US 12,036,799 B2
Supply and mixing cartridges
Miquel Boleda Busquets, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Jorge Castano Aspas, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Albert Crespi Serrano, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Tuomo Eljas Kaikkonen, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); and David Butinya Teixido, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/704,848.
Application 17/704,848 is a continuation of application No. 16/765,710, granted, now 11,292,266, previously published as PCT/US2019/052227, filed on Sep. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212478 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 2/18 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/18 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17589 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A supply cartridge for a printing apparatus, the supply cartridge comprising:
a reservoir;
printing material in the reservoir;
an interface to electrically couple with the printing apparatus; and
an integrated circuit including memory including:
a printing material characteristic parameter indicative of a characteristic of the printing material; and
recirculation process instructions to be executed by the printing apparatus to perform a recirculation process for moving the printing material between the reservoir and at least one of the printing apparatus or a mixing cartridge coupled to the printing apparatus.