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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2008
Applicant:

Philip Russell James Smith, Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/155 (2006.01); B41J 2/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A printer control unit () is described for controlling the size of droplets emitted by a nozzle of a printhead () in an inkjet printer. The control unit () receives information about an image to be printed by the printer, for example from a raster image processor (), the information including droplet size information regarding the size of droplet required to be emitted by the nozzle to print the image. Print parameter information for printing the image is determined on the basis of the received droplet size information, the print parameter information including information for use in setting the printer such that droplets emitted by the nozzle during the printing of the image have the required droplet size.


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