US Patent Issued to Xerox on May 13 for "System and method for improving image quality by orienting adjacent printheads to produce opposite direction ink flows in the manifolds of the adjacent printheads" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,585, issued on May 13, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for improving image quality by orienting adjacent printheads to produce opposite direction ink flows in the manifolds of the adjacent printheads" was invented by Christine A. Steurrys (Williamson, N.Y.) and John P. Meyers (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printer configures the printheads in a printhead module in an orientation that attenuates a temperature differential between the ink drops ejected by adjacent printheads at a stitch area between the adjacent printheads. The reduced temperature differential helps ensure that...