Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Attribute control
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-03
2004-06-22
Lee, Thomas D. (Department: 2722)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Attribute control
C358S002100, C358S003270, C382S176000, C382S266000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06753976
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention generally relates to liquid ink recording devices using two or more different color inks. More particularly, the present invention is directed to processing and printing composite documents comprising text objects, graphic objects and/or pictorial objects.
Liquid ink printers of the type often referred to as continuous stream or as drop-on-demand, such as piezoelectric, acoustic, phase change wax-based or thermal, employ at least one printhead from which droplets of ink are directed towards a recording sheet. Within the printhead, the ink is contained in a plurality of channels. Power pulses cause the droplets of ink to be expelled as required from orifices or nozzles at the end of the channels.
Liquid ink printers including ink jet printers deposit black and/or colored liquid inks which tend to spread when the ink is deposited on paper as a drop, spot, or dot. A problem of liquid ink printers is that the liquid inks used have a finite drying time, which tends to be somewhat longer than desired. Bleeding tends to occur when the drops are placed next to each other in a consecutive order or in a cluster of dots within a short time. Bleeding, spreading, and feathering causes print quality degradation including color shift, reduction in edge sharpness and solid area mottle which includes density variations in said areas due to puddling of inks. Intercolor bleeding occurs when ink from one color area blends into or bleeds with ink from another color area. Intercolor bleeding is often most pronounced where an area of black ink (relatively slow drying) adjoins an area of color ink (relatively fast drying); however, intercolor bleeding can occur at the interface between areas of any color inks having substantially different properties such as dry time or permeability.
Various methods have been proposed to increase edge sharpness and to reduce intercolor bleeding. Some of the proposed methods include replacing slow drying black ink with a process or composite black formed by combing fast drying color inks; under-printing a portion of the slow drying black ink with a color ink, use a fast drying black ink, and using both fast dry and slow dry black ink. While all of the proposed methods reduce intercolor bleeding to some degree, they all have one or more drawbacks that effect printer performance and/or image quality.
For example, using a fast dry ink in place of a slow drying black ink results in a reduced quality of black reproduction as current fast drying black inks have lower image quality than slow drying black inks. Additionally, fast drying black inks typically result in fuzzy edges in black areas next to non-printed areas. The use fast drying black ink at an interface and slow drying black ink for interior regions can eliminate lower image quality associated with fast drying black inks, but increases the cost and complexity of printer design by requiring a fifth ink in addition to the cyan, magenta, yellow and slow drying black ink. Similarly, replacing slow drying black ink with a process black (composite black) generated from fast drying color inks typically results in a reduced quality of black reproduction resulting in a lower image quality than the use of slow drying black ink. Additionally, the use of process black increases the amount of ink deposited on the print medium, increases dry time and increase the time to print a document. Furthermore, the use of additional ink may not be suitable for print medium such as transparencies and some types of paper which is not very absorbent. Under-printing a portion of the slow drying black ink with a color ink can be used to reduce intercolor bleeding; however, under-printing increases the amount of ink on the print medium. Moreover, printing color under black often results in the thickening or blurring of edges particularly along edges between printed and non-printed areas.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
One aspect of the present invention is a method for processing document image data for printing an image on a receiving medium. The method includes receiving document image data, the image data comprising at least two elements from the group of text objects, graphic objects and pictorial objects; classifying each element in the image data as being one of a text object, a graphic object, or a pictorial object; printing the image data corresponding to elements classified as a text object according to a set of text processing parameters, the text processing parameters including processing text smaller than a text threshold size according to a set of small text processing parameters and processing text greater than the text threshold size according to a set of large text processing parameters; printing the image data corresponding to elements classified as a graphics object according to a set of graphics processing parameters; and printing the image data corresponding to elements classified as a pictorial object according to a set of pictorial processing parameters.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method for processing document image data to generate an image on a receiving medium. The method includes receiving image data comprising one or more image regions; determining for each image region whether the region includes any image data corresponding to a first image type; printing image regions including image data corresponding to the first image type according to a first pixel management process; and printing image regions not including image data corresponding to the first image type according to a second pixel management process.
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Dudek Lesley P.
Hull Virgil Joseph
Smith Glenn K.
Torpey Peter A.
Elpert William
Lee Thomas D.
Xerox Corporation
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