公开(公告)号：US06317218B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-13

申请号：US09500402

申请日：2000-02-08

申请人： Timothy Gerard Yorkey ,  Allen Patrick Johnson ,  David William Murphy ,  Christy Mitchell West

发明人： Timothy Gerard Yorkey ,  Allen Patrick Johnson ,  David William Murphy ,  Christy Mitchell West

IPC分类号： G06F1500

CPC分类号： G06K15/16

摘要： A printer has monochrome and color printing heads for printing color and monochrome images, respectively, and a media feed path for moving sheets of media by the printing heads. The media feed path has a color position in which the color printing heads print color images and the monochrome printing head prints monochrome images, and a monochrome position in which the monochrome printing head prints monochrome images but the color printing heads cannot print color images. A memory stores data on prior print jobs, and a control circuit switches the media feed path from the color position to the monochrome position in response to the data stored in the memory.

摘要翻译： 打印机具有分别用于打印彩色和单色图像的单色和彩色打印头以及用于通过打印头移动介质片的介质进给路径。 介质进给路径具有彩色打印头打印彩色图像并且单色打印头打印单色图像的彩色位置和单色打印头打印单色图像但是彩色打印头不能打印彩色图像的单色位置。 存储器存储关于先前打印作业的数据，并且控制电路响应于存储在存储器中的数据，将介质馈送路径从颜色位置切换到单色位置。