PRINTING AT LOCATIONS BASED ON GRID MAPS

Organization Name

hewlett-packard development company, l.p.

Inventor(s)

Lluis Abello Rosello of Sant Cugat del Valles (ES)

Ramon Viedma Ponce of Sant Cugat del Valles (ES)

Borja Navas Sanchez of Sant Cugat del Valles (ES)

PRINTING AT LOCATIONS BASED ON GRID MAPS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240416649 titled 'PRINTING AT LOCATIONS BASED ON GRID MAPS

Original Abstract Submitted

a printing apparatus is disclosed herein. the apparatus comprises a chassis moveable on a surface through a motion control system, a receiver to receive a signal from a positioning module corresponding to a distance of the printing apparatus with respect to a reference; a printhead to selectively eject an amount of a printing fluid to the surface; and a controller. the controller is to determine the actual location of the printing apparatus with respect to a grid map representative of a part of the surface, the grid map including a plurality of nodal points with its corresponding height values; and to control the motion control system to move the chassis to a first surface location corresponding to a first nodal point of the grid map. the controller is further to obtain a vertical component value with respect to the reference at the surface location; and control the printhead to eject an amount of printing fluid at the surface location in a pattern indicative of an error between the vertical component value and the nodal point height.