Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Yi Hong Tor

Ronald Albert Askeland

Brian J Keefe

Lawrence H White

Xavier Bruch

Thomas Michael Sabo

Jeffrey Allen Wagner

Alex Andrea Tallada

Gonzalo Gaston Llado

Chandrasekhar Nadimpalli

Marian Dinares Argemi

Francisco Lopez Moral

Maria Magdalena Martinez Ferrandiz

Daniel Vincent Keane

Alyssa Michelle Siegman

A printer is disclosed herein. The printer has a printhead having a plurality of ink nozzles for ejecting ink, a servicing mechanism for capturing the ejected ink from the ink nozzles, to service the printhead, and a control device coupled to the printhead and the servicing mechanism for regulating the servicing. As part of the regulation, the control device continues feeding a substrate towards the printhead during an idle period. The idle period of the printhead can be a duration when printing on the substrate is suspended. Further, the control device regulates ejection of ink from the ink nozzles towards the substrate during the idle period and operates the servicing mechanism during the idle period. In an example, the servicing mechanism captures the ink before the ink reaches the substrate.

Servicing a printhead of a printer

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yi Hong Tor