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US 5,915,858 AGranted
Organizing pixels of different density levels for printing human readable information on CDs
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorXin Wen
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Abstract
A printing apparatus and printing method for separating, image processing, and printing image objects on CD labels according to whether the image objects require multiple or two density levels.
Claims7
A method of organizing human readable information and printing such information on a CD using a modulated laser beam, comprising the steps of:
- a) receiving pixels corresponding to the human readable pixels to be printed;
- b) arranging the human readable pixels into predetermined locations to be printed on the CD;
- c) separating the human readable pixels into pixels which require continuous tone printing and those requiring two density levels;
- d) image processing the two density levels and the continuous tone printing pixels;
- e) arranging the image processed pixels so that they are in a printable form;
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- f) laser printing the continuous tone printing pixels and the two density levels pixels in the predetermined locations.
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A method of organizing and printing human readable pixels for printing on a CD having a recording layer, comprising the steps of:
- a) receiving pixels corresponding to the human readable pixels to be printed;
- b) arranging the human readable pixels into predetermined locations to be printed on the CD;
- c) separating the human readable pixels into pixels which require continuous tone printing and those requiring two levels of density;
- d) image processing the two density level and the continuous tone printing pixels;
- e) arranging the image processed pixels so that they are in a printable form;
- f) providing a colorant transfer device in colorant transferable relationship to a surface of the CD;
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- g) transferring colorant from the colorant transfer device in accordance with the image processed two level and continuous tone printing pixels to the CD recording layer to thereby provide a human readable pixels in the predetermined locations.
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