Apparatus and method of printing with non-uniformity correction

Incremental printing of symbolic information – Light or beam marking apparatus or processes – Scan of light

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347238, 347240, 347247, 358298, 395115, B41J 2435, B41J 245

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ABSTRACT:
A non-impact printer apparatus and method employs a printhead including a plurality of recording elements and drivers for driving respective recording elements in response to data relative to respective corrected exposure times for recording respective pixels. A first data storage device stores data relative to associating sets of respective recording elements with respective bins. The first data storage device is responsive to first input signals identifying respective recording elements and outputs second signals relative to respective bin assignment numbers for the respective recording elements. A second data storage device is responsive to the second signals for outputting data relative to corrected exposure times for recording respective pixels by respective recording elements. The bin assignment determination for recording elements are established by propagating exposure error calculated from an adjacent respective recording element. This is done so that low resolution spatial frequency errors in cross-track recording noticeable by the eye are generally substantially lower than high resolution spatial frequency errors to reduce visible artifacts in recording.

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