An inkjet printing system may include a printhead and an ink supply which supplies liquid ink to the printhead. The printhead ejects ink drops through a plurality of orifices or nozzles and toward a print media, such as a sheet of paper, so as to print onto the print media. Typically, the orifices are arranged in one or more arrays such that properly sequenced ejection of ink from the orifices causes characters or other images to be printed upon the print media as the printhead and the print media are moved relative to each other.
In one arrangement, the inkjet printing system produces a borderless image on the print media. More specifically, the inkjet printing system produces an image on the print media without one or more unprinted margins between the image and a corresponding edge of the print media. An example of such an image includes a photograph. Examples of such a borderless inkjet printing system include the HP Photosmart 100 series printer produced by Hewlett-Packard Company of Palo Alto, Calif., assignee of the present invention, and the Epson Stylus Photo 820 printer produced by Seiko Epson Corporation.
Typically, the borderless inkjet printing system produces a borderless image on the print media by ejecting ink drops beyond one or more edges of the print media. As such, overspray or waste ink is generated by the ink drops which are deposited beyond the edges of the print media. Unfortunately, this overspray or waste ink can be transferred to print media subsequently fed through the inkjet printing system and, therefore, negatively affect the quality of images produced with the inkjet printing system.
For these and other reasons, there is a need for the present invention.