Method for printing with adaptive distortion control
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsThomas Nathaniel Tombs, Donald Saul Rimai, Roland Robert Schindler, II
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Abstract
Printing methods are provided. In one method, printing an inkjet image using a liquid hydrophilic inkjet ink onto a surface of a semi-absorbent recording medium generating a toner image having toner particles arranged conforming to the inkjet image and transferring the toner image onto the recording medium where an unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink is present on the recording medium. The toner particles manage unabsorbed volumes of the inkjet ink to protect the recording medium from image artifacts that can be created by an unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink on the surface without a liquid management toner image.
Claims8
A method for operating a printing system comprising:
- printing an inkjet image on a receiver using a hydrophilic ink;
- capturing an image of the inkjet print after a predetermined period of absorption of said ink into said receiver;
- identifying local areas of the image of the inkjet print that have reached a threshold level of non-uniform distortion and where unabsorbed volumes of the ink remain for absorption;
- generating a liquid management toner image having toner particles that will transfer onto the receiver in register with the identified areas of the image of the inkjet print;
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- transferring the liquid management toner image onto the receiver in register with the identified areas;
- wherein the liquid management toner image reduces absorption of ink in the receiver in the identified areas to control an extent of distortion in the identified areas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.