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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
May. 11, 1998
Ronald R. Paulsen, Vancouver, WA (US);
Thomas B. Pritchard, Brush Prairie, WA (US);
David J. Lowe, Vancouver, WA (US);
Eric P. Ross, Camas, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a replaceable printing component for an ink-jet printing system having at least one replaceable printing component. The replaceable printing component includes an electrical storage device responsive to printing system control signals for transferring information between the printing component and the ink-jet printing system. The electrical storage device includes a storage portion containing a plurality of data fields associated with the replaceable printing component. Included in the electrical storage device is a plurality data values stored in each of the plurality of data fields. Also included is a control portion responsive to control signals for selectively transferring a block of data values having a preselected size between the ink-jet printer and the storage portion. The plurality of data fields are sized and arranged in the storage portion to ensure each of the plurality of data fields is transferred in a single data transfer between the ink-jet printer and the storage portion.