Method for setting up an electrophotographic printing machine using a toner area coverage sensor
US5710958A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 8, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 20, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 8, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G15/5041
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for adjusting image quality in a printing machine having a variable density image developed on a photoconductive surface in accordance with an initial set of starting values. The method includes a first layer of detecting a plurality of densities of the variable density image and transmitting a plurality of signals with each signal being indicative of a density; generating new starting values, responsive to the plurality of signals, using a linearized perturbation model; calculating error values, responsive to the plurality of signals, minimizing the sum of the squares of the error values; testing the error values for convergence on a set of reference values with each reference value indicative of an acceptable density; repeating the detecting, transmitting, generating, calculating, and testing steps for a plurality of iterations. If the error values exceed the reference values and the plurality of iterations exceed a prescribed value (non-convergence), it will branch to a second and third layer of controlling the development bias voltage and adjusting the toner concentration. If convergence is not obtained in either the second or third layer, an image quality fault will b…
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