PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD UTILIZING A TABLE

摘要

A printing apparatus (10) including: an imaging mechanism (20); a drum (30) for advancing media sheets past the imaging mechanism (20) for printing; an encoder coupled to the drum (30); a controller (60) coupled to the encoder (50); and, a memory (70) coupled to the controller (60) and containing controller executable code and at least one table (74) including a plurality of data entries each indicative of one of a plurality of sequential drum positions and at least one associated action; wherein, the controller executable code, when executed by the controller (60), causes the controller (60), for each data entry in the table (74), to: communicate data indicative of the indicated drum (30) position to the encoder (50); receive an indication that the drum (30) has rotated to the communicated drum position; responsively to the received indication, initiate the indicated associated action; and communicate data indicative of another of the data entries' associated drum position to the encoder (50) responsively to the received indication.