Patent · US Expired

Color printer

US5821974A · kind A · utility

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9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 27, 1996
Grant dateOct 13, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 27, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K2215/0094
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Of a plurality of page memories for storing printing data corresponding to the printing heads, at least the page memory is associated with an auxiliary memory for storing at least two continuous pages of printing data for at least one printing head, wherein a printing data write unit executes a process for writing the next page of printing data in one of the page memory and the auxiliary memory while the printing data stored in the other one of the page memory and the auxiliary memory is being printed, and the image processing unit supplies printing data continuously and alternately from the page memory and the auxiliary memory to each corresponding printing head.

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