A nozzle check does just that: I tells you if ink is flowing through a nozzle. It has nothing to do with color balance. It may indicate that colors are off because a certain set of nozzles are misfiring but it does not tell anything about whether the proper nozzles are firing to produce a...
Word Perfect... The only word processor I've used that required me to edit the document outside of the editor to make the document look the way I told the word processor make it look. :thProbably where my anti windows bug got started.
This thread has wandered off topic...
My reply was to a theoretical question. No, current and I suspect past consumer grade printers do not have upgradable memory in the sense I was referring to. It is certainly possible to make a printer that has this ability.
There are a few canon specific RIP instances, primarily for the larger beasts.
Postscript may be expensive both in terms of fees and resource consumption. Ghostscript seems to e fairly popular and I would imagine that adobe really wants their logo on your device so they may be willing to deal...
Most people don't have a need for handling multiple simultaneous sources, but given the increase in the number of print capable devices, this may become an issue. Given the decrease in the price of storage media, spooling multiple jobs should not be a problem. Or, if you want to enable that...
It's not that modern printers "can't" execute postscript, it's that the makers have chosen to have that kind, not necessarily postscript itself, of functionality done by the host computer. I've worked on print systems with far less compute power that executed postscript.
I find the lack of mass...
So are the hot end nozzles fixed size or variable? (Fixed, I suspect.) Do you need to change nozzles depending on the strength needed by the object being printed?
The only thing it proves is that they both eat the same way; That is, it would have cost too much to develop a new cartridge, especially when they had one that works well.
Most likely given the "age" of the device. See below...
If it were designed today putting a processor on the chip could make sense and might even simplify the main printer firmware. But assuming it only has "personal" information is reasonable.
Given the velocity of the print head I would...
Sure, but you are missing the main point. EEPROM, serial EEPROM, ROM, USB, ..., are all examples of nonvolatile storage. File structures can be overlaid on any of them. It is most likely a waste of resources to put a file system on a cartridge, particularly if you only need to maintain a few...