Patent ID: 6857723

Claim:
A method for printing comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a printer including a carrier which is horizontally movable across a print medium, including first and second printheads attached to the carrier, and including a printhead driver connected to the first and second printheads, wherein the printer has a horizontal resolution using a single printhead of H horizontally-spaced-apart dots-per-inch; and b) printing dots on the print medium in a first printing mode using the first and second printheads as the carrier moves horizontally across the print medium in the same print pass, wherein the first printhead is enabled and the second printhead is non-enabled by the printhead driver during a first portion of a carrier-movement distance equal to 1/H, wherein the second printhead is enabled and the first printhead is non-enabled by the printhead driver during a second portion of the carrier-movement distance, and wherein the first and second portions do not overlap.