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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:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen King Glass, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 ; B41J 2/15 ; B41J 2/21 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 ; B41J 2/15 ; B41J 2/21 ;
Abstract
A printer including apparatus for reducing systematic print quality defects includes, in one embodiment, a printhead with variably spaced nozzles and, in another embodiment, a controller which varies the location along the carriage scan axis that ink is ejected from the nozzles.