CPC B41J 2/04505 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B41J 2/2142 (2013.01); B41J 2/2146 (2013.01)] | 33 Claims |
1. A method of operating a single-pass production line printer, wherein a single-pass inkjet is positioned along a production line, the single-pass inkjet configured to print on a print medium as the print medium is passed through the single-pass inkjet, wherein the improvement comprises:
placing a consistent pattern of identifying marks outside of an enclosed area on said print medium to identify either regions for specific printheads across in a line printer cross-process direction or regions for specific rows in a process/print output direction;
identifying, via a scan of an image printed on a print medium generated by a line scan camera positioned along the production line after the single-pass inkjet, a region within said print medium that is uniquely defined by identifying marks placed within a grid comprising the line printer's cross-process direction and the line printer's process/print output direction;
locating individual regions of interest within said print medium; and
orienting a view of said print medium as captured by said scan for any of skew, zoom, and rotation.
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