Patent ID: 8210631

Claim:
A method for twice printing a same media sheet in a media processing device, the method comprising: aligning a first portion of a printhead of the media processing device to a print area of the media sheet, the first portion having a first group of nozzles; printing the print area of the media sheet by traversing the printhead over the print area of the media sheet in a first direction, the printing performed by the first portion of the printhead; aligning a second portion of the printhead to the print area of the media sheet by adjusting the media sheet relative to the printhead by an index distance in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second portion of the printhead having a second group of nozzles different than the first group of nozzles; and reprinting again the print area of the media sheet by traversing the printhead over the print area of the media sheet in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the reprinting performed by the second portion of the printhead having the second group of nozzles different than the first group of nozzles.