Patent ID: 7815285

Claim:
A printhead configured to operate in accordance with a plurality of print modes, wherein one of the plurality of print modes can be selected in accordance with a bit of address data received by the printhead, wherein each of the plurality of print modes comprise a pattern of pixels that the printhead is capable of addressing during a single unidirectional scan, wherein one of the plurality of print modes is selected depending on the number of printhead passes required by a print job, wherein a print mode is selected for each pass of the printhead and said each pass of the printhead is configured as a full pixel advance in the sub-scan direction of an imaging device in which the printhead is installed, wherein the pattern of pixels in each successive pass has at least two successive raster lines that are exactly the same and a number of successive passes required to provide a full print coverage for every raster line corresponds to the number of said successive raster lines that are said exactly the same.