Patent ID: 9457599
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: B41J,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A printer, comprising: a media feeding system for feeding media into a print zone along a first axis; a carriage to mount at least one printhead, the carriage attached to a drive system that moves the carriage in the print zone along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis; a controller coupled to the media feeding system, the drive system and the carriage; memory coupled to the controller, the memory having an ink control module loaded therein, the ink control module, when executed by the processor, causing the printer to print multiple swaths of ink onto media in the print zone without advancing the media, where the multiple swaths of ink are printed with a first ink distribution per swath when the width of media is below a threshold, and to print multiple swaths of ink with a second ink distribution per swath when the width of the media is not below the threshold, where the first ink distribution per swath is different than the second ink distribution per swath.