Patent ID: 11912018
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printing system comprising:
a belt or a plurality of rollers onto which sheets of media are loaded;
a motor to rotate the belt or the rollers to continuously advance the sheets of media at a constant speed;
a leading edge sensor to detect leading edges of the sheets of media as the sheets of media are advanced;
printing hardware to respectively print a plurality of pages of a print job onto the sheets of media as the sheets of media are advanced through a print zone incident to the printing hardware; and
logic hardware to cause the printing hardware to:
print on the sheets of media in a continuous mode in which the belt or the rollers are not stopped until printing of the print job has been completed, such that the belt or the rollers continue to rotate between adjacent pages of the print job and between adjacent sheets; and
print blank lines onto the sheets of media upon completion of printing a first page onto a first sheet of media until the leading edge sensor has detected a position of a leading edge of a second sheet of media.