Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Ramón Viedma Ponce

Anna Margareta Hjort

Aviv Yehezkel Hassidov Pleser

Borja Navas-Sanchez

Borja Navas Sanchez

Joan Farre Bravo

Antonio Rodriguez Avila

A self-propelled printer is provided having communication circuitry to receive print data for an image to be formed. A drive mechanism of the printer to provides locomotion of the entire self-propelled printer and a print head is arranged to transfer a print material on to a print medium. Processing circuitry to generates an image formation path to be traversed by the print head via locomotion of the self-propelled printer. The image formation path is based at least in part on the received print data. The processing circuitry controls the drive mechanism to autonomously drive the self-propelled printer along the image formation path. A corresponding method and computer program for generating a 2D image using a self-propelled printer are provided.

Printing systems

An example method is described in which a property is measured associated with a vertical displacement of a supporting frame of a printing system, the printing system having a floating frame mounted on the supporting frame, and the floating frame comprising a position sensor of the printing system and a nozzle to eject a drop of print agent; an orientation of the floating frame is adjusted with respect to the supporting frame based on the measured property.

Orientation adjustments

A self-propelled printer is provided having communication circuitry to receive print data for an image to be formed. A drive mechanism of the printer to provides locomotion of the entire self-propelled printer and a print head is arranged to transfer a print material onto a print medium. Processing circuitry to generates an image formation path to be traversed by the print head via locomotion of the self-propelled printer. The image formation path is based at least in part on the received print data. The processing circuitry controls the drive mechanism to autonomously drive the self-propelled printer along the image formation path. A corresponding method and computer program for generating a 2D image using a self-propelled printer are provided.

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Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain

Ramón Viedma Ponce