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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
Phillip Eugene Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
Carl Michael Dennison, Firestone, CO (US);
Phillip Eugene Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
Carl Michael Dennison, Firestone, CO (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for seeding print defects and inspecting print jobs. One embodiment is a system that includes a print server. The print server includes an interface that receives a test print job, a memory that stores the test print job, and a print controller that determines a number of copies of the test print job to print, subdivides each sheetside image of the test print job into a number of distinct zones corresponding to the number of copies, assigns each of the zones to a different copy of the test print job, and for each copy of the test print job, and seeds a print defect into each sheetside image of the copy within a zone assigned to the copy.