System for black and white printing of colored pages

Details System for black and white printing of colored pages System for black and white printing of colored pages

1996-06-05

1999-04-27

Coles, Edward L.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Specific signal processing circuitry

395114, 358448, 358452, 358453, 345147, 345150, H04N 140, H04N 1387, G06K 1500, G09G 510

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058988190

ABSTRACT:
A system for converting a colored page to a black and white page for black and white printing. A colored page is selected for conversion to black and white. The colored page contains at least one graphical item, such as text, a frame, a line, a closed shape, or a picture. One of the graphical items is then selected for conversion to black and white. After a graphical item is selected, a mode is selected for converting the selected graphical item to black and white. The modes can include a gray scale mode, a light gray scale mode, an inverse gray scale mode, a black with white fill mode, a gray with white fill mode, a black with gray fill mode, a black mode, a white mode, a don't show mode, and an automatic mode. These modes each describe a different method for converting colors in the selected graphical item to black, white, and shades of gray. The selected graphical item is then converted to black and white based on the selected mode. These tasks can be repeated for each graphical item on the colored page. The colored page is printed in black and white in response to converting each graphical item on the colored page.

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