Patent ID: 8764168

Claim:
A continuous inkjet printer system in which continuous jets of ink are emitted from an array of regularly spaced nozzles, the printer being initially configured to print pixels on a receiver in a first regularly spaced pixel grid, the first regularly spaced pixel grid having a first spatial density, the receiver having a travel path through the printer, the first spatial density extending in a direction perpendicular to the travel path of the receiver, the printer comprising: a source of pressurized ink in communication with the array of regularly spaced nozzle bores, the pressure at which the ink is supplied being sufficient to emit streams of ink through the nozzle bore; a jet control element associated with each nozzle bore of the array of nozzle bores which is selectively actuated to at least one of form and steer print drops from the ink stream emitted from the associated nozzle bore; and a memory element associated with the inkjet printer that is selectively loaded during a printing operation with data that modifies the subsequent actuation of each of the jet control elements to at least one of form and steer print drops that print pixels on a receiver in a second regularly spaced pixel grid, the second regularly spaced pixel grid having a second spatial density of pixels extending in a direction perpendicular to the travel path of the receiver that is different when compared to the first spatial density of the first regularly spaced pixel grid.