Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-08
2011-03-08
Nguyen, Lamson D (Department: 2861)
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
C347S043000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07901024
ABSTRACT:
A method of inkjet printing includes using a grayscale inkjet print head. The inkjet print head is driven driving to eject a number of successive ink droplets from the ink chamber in accordance with print tone data provided to the grayscale print head, the number of successive ink droplets forming a multiple-droplet drop creating a printed dot of appropriate tone on the receiving medium. The method includes the step of excluding print tone data corresponding with the ejection of a single-droplet drop from being provided to the grayscale print head. A preferred embodiment includes the removal of this print tone data from the data provided to the grayscale print head. A more preferred embodiment includes applying a multilevel halftoning technique for avoiding the use of print tone data corresponding with a single-droplet drop during the generation of the print tone data for inkjet printing the image with the grayscale print head.
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Agfa Graphics NV
Keating & Bennett LLP
Nguyen Lamson D
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