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US 2006/0132583 A1Published application
Thermal printer temperature management
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorDavid Rich
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing thermal printhead thermal history temperature management by preprocessing target images are described. In one example, a thermal compensation process is applied to a target image to provide offset values in order to create a compensated image that is later printed without local printhead thermal compensation.
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A method for applying thermal compensation to a target image in an external processor comprising:
- obtaining compensation overlay data;
- obtaining the target image;
- performing a thermal compensation routine on the target image using the external processor to produce a compensated image using the compensation overlay data;
- and
- saving the compensated image.
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A method for producing a thermal compensation overlay comprising:
- obtaining printhead thermal data;
- obtaining thermal media data;
- and
- generating overlay data using the printhead data and the thermal media data.
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