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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:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald R Billet, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Raster Graphics Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 40 ; 347 41 ; 347 19 ;
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to controlling an ink jet printing device during an interleaved, or overlap, mode of operation. Ink jet nozzles which would normally be inoperative during a given pass of the print head are selectively activated to compensate for nozzles determined to be inoperative.