Patent ID: 6582056
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A swath printing system where a scanning carriage carries printheads along a carriage scan axis over media which is periodically advanced through a print zone in a media advance axis direction, comprisinga plurality of printheads providing different ink colours for application of different colour ink drops to a given output on the media, each printhead including an active nozzle swath width and a given nozzle resolution based on the distance separating adjacent nozzles as measured along the direction of a media advance axis; media advance means for moving the media in the media advance direction through the print zone a predetermined distance after completion of a printing swath by the carriage in the direction of the scan axis; and depletion means operable to narrow the given output by removing or shifting portions of an edge of a figure in order to minimize undesirable changes to the size of the figure to be printed.