Patent ID: 11878473
Assignee: HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  G | IPC B

Claim 18:
19. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause an inkjet printer to carry out the steps of:
generating three-dimensional geometrical surface data of an exposed surface of a three-dimensional object on a planar surface;
generating two-dimensional geometrical surface data of the exposed surface of the three-dimensional object on the planar surface on the basis of the three-dimensional geometrical surface data; and
determining an amount of printing fluid to be discharged at a discharge time from a print head having a plurality of print nozzles, the plurality of print nozzles defining at least one print nozzle plane, the print nozzle plane being non-parallel to the planar surface, wherein the step of generating the two-dimensional geometrical surface data includes the step of projecting the two-dimensional geometrical surface data onto the print nozzle plane to correct distortions present in the two-dimensional geometrical surface data due to the print nozzle plane being non-parallel with the planar surface, thereby obtaining two-dimensional print nozzle plane data of the three-dimensional object.