Patent ID: 7261388
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method of printing a plurality of pages during a print job, comprising: using a page-wide-array printing device having redundant dot-forming elements and using print masks to distribute dot-forming-element activity between the redundant dot-forming elements in a manner taking into account known malfunctions of dot-forming elements known by not using, or only using less frequently, dot-forming elements with known malfunction; generating a plurality of print masks which are different, as they distribute the dot-forming-element activity in different ways, but are equivalent, since they are based on the same knowledge of dot-forming-element malfunctions; dividing the print job into page-sets of at least one page; printing the different page-sets of the print job using different equivalent print masks, thereby distributing the dot-forming-element activity in different ways from page-set to page-set.