| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7133143 |
Printing method employing printer-independent print quality characteristics |
November 7, 2006 |
| A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a selected object type to |
| 7126710 |
Printing system employing printer-independent print quality characteristics |
October 24, 2006 |
| A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a selected object type to |
| 7085000 |
Printing system and method |
August 1, 2006 |
| A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a selected object type to |
| 6671064 |
Object optimized printing system and method |
December 30, 2003 |
| An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page |
| 6429948 |
Object optimized printing system and method |
August 6, 2002 |
| An object optimized printing system and method includes a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a plurality of pages in the page description language and |
| 6341020 |
Anamorphic object optimized function application for printer defect pre-compensation |
January 22, 2002 |
| Every printing system has characteristic defects which detract from high quality printing. Xerographic printing systems show defects such as banding, mottled colors in large fill areas, trail-edge deletion and starvation where toner concentrations drop at certain color edges, misregi |
| 6327043 |
Object optimized printing system and method |
December 4, 2001 |
| An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page |
| 6304278 |
Achieving system stability in anamorphic printer defect pre-compensation |
October 16, 2001 |
| Every printing system has characteristic defects which detract from high quality printing. Xerographic printing systems show defects such as banding, mottled colors in large fill areas, trail-edge deletion and starvation where toner concentrations deplete at certain color edges, misr |
| 6275302 |
Color printing yielding a background dependent neutral gray image (i.e. intelligent gray) |
August 14, 2001 |
| A digital color printing method and system is described which automatically detects when a neutral grey object is commanded to be printed, and changes the composition of the neutral color depending on the previous value of the neutral grey object and on the presence or absence of non-bla |
| 6259536 |
Color printing yielding a background dependent black image (i.e. intelligent black) |
July 10, 2001 |
| A digital color printing method and system is described which automatically detects when a black object is commanded to be printed, and changes the composition of the black color depending on the presence or absence of non-black colorants in the background color at the position on the pa |
| 6256104 |
Object optimized printing system and method |
July 3, 2001 |
| An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page |
| 6088122 |
Creation of colorant controlled neutral black objects in a bit map printing system |
July 11, 2000 |
| A method is described for printing a colorant controlled neutral black object in a bitmap-based digital color printing system. The method is useful in systems where the black colorant is not sufficiently opaque to hide non-neutral combinations of non-black colorants mixed into the black |
| 6006013 |
Object optimized printing system and method |
December 21, 1999 |
| An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page |
| 6005670 |
Efficient identification of predicted printer defects for anamorphic pre-compensation |
December 21, 1999 |
| Every printing system has characteristic defects which detract from high quality printing. Xerographic printing systems show defects such as banding, mottled colors in large fill areas, trail-edge deletion and starvation where toner concentrations drop at certain color edges, misregi |
| 5960163 |
Color bitmap merging of black objects using partially correlated separation maximum value clippi |
September 28, 1999 |
| A bitmap-based digital color printing method and system is described which automatically detects when a black object is to be printed and changes the Bit Block Transfer (BitBlt) method so that the black color becomes a mixture of black plus the background colorants, limited both by a cli |
| 5914674 |
Detector and alarm apparatus and system |
June 22, 1999 |
| An alarm apparatus includes two sensor circuits. One of the circuits is configured to emit an audible warning upon the sensing of an adverse condition. The other circuit functions to scan for a radio signal and, when one is detected, transmit a further radio signal. The apparatus can |
| 5848225 |
Color bitmap merging of black objects using separation maximum value clipping |
December 8, 1998 |
| A bitmap-based digital color printing method and system is described which automatically detects when a black object is to be printed and changes the Bit Block Transfer (BitBlt) method so that the black color becomes a mixture of black plus the background colorants, limited by an allowed |
| 5848180 |
Color bitmap generation with background dependent black objects |
December 8, 1998 |
| A bitmap-based digital color printing method and system is described which automatically detects when a black object is commanded to be printed, and changes the Bit Block Transfer (BitBlt) method so that the resultant composition of the black color at each point in the bitmap is responsi |
| 5784172 |
Automatic algorithmic determination of process black over a color field |
July 21, 1998 |
| A digital color printing method and system is described which automatically determines a mixture of colorants to compose a process black color, taking into account relevent printing characteristics of a color printer and the background color at the point on the page at which the process |
| 5754302 |
Color order in predicting pile height constraints in a xerographic color printing system |
May 19, 1998 |
| A digital color printing method is described for printing process black over a background color, which makes use of color order information--that is, the order in which process colorants are transferred to paper--in determining and satisfying pile height constraints for optimal quality. |
| 5737088 |
Non uniform modification of process black colorants to achieve conflicting quality requirements |
April 7, 1998 |
| A digital color printing method is described for printing process black color over a background color, which modifies individual values of the process colors in a process black independent of other process colors whenever the black colorant is sufficiently opaque. An example described |
| 5327201 |
Simulated photographic prints using a reflective coating |
July 5, 1994 |
| Simulated photographic prints are created using xerographic imaging. A transparent carrier having a xerographically formed mirror image fused thereto is bonded to a plastic substrate through the use of heat and pressure. The transparent carrier and the plastic substrate form the fini |
| 5113356 |
Colorizing black and white documents |
May 12, 1992 |
| A software package is described which resides in a color printing system and which automatically intercepts and colorizes black and white documents (or re-colors color documents, if desired) that are sent to the color printer. The description includes pictorial flow charts and segments o |
