Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Patent
1994-04-29
1996-12-24
Fuller, Benjamin R.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
347 43, B41J 29393, B41J 221
Patent
active
055877281
ABSTRACT:
A printer for printing an image on a substrate in multiple passes which has a sensor for viewing the existing image on the substrate prior to a printing pass. The sensor scans the image on the substrate; on the first printing pass, it would be the image of the virgin substrate. A set of pixels of the scanned image has a lower intensity that of a corresponding set of pixels in a desired image. The difference between the intensities of corresponding scanned and desired image pixels is used to calculate a set of correction pixels which are printed on the substrate by the printhead. On the next pass, the sensor is used to evaluate the results of a previous pass, and another set of correction pixels are calculated and printed over the first set. Each correction pixel is printed according to the full difference between the image intensities of its corresponding scanned and desired image pixels on the last printing pass and a fraction of the difference on preceding passes.
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Fuller Benjamin R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
LaBaw Jeffrey S.
Nguyen Thinh
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