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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald A. Askeland, San Diego, CA (US);
James A. Feinn, San Diego, CA (US);
David D. Helfrick, San Diego, CA (US);
Jason R. Arbeiter, Poway, CA (US);
Jason Quintana, Brush Prairie, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ;
Abstract
The present invention includes as one embodiment an inkjet printing method for decreasing dot placement artifacts of an inkjet printhead having at least two substrates, each with overlapping and non-overlapping nozzle rows, the method including selectively disabling at least one ink ejection element associated with at least one nozzle in the overlapping nozzle rows based on a swath height error of the substrate.