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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2001
Dinesh S. Shah, Penfield, NY (US);
Frederick A. Donahue, Walworth, NY (US);
John F. Moreland, Fairport, NY (US);
Thomas N. Taylor, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A printer control apparatus and an algorithm for determining the peak instantaneous speed of a substrate through a thermal ink jet printer and a printer apparatus are disclosed herein. The printer includes a dryer module, a print head module, and a controller. The method includes determining the tolerable peak instantaneous speeds of the substrate through the print head and dryer modules, which by their sequential nature, operate out of phase from one another. The lower of the two speeds is then selected as the optimum instantaneous speed of the substrate through the printer. A controller in the printer carries out methods disclosed herein.