US 12,263,692 B2
Printer apparatus and method for printing pages spaced at less than the printhead width
Kenneth Price Land, Stafford, TX (US); Robert H. Oujesky, Stafford, TX (US); and Sherry Anne Land, Stafford, TX (US)
Assigned to Neuralog, LP, Stafford, TX (US)
Filed by Neuralog, LP, Stafford, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/900,118.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/240,463, filed on Sep. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0075641 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01); G06K 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 3/4075 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04508 (2013.01); B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); G06K 15/022 (2013.01); G06K 15/024 (2013.01); G06K 15/102 (2013.01); G06K 15/16 (2013.01); G06K 15/1809 (2013.01); G06K 15/4065 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
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1. A process, comprising:
providing a continuous media comprised of a plurality of pages that are positioned sequentially on the continuous media, each page of the plurality of pages having a top and a bottom, wherein the continuous media has a top of form mark for each page indicating a position of the top of a corresponding page on the continuous media;
providing a digital image to a printer;
feeding the continuous media in a first direction along a media path through the printer, the printer having a printhead that has a width, wherein the width of the printhead is measured in a direction parallel to the first direction;
printing the digital image on a first page of the continuous media as the continuous media is fed through the printer in the first direction along the media path;
detecting a top of form mark for a second page on the continuous media, the second page being located adjacent to the first page on the continuous media in a second direction, wherein the second direction is opposite to the first direction, and wherein the distance between the bottom of the first page and the top of the second page on the continuous media is less than the width of the printhead;
after printing the digital image on the first page, feeding the continuous media through the printer along the media path in the second direction to position the continuous media within the printer at the top of the second page as indicated by the detected top of form mark for the second page; and
printing the digital image on the second page while feeding the continuous media through the printer along the media path in the first direction.