Interlace printing process
US4967203A · kind A · utility
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16Claims
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 29, 1989 |
| Grant date | Oct 30, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 29, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/111
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Quality of printed images as produced by an ink-jet printer (10) is improved by staggering applications of ink dots (30) to pixel locations (36) such that overlapping ink dots are printed on successive passes of a printhead (16) and such that swaths (38) are partially printed on overlapping passes of the printhead. Quality of multi-colored or multi-shaded images is further improved by grouping pixels (36) into super pixels (42), and applying various combinations of colored ink dots to the various pixels within each super pixel in a staggered sequence.
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