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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2004
Applicant:
Jeffrey Ray Ehlert, Lexington, KY (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey Ray Ehlert, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/195 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of ink evaporation prediction for an ink reservoir includes establishing an empirical evaporation curve representing evaporation characteristics for an ink reservoir type, the ink reservoir belonging to the ink reservoir type; and establishing an evaporation prediction curve for the ink reservoir that approximates the empirical evaporation curve.