Patent ID: 11958297
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
identifying distortable ink colors in a print job, wherein the distortable ink colors interact with one another when printed in a same printing pass on a same area of a sheet;
controlling a printhead and sheet feeders of a printing apparatus to separately print the distortable ink colors in different print passes;
printing heat-activated alignment marks in a first pass of the different print passes using the printhead;
drying ink printed on sheets of media by the printhead using a dryer between the different print passes, wherein the heat-activated alignment marks become temporarily visible after being activated by the dryer; and
aligning the sheets of media using the sheet feeders in the different print passes occurring after the first pass using the heat-activated alignment marks while the heat-activated alignment marks are visible after activation of the heat-activated alignment marks by the dryer.