Patent ID: 8770706

Claim:
In an inkjet printer including a gloss sensor and at least one printhead for depositing ink onto a surface of a sheet of media being processed therein with a controller being communicatively coupled to the at least one printhead and gloss sensor, a method for determining a drying time of a print swath of the ink deposited on the surface of the sheet of media, the method comprising: forming the print swath on the sheet of media with the at least one printhead; scanning the print swath with the gloss sensor to provide a gloss sensor output response; processing the gloss sensor output response to determine a gloss value Gp and then storing the gloss value Gp; waiting for a predetermined scan interval to elapse; performing a next scan of the print swath with the gloss sensor; for the next scan, processing a next gloss sensor output response to determine a next gloss value Gn and then storing the next gloss value Gn; and determining if gloss values Gp and Gn are within a predetermined range, if so, moving the sheet of media and, if not, replacing the value of Gp with Gn, waiting until a new next predetermined scan interval has elapsed and then performing a new next scan of the print swath.