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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2002
Matthew Giere, San Diego, CA (US);
Satya Prakash, Poway, CA (US);
Ronald A. Askeland, San Diego, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes as one embodiment an inkjet printing system, having a substrate, a plurality of heating elements disposed on the substrate, an ink ejection assembly adjacent the substrate forming a plurality of ink ejection chambers, each chamber associated with a different one of the heating elements and a controller operatively connected to the heating elements, the controller receiving print data and processing the print data to predict thermal conditions of a subset of the ink ejection chambers for selectively operating the corresponding heating elements of the subset.