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Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2012
Applicants:

Greg Hargis, Vancouver, WA (US);

Yifeng Wu, Vancouver, WA (US);

Inventors:

Greg Hargis, Vancouver, WA (US);

Yifeng Wu, Vancouver, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 19/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 19/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of compensating for bi-directional alignment error in a printing system including a carriage, a print head disposed thereon, and a bi-directional printing mode includes determining a data set by a data set determination module corresponding to bi-directional alignment error at a plurality of carriage speeds. The method also includes determining a line of best fit of the data set by a best fit determination module and identifying a flight time of fluid ejected from the print head and a carriage position error of the carriage from the line of best fit by an alignment parameter identification module. The method also includes compensating for the bi-directional alignment error by an error compensation module based on the flight time and the carriage position error.


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