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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2007
Dirk Kahl, Preetz, DE;
Ralph Petersen, Luetjenburg, DE;
Frank Pierel, Gettorf, DE;
Soenke Schmidt, Kiel, DE;
Dirk Kahl, Preetz, DE;
Ralph Petersen, Luetjenburg, DE;
Frank Pierel, Gettorf, DE;
Soenke Schmidt, Kiel, DE;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
In a method for automatically identifying a conveyor belt in a printer as being one of a plurality of belt types, the conveyor belt is moved along a circulatory path. A start and an end of a longitudinal marking on the moving conveyor belt are detected. A distance of travel of the moving conveyor belt between the detecting of the start and the end is sensed to provide a sensed marking length. The sensed marking length is allocated to a nearest of a plurality of nominal marking lengths. Each nominal marking length is associated with a respective one of said belt types. The belt type is associated with or defined by a set of one or more printer control parameters.