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US 2002/0171697 A1Published application
Method and system for compensating for banding defects in inkjet printers
OwnerEyal Gargir, Limor Tirosh +1inventors
InventorsEyal Gargir, Limor Tirosh, Lior Lifshitz
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Abstract
A method and system for compensating for banding defects il inkjet printer in provided. The mnetlod comprising identifyg one or more nozzles whose coatribution to a printed test image is witliin a defned range around a banding defect appearing in He printed test image and generating compensation data for at least one of the identified nozzles.
Claims9
A method comprising:
- identifying one or more nozzles whose contribution to a printed test image is witin a defined range around a banding defect appearing in said printed test image;
- and
- generating compensation data for selected one or more of said identified nozzles.
7, The method of claim 1 furher comprising:
- modifying control signals associated said selected nozzles using said compensation data when printing an image.
An inlcjet printing system comprising:
- one or more print heads;
- and
- a controller able to identify one or more nozzles whose contribution to a printed test image is within a defined range around a banding defect appearing in said printed test image and to generate comnpensation data for selected ones of said identified nozzles.
The system of claim 9, further comprising a scajnier to scan said printed test image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.