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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Applicant:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Inventor:
Douglas Dean Darling, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
XEROX CORPORATION, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/0451 (2013.01); B41J 2/04573 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B41J 2/04588 (2013.01); B41J 2/04593 (2013.01); B41J 2/04596 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for recovering missing inkjets in a printhead including determining an inkjet in the printhead is not ejecting ink, purging degassed ink into the printhead, adjusting a pressure in the printhead so that ink drools out of an aperture of each nozzle of the printhead, repeatedly applying a non-firing waveform at a frequency for a predetermined amount of time to the printhead while the ink drools out of the aperture of each nozzle of the printhead, and after the predetermined amount of time, adjusting the pressure in the printhead to a normal printhead pressure.