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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
May. 18, 2023
Applicant:
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Londonberry, NH (US);
Inventor:
Steven Billow, Bow, NH (US);
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC., Londonderry, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/465 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/465 (2013.01); B41J 2/0451 (2013.01); B41J 2/0458 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 2/2139 (2013.01); B41J 2/2142 (2013.01); B41J 2/2146 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments include a method to compensate for defective printer nozzles. The method can include detecting a defective printer nozzle and initiating a print job including image data of the defective printer nozzle for a pixel location of an image. The image is to be printed in accordance with a print mask that maps printer nozzles to pixel locations of the image. The method can include modifying the image to print the image data in a neighboring pixel location relative to the pixel location of the image and printing the modified image.