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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:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2003
Applicant:
James Madeley, North Vancouver, CA;
Inventor:
James Madeley, North Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
Creo SRL, Burnaby, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/155 (2006.01); B41J 2/015 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An inkjet printer has process color printheads and spot color printheads each comprising a plurality of inkjet nozzles. The printheads are arranged such that the spot color printhead has fewer nozzles allocated for each spot color then the process color printhead has allocated for each process color. For areas requiring spot color printing the printing rate may be reduced or the dot size and/or the dot spacing may be varied for spot colors to enable printing at the same rate as for process colors.