| 摘要 |
<p>A method and system for compensating for swath skew with respect to a perpendicular direction of carrier travel. An amount of swath skew is determined, and gross and/or fine skew adjustments are applied to reduce the swath skew to visually imperceptible limits. The method and system according to this invention can be carried out through software and/or hardware and thus eliminates the need for mechanical adjustment of an ink jet printer. The method and system operates by determining appropriate gross and fine skew adjustments upon insertion of a new printhead into a carrier. The fire order sequence of the fire groups (22, 24, 26) in the printhead can be altered, and the swath data adjusted to compensate for swath skew caused by nozzle plate (20) and/or printer skew with respect to the perpendicular direction of carrier travel.</p> |
