Patent ID: 7273269

Claim:
A method of printing comprising the steps of: a. providing a recording medium including a grid of pixel areas; b. providing a travel path of a movable printhead comprising a direction of motion of the printhead with respect to the recording medium, the printhead having a linear array of nozzles and being tilted with respect to the travel path so that the liner array is tilted at a nonzero angle relative to the travel path; c. associating a single pixel area of the grid of pixel areas with a corresponding nozzle of the linear array and with a time interval during which a drop ejected from the corresponding nozzle can impinge the single pixel area; d. dividing the time interval into a plurality of subintervals; e. grouping the plurality of subintervals into blocks; f. associating one of two labels with each block, the first label defining a printing drop and the second label defining non-printing drops; g. associating a drop forming pulse only between consecutive selected subintervals, not each subinterval, of blocks having the first label; h. associating a drop forming pulse between each subinterval of each block having the second label; i. associating a drop forming pulse between other subintervals not in steps g. and h., the drop forming pulse in step i. being only between each pair of consecutive blocks, and the drop forming pulse in steps g. and h. being only within the blocks; j. causing drops to be ejected from the corresponding nozzle based on the associated drop forming pulses; and k. repeating steps c. through j. for each single pixel area that remains in the grid of pixel areas.