Media expansion compensated print content

A printing device comprising:

• a printing material engine to, prior to printing the print content, determine an amount of printing material associated with printing of at least one plane of image data of a plurality of planes of image data associated with print content;
• an expansion characterization engine to, prior to printing any of the print content, determine media expansion characteristics for the print content based at least in part on the plurality of planes of image data and the amount of printing material associated with printing of at least one plane of image data of the plurality;
• a plane adjust engine to, prior to printing the print content, adjust a respective plane of image data of the plurality based at least in part on the media expansion characteristics;
• a nozzle convert engine to convert the plurality of planes of image data into nozzle data;
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• a print engine to control nozzles of a printhead based on the nozzle data to thereby print media-expansion compensated print content.

A method comprising:

• receiving print content;
• converting, with at least one processing resource, the print content into a plurality of planes of image data for which printing is performed sequentially;
• prior to printing any of the print content, analyzing each of the plurality of planes of image data to determine media expansion characteristics for the print content based at least in part on media characteristics, a printing order of each plane of image data of the plurality, and an amount of printing material associated with printing of each plane of image data;
• adjusting a respective plane of image data of the plurality of planes based at least in part on the media expansion characteristics to thereby compensate for expansion of media during sequential printing of the planes of image data;
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• converting the plurality of planes of image data, including the adjusted respective plane of image data, to nozzle data.