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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2016
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Mauricio Seras Franzoso, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Pau Costal, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor and comprising instructions to: control print apparatus to print a test patternon a test region of a print medium; receive test data relating to the test patternprinted on the print mediumfrom a sensor; analyse the test data with reference to baseline data to determine if the test patternsatisfies a print quality criterion; output an instruction to operate the print apparatus in a first mode, in which a pre-printing treatment is not applied to the print medium, in response to determining that the test patternsatisfies the print quality criterion, the pre-printing treatment comprising wiping a printing surface of the print medium with a wiper element; and output an instruction to operate the print apparatus in a second mode, in which the pre-printing treatment is applied to the print medium, in response to determining that the test patternsatisfies the print quality criterion.