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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:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1999
Steven B. Elgee, Portland, OR (US);
Carmalyn Lubawy, Vancouver, WA (US);
Bruce E. Mortland, Oceanside, CA (US);
Craig S. Huston, Escondido, CA (US);
Said Zamani-Kord, San Diego, CA (US);
Dale R Davis, Poway, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A print medium with encoded data and a print media detection system for use in detecting at least one characteristic of the sheet of print medium based on the encoded data are disclosed. The encoded data is designed to minimize its visual perceptibility. The print media detector is designed to recognize various characteristics of print media based upon the encoded data and transmit information regarding these characteristics to a printing device so that one or more operating parameters of the printing device can be adjusted to help optimize print quality for the particular characteristics of a particular print medium. A printing device including the print medium and print media detection system is also disclosed. A method of detecting one or more characteristics of print media used in a printing device is additionally disclosed. Further characteristics and features of the print medium, print media detection system, printing device, and method are described herein, as are examples of various alternative embodiments.