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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:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
David E Hackleman, Monmouth, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 40 ; 347 47 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for ink-jet printing provides a redundancy strategy. A number of drop generators within the printhead is added to the standard array, providing redundant orifices in the nozzle plate at the ends of each column of orifices. In operation, the printhead is shifted regularly or pseudo-randomly such that a different set of nozzles prints adjacent swaths or pixels of a swath in multi-pass or multi-dot per pixel printing.