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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

May. 17, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Li Qian, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;

Andrei Dafinoiu, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;

Oscar Martinez Bailac, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;

Chandrasekhar Nadimpalli, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/23 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/2346 (2013.01); B41J 2/0458 (2013.01); B41J 2/04563 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 11/002 (2013.01); H04N 1/0005 (2013.01); H04N 1/00015 (2013.01); H04N 1/00042 (2013.01); H04N 1/00082 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller for a printing device includes print mode controller to determine whether a first or second print mode is to be used for a print job, and temperature controller to control a printhead temperature at least one of prior to and during printing the print job, the temperature controller to activate a printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a first temperature if the print mode controller determines that the first print mode is to be used, and the temperature controller to activate the printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a second temperature if the print mode controller determines that the second print mode is to be used, the second temperature different from the first temperature.


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