US 11,752,788 B2
Moveable printheads
Pau Costal Fornells, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Marta Ramis Llinares, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Andreas Muller, Barcelona (ES); and Oscar Martinez Bailac, Corvallis, OR (US)
Assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/977,250
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 22, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/023803
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/182601, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0039409 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 25/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/145 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 25/001 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B41J 2/145 (2013.01); B41J 2/2117 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system carriage comprising:
a plurality of printheads comprising a moveable printhead that is movable with respect to other printheads of the plurality of printheads; and
a position adjuster to move the movable printhead from a first printhead position to a second printhead position based on a triggering signal, the movable printhead moved perpendicular with respect to a carriage movement axis and parallel to a media advancement axis that is perpendicular to the carriage movement axis, and the triggering signal indicating a pass number change from a first pass number to a second pass number, wherein the first pass number divides each of the plurality of printheads into a first plurality of segments and the second pass number divides each of the plurality of printheads into a second plurality of segments different from the first plurality of segments.