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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
May. 15, 1996
John C Santon, Brush Prairie, WA (US);
Joseph Henry Bauman, Brush Prairie, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A printer control method and apparatus are provided whereby print media feed and printhead carriage acceleration are overlapped in order to optimize the time which a printer spends preparing to print. The printhead carriage is accelerated at a time which has been determined to provide for concurrent completion of printhead carriage acceleration and media feed. This typically is accomplished by periodically previewing print data stored in memory for use in identifying a duration of time required to accelerate the printhead carriage to printing velocity and a duration of time required to advance the print medium. The difference between these times determines when to begin printhead carriage acceleration.