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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2003
Charles Stanley Aldrich, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Marc Alan Herwald, Lexington, KY (US);
Martin Alan Johnson, Winchester, KY (US);
Charles Stanley Aldrich, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Marc Alan Herwald, Lexington, KY (US);
Martin Alan Johnson, Winchester, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A method of performing printhead maintenance firing in an ink jet printer that has a printhead carrier that carries an ink jet printhead, the ink jet printer having a waste ink receptacle, includes the steps of decelerating the printhead carrier from a first velocity after printing print data; and controlling a firing of the printhead during the decelerating in accordance with maintenance data so that ink droplets ejected from the printhead during the decelerating are received by the waste ink receptacle.