Method and apparatus for printing images
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorBahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani
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Abstract
The invention is a method and apparatus for printing images intended to appear to be of solid uniform color and intensity while conserving the amount of image-generating medium used to form the image. The method and apparatus form such images by continually reducing the amount of an image-generating medium deposited in a first portion of the image from a predetermined amount at an outer edge of the portion to a lesser amount at an inner edge of the first portion.
Claims19
A method for printing an image which is intended to appear to be of solid, uniform color and intensity, comprising the steps of:
- (a) defining such an image area on a printable medium;
- and
- (b) depositing an image-generating medium in said image area such that at least a first portion of said area is printed by continually reducing the amount of image-generating medium deposited in said first portion of said area from a predetermined amount at at least one outer edge of said first portion to a lesser amount at at least one virtual interior reduction edge of said first portion, said at least one outer edge and said at least one virtual interior reduction edge being separated by a first predetermined distance.
An apparatus for printing an image, comprising:
- means for defining an image area on a printable medium, said image area having at least one outer edge and a center;
- and
- means for depositing in said image area an image-generating medium such that the unit quantity of image-generating medium deposited on said printable medium is continuously reduced over a predetermined distance in a direction from at least one outer edge of said area toward about the center of said image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.