Patent ID: 7920289

Claim:
A system for printing on media, the system comprising: a printhead assembly configured to make physical print sweeps relative to print regions of the media and to print within the print regions during the physical print sweeps; a memory communicated with the printhead assembly and configured to receive data associated with a logical print sweep, the data associated with the logical print sweep controlling printing within a first portion of a first print region of the media during a corresponding first physical print sweep of the printhead assembly; and a controller communicated with the printhead assembly and the memory, wherein the controller initiates the first physical print sweep of the printhead assembly before all of the data associated with the logical print sweep is received by the memory; wherein a punt boundary separates the data printed within the first portion of the first print region during the first physical print sweep from data printed within a second portion of the first print region during a second physical print sweep and wherein the printhead assembly stops printing when additional data associated with the logical print sweep is not received during the first physical print sweep of the printhead assembly; wherein the printhead assembly prints data associated with the logical print sweep within a second portion of the first print region during a corresponding second physical print sweep; and wherein a punt boundary separates the data printed during the first physical print sweep from the data printed during the second physical print sweep, wherein the punt boundary is randomly dithered within a single logical print sweep.