SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING DROPS OF FLUID ACCORDING TO DROP PATTERNS

Abstract: some devices, systems, and methods specify nozzles of a fluid dispenser that are usable to eject fluid and nozzles of the fluid dispenser that are not usable to eject fluid; specify contiguous nozzle groups of the nozzles that are usable to eject fluid; specify a coverage height of a largest contiguous nozzle group of the contiguous nozzle groups; determine, for one or more pass combinations, a respective combined coverage height, wherein each pass combination respectively includes two or more passes, of the fluid dispenser, that are shifted relative to each other by a shift value; and select, as a selected basis of a scanning pattern, the largest contiguous nozzle group or, alternatively, one of the one or more pass combinations based on the coverage height of the largest contiguous nozzle group and on the respective combined coverage height of each of the one or more pass combinations.

Inventor(s): Brent Andrew Snyder

CPC Classification: B41J2/04561 (generating single droplets or particles on demand)

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