Patent ID: 11912045
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. An inkjet printer comprising:
at least one printhead;
a media transport configured to move media sheets past the at least one printhead;
an image sensor configured to generate image data of one of the media sheets after the one media sheet has passed the at least one printhead; and
a controller operatively connected to the image sensor, the at least one printhead, and the media transport, the controller is configured to:
receive image content data for a print job;
identify a first number of inkjet operations for each inkjet in the at least one printhead to print media sheets using the image content data for the print job in a first orientation;
identify a second number of inkjet operations for each inkjet in the at least one printhead to print media sheets using the image content data for the print job in a second orientation;
identify a first magnitude of cross-process direction displacement error using the first number of inkjet operations and a cross-process direction displacement error previously measured for each inkjet;
identify a second magnitude of cross-process direction displacement error using the second number of inkjet operations and the cross-process direction displacement error previously measured for each inkjet; and
operate the at least one printhead with the orientation of the image content data associated with the smallest magnitude.