Printer tester

• US 20050119851A1
• Filed: 09/03/2004
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tonerhead Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tonerhead Incorporated
• Inventors: Nicodem, Harry E., Knecht, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 7,079,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/115
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 29/393 Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine ; Controlling or analysing mechanical parameters involving printing of test patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2294 by remote test

Abstract

An apparatus for delivering one or more messages to a computer printer sufficiently self-contained so as to require neither support or nor interface with additional equipment in order to deliver the one or more messages.

Claims

1. A tester for testing a computer printer, comprising:

a housing, said housing being sized to be hand-held, and having a microcontroller, a memory, a connector and a pushbutton array;

said housing being configured to be connected to a computer printer through said connector;

a computer program resident in said memory, wherein when said tester is connected to said computer printer, said tester is energized by said computer printer without need for additional energy source, such that when a button on said pushbutton array is depressed, said computer program will control the microcontroller which selects a message from memory to be transmitted to said computer printer to be printed.

2. The tester in claim 1, wherein said message contains a test image.