Patent ID: 9452616
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: B41J

Claim Text:
1. A system for printing an image on a surface, comprising: a robot having at least one arm; a printhead mounted to the arm and being movable by the arm over a surface along a rastering path while printing an image slice on the surface; the printhead being configured to print each image slice with an image gradient band along at least one of opposing side edges of the image gradient band wherein an image intensity within each image gradient band decreases along a direction transverse to the direction of the rastering path from an inner portion of the image gradient band toward a side edge; and the arm configured to move the printhead in parallel relation to an existing image slice in a manner such that the image gradient band of the new image slice overlaps the image gradient band of the existing image slice such that the image intensity of an overlap of the image gradient bands is substantially equivalent to the image intensity of the inner portion of at least one of the new image slice and the existing image slice.