Printing apparatus

Details Printing apparatus Printing apparatus

1992-11-17

1994-10-11

Fuller, Benjamin R.

Recorders

Light or beam recording

Including record receiver or handling means therefor

346108, B41J 2455, B41J 2435

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053553039

ABSTRACT:
Printing apparatus particularly suited to provide a hardcopy of an image produced by medical imaging equipment or the like. The apparatus produces an area modulation hardcopy having a large number of gray levels per area modulation cell (pixel) by generating in substantially adfacent columns units of subpixels called pels. The pels have an initial size that is increased by the addition of subpels referred to as slices.

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