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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2013
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Andreas Mueller, Barcelona, ES;
Jacint Humet Pous, Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, ES;
Jaime Fernandez del Rio, San Diego, CA (US);
Utpal Kumar Sarkar, Saint Quirze del Valles, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for use in printing a swath in a multipass printing device are disclosed. The method comprises selectively depositing a drop of ink associated with a pixel to be printed on a print media based on a substantially uniform print mask function during a first pass of a print head, and selectively depositing a further drop of ink associated with the pixel on the print media based on a ramp print mask function during a further pass of the print head.