Patents by Inventor Foster M. Fargo
Foster M. Fargo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7753499Abstract: Disclosed is a jet printing method, which includes firing printing fluid drops and deflecting them. The drops are then deflected again in a second direction, which can allow them to be deposited in a collimated swath. Also disclosed is dynamically adjusting the deflection to achieve a dynamic swath density and/or a dynamic swath width.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Adam I. Pinard, Roland Guilmet, Foster M. Fargo, Jr.
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Publication number: 20080192093Abstract: Disclosed is a jet printing method, which includes firing printing fluid drops and deflecting them. The drops are then deflected again in a second direction, which can allow them to be deposited in a collimated swath. Also disclosed is dynamically adjusting the deflection to achieve a dynamic swath density and/or a dynamic swath width.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Adam I. Pinard, Roland Guilmet, Foster M. Fargo
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Patent number: 7380911Abstract: Disclosed is a jet printing method, which includes firing printing fluid drops and deflecting them. The drops are then deflected again in a second direction, which can allow them to be deposited in a collimated swath. Also disclosed is dynamically adjusting the deflection to achieve a dynamic swath density and/or a dynamic swath width.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Adam I. Pinard, Roland Guilmet, Foster M. Fargo, Jr.
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Patent number: 7032988Abstract: A certified proofing method is disclosed that includes receiving a printable sheet and automatically detecting at least one feature of at least one component of a proofing process bearing on its quality. The method also includes automatically evaluating at least one result of the step of detecting, printing print data on the printable sheet, and generating a certification notice for the printable sheet in response to a positive electromagnetic result signal from the step of evaluating.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Kodak Graphic Communications Canada CompanyInventors: Samuel Darby, Foster M. Fargo, Jr., Adam I. Pinard
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Patent number: 6916078Abstract: One general aspect of the invention provides for creating half-tone ink-jet proofs on print-enhanced sheets based on an effective image cell pitch that substantially matches a cell pitch used to create press plates. Print process variables can be adjusted for the ink-jet proofing printer based on received color matching information. These adjustments can define preprint ink mixing ratios that allow at least some image cells to be printed with ink mixtures. Or they can define sub-area printing values that allow at least some dots to be printed with areas of different inks.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2004Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Creo Americas, Inc.Inventors: Adam I. Pinard, James M. Enge, Bradley S. Winslow, Andrew Masia, Foster M. Fargo, Jr.
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Patent number: 6793310Abstract: A set of ink-jet printable proofing sheets are disclosed that each comprise a first printable face having a periphery including first, second, third, and fourth edges. The first and third edges are disposed opposite each other on the first printable face, and the second and fourth edges are disposed opposite each other on the first printable face. The first face has properties resulting from a deposited ink drop print-enhancing treatment. Each sheet also includes a second face sharing the periphery and the first, second, third, and fourth edges of the first printable face, and a first machine-readable mark located on one of the first and second faces and including a plurality of data areas of different densities, with the combination of densities in the data areas being unique to each sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Creo Americas, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Darby, Foster M. Fargo, Jr., Adam I. Pinard
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Patent number: 6786565Abstract: One general aspect of the invention provides for creating half-tone ink-jet proofs on print-enhanced sheets based on an effective image cell pitch that substantially matches a cell pitch used to create press plates. Print process variables can be adjusted for the ink-jet proofing printer based on received color matching information. These adjustments can define preprint ink mixing ratios that allow at least some image cells to be printed with ink mixtures. Or they can define sub-area printing values that allow at least some dots to be printed with areas of different inks.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Creo Americas, Inc.Inventors: Adam I. Pinard, James M. Enge, Bradley S. Winslow, Andrew Masia, Foster M. Fargo, Jr.
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Publication number: 20030189612Abstract: A certified proofing method is disclosed that includes receiving a printable sheet and automatically detecting at least one feature of at least one component of a proofing process bearing on its quality. The method also includes automatically evaluating at least one result of the step of detecting, printing print data on the printable sheet, and generating a certification notice for the printable sheet in response to a positive electromagnetic result signal from the step of evaluating.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Samuel Darby, Foster M. Fargo, Adam I. Pinard
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Publication number: 20030189610Abstract: A set of ink-jet printable proofing sheets are disclosed that each comprise a first printable face having a periphery including first, second, third, and fourth edges. The first and third edges are disposed opposite each other on the first printable face, and the second and fourth edges are disposed opposite each other on the first printable face. The first face has properties resulting from a deposited ink drop print-enhancing treatment. Each sheet also includes a second face sharing the periphery and the first, second, third, and fourth edges of the first printable face, and a first machine-readable mark located on one of the first and second faces and including a plurality of data areas of different densities, with the combination of densities in the data areas being unique to each sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Samuel Darby, Foster M. Fargo, Adam I. Pinard
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Publication number: 20030058291Abstract: One general aspect of the invention provides for creating half-tone inkjet proofs on print-enhanced sheets based on an effective image cell pitch that substantially matches a cell pitch used to create press plates. Print process variables can be adjusted for the inkjet proofing printer based on received color matching information. These adjustments can define preprint ink mixing ratios that allow at least some image cells to be printed with ink mixtures. Or they can define sub-area printing values that allow at least some dots to be printed with areas of different inks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Adam I. Pinard, James M. Enge, Bradley S. Winslow, Andrew Masia, Foster M. Fargo
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Patent number: 5625397Abstract: An ink jet printer comprising a plurality of ink jets arranged for dot-on-dot continuous ink jet printing, at least two of said plurality of ink jets being supplied with ink of the same dye and different densities. A printed article and a method of printing are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1994Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Iris Graphics, Inc.Inventors: Donald R. Allred, John L. Ingraham, Foster M. Fargo
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Patent number: 5416612Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a color half-tone image from a digital data file are disclosed. The method includes the step of filling a pattern of dots for each of a plurality of colors, wherein the configuration and size of dots in a macropixel varies as a function of input density for each of the plurality of colors. The step of filling includes the step of producing a plurality of multiple droplet dots in less than the total available pixel locations in a macropixel in at least part of a range of input densities. The apparatus performs the operations of the method. The pixels are of variable size as a function of the number of droplets deposited at the pixel locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1992Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Iris Graphics Inc.Inventors: John L. Ingraham, Foster M. Fargo, Jr., James M. Enge
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Patent number: 5160938Abstract: Calibration apparatus for an ink jet printer of the type having a rotary drum which has a cylindrical surface and which rotates about an axis, and a print head which is movable parallel to that axis in an axial direction along the drum surface and between a head home position and a position beyond one end of the drum, the head projecting an ink jet comprised of ink droplets towards the drum surface. The apparatus comprises a needle-like ink jet sensor having a needle tip positioned at a selected distance in the axial direction beyond the one end of the drum and with its axis perpendicular to the drum axis. The sensor is movable in the direction of its axis between a sensor home position at a selected location relative to the drum and a position in which the sensor can intercept the ink jet and the sensor produces a sensor signal when it does intercept the ink jet.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1990Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: IRIS Graphics, Inc.Inventors: Foster M. Fargo, Ted S. Geiselman, Alan H. Jones