Printing method and printing apparatus

US8879110B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Océ Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martin Stockmar · Poing, DE
• Robert Baumgartner · Bad Mergentheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 19, 2013
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2014
• Expiry date: May 8, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K2215/0082
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In a method for printing recording media successively supplied to a printing unit, and wherein a sheet gap is provided from a preceding recording medium, document print data are subjected to a rastering process. A predetermined nominal number of lines is respectively provided for the document print data of a page. The raster print data are successively stored line by line in a print data memory region of an electronic memory. A blank line memory region for a blank line that is not to be filled with print data is provided in the memory. The raster print data are successively read out per line from the print data memory region of the memory and are supplied to the printing unit. After the read out of the nominal number of lines from the print data memory region, the blank line memory region is then read out a number of times, said number of times being a whole number greater than or equal to zero and being dependent on the sheet gap.