oriol Moliner Rafa

Francesc Melia Sune

Ignacio Picatoste Olloqui

Lluis Valles Casanova

Laura Sanchez Domingo

Joan Marti Velasco Figueras

Eva Blay Lerin

Roger Bastardas Pulgoriol

Xavier Gras Gros

Pasqual Batalia

Daniel Guiterrez Garcia

A method of operating a device to receive a print medium is disclosed. Rotation of a receiving device to receive a print medium is detected, whereby the rotation is caused by an external force. An assisting force is applied to further rotate the receiving device in response to the detected rotation.

Assisted print medium receipt

In one example, a vapor control heater for a printer includes a housing, a heating element at least partially enclosed by the housing, and a fan to move air over the heating element and into a flow of air from the printer dryer.

Vapor control heating in a printer

In one example, a print zone heater includes a structure defining a plenum, a heating element, a fan to move air over the heating element into the plenum, and a conduit from the plenum to carry heated air into the print zone.

Print zone heating

In one example, a method for wiping the face of a printhead includes wiping across the face of the printhead and then wiping along the face of the printhead with a web of cleaning material. In another example, a wiper for wiping a face of a printhead includes a rotatable shaft having an axis of rotation and a helical blade affixed to the shaft. The helical blade is simultaneously rotatable on the shaft against the face of the printhead and translatable along the face of the printhead in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation.

Printhead wiping

In one example, a wiper for wiping the face of a movable printhead includes a stationary blade oriented perpendicular to the direction of travel of the printhead and spanning the path of the printhead.

In one example, a print substrate edge holder includes a first part to hold down the edge of a print substrate without covering any part of the substrate in the print zone and a second part overlapping the first part to collect printing fluid dispensed past the edge of the print substrate.

Print substrate edge holder

A media loading device includes a detachable stiffener that is detachably connected to a leading portion of a soft media and supports the leading portion of the soft media during threading of the soft media through a media path of a printer. A method for loading soft media includes detachably connecting a leading edge of soft media onto a detachable stiffener and placing the detachable stiffener and soft media into a printer. The detachable stiffener and soft media are fed through the media path in the printer.

Media loading devices

A printing device configured to print a diagnostic plot, the diagnostic plot including a cockle pattern, a main media advance pattern, and a secondary media advance pattern, wherein the cockle pattern, main media advance pattern, and secondary media advance pattern are for providing feedback and for adjusting printing characteristics associated with the printing device. A method of adjusting vacuum levels in a vacuum system of a printing device including generating a diagnostic plot on media; the diagnostic plot including a cockle pattern, a main media advance pattern, and a secondary media advance pattern, and accepting adjustments to printing parameters on the printing device based on printing defects displayed on the diagnostic plot.

Diagnostic plot for adjusting printing characteristics

A system of printing borderless images on printable media includes at least one sheet of printable media including an imaging surface and a non-imaging surface. The system further includes a removable extension strip having a front surface with an adhesive zone and a non-adhesive zone, a non-adhesive back surface, and a straight line of demarkation between the adhesive and non-adhesive zones. The adhesive zone is configured to removably adhere to the non-imaging surface, and the straight line of demarkation is configured as a placement guide for adhering the adhesive zone of the extension strip to the media. An associated method includes adhering an adhesive portion of removable extension strip to a non-imaging surface proximate a trailing edge of the media, and ink-jet printing an image on an imaging surface of the media using an ink-jet printer. The strip is used by rollers in the printer to advance the media.

Systems and methods for printing borderless images on printable media

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Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain

Ezequiel Jordi Rufes Bernad