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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:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chuong C Ta, San Diego, CA (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 41 ; 347 42 ;
Abstract
A swath type printer including a print carriage supported printhead and a printhead positioning mechanism for adjusting the position of the printhead relative to the media axis at the end of each scan of the carriage along a carriage axis, such that dots printed by printing elements of the printhead in a sequence of a first scan and a second scan of the print carriage are interleaved along the media axis and are separated along the media axis by one-half of the predetermined printing element dot pitch.