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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1997
John L Stoffel, San Diego, CA (US);
Keshava A Prasad, San Marcos, CA (US);
Ronald A Askeland, San Diego, CA (US);
Michele E Shepard, Escondido, CA (US);
Frank Drogo, San Marcos, CA (US);
Leonard Slevin, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark S Hickman, Vancouver, WA (US);
Clayton L Holstun, Escondido, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A color ink-jet printer is provided, with one pen for dispensing black ink onto a print medium and at least one pen for dispensing color ink onto a print medium. The pen for dispensing black ink is adapted to jet droplets of black ink of a first volume and the pen(s) for dispensing color ink are adapted to jet droplets of color ink of a second volume, with the first volume being larger than the second volume. Such a color ink-jet printer provides both superior text quality of the black ink and does not require as much ink volume of the color ink(s) as previous ink-jet printers.