Eastman-kodak Company

Richard C Reem

Douglas W Couwenhoven

Joseph Anthony Manico

Steven A Billow

Kevin Edward Spaulding

Karen J Klingman

Yongcai Wang

Richard P Szajewski

James Albert Reczek

Huijuan D Chen

Allan Wexler

James Edward Sutton

Christopher Rueby

James A Mott

David J Giacherio

Yang Shi

Michael J Carmody

Richard A Dibiase

A method of printing with an inkjet printer, the method includes moving the carriage along a first carriage scan direction while the second drop ejector array ejects drops of anti-curl solution onto the portion of recording medium providing a delay time that is greater than 15 milliseconds after the second drop ejector ejects drops of anti-curl solution at a given location on the portion of recording medium and before printing with the first drop ejector array moving the carriage along a second carriage scan direction while the first drop ejector array ejects drops of ink in an image-wise fashion onto the given location of the portion of recording medium.

Method of printing with anti-curl solution

A printing method includes applying at least one of a plurality of pigmented colored inks to a receiving surface. A colorless ink is applied to the receiving surface. A majority of the colorless ink is ejected from of first nozzles on a printhead used for ejecting the colorless ink. At least 30% of an area on the receiving surface, which is passed over by the first nozzles, is covered with the colorless ink during a single pass of the printhead over the area.

Inkjet printing method for colorless ink using colorless ink printhead masks dependent on colored ink printing

A method for reducing banding artifacts for bi-directional multi-pass printing on an inkjet printer utilizing a printhead with a plurality of ink nozzles includes defining different print masks to be used for leftward and rightward printing passes such that both the order of ink laydown and the timing between ink laydown on different passes are each substantially constant for a given horizontal position within the image, independent of the vertical position within the image; and printing an input image on the inkjet printer with the defined print masks using a bi-directional multi-pass print mode.

Bi-directional print masking

An inkjet printer, includes an ink containing a print uniformity improving polymer obtained by chain copolymerizing at least the following ethylenically unsaturated monomers:

Inkjet inks having improved print uniformity

A method for modifying an input digital image having one or more color channels corresponding to one or more color inks and a protective ink channel corresponding to a substantially clear protective ink, each channel having an (x,y) array of pixel values, to form a modified digital image including computing a first value responsive to corresponding pixel values of the one or more color channels; computing a second value responsive to the corresponding pixel value of the protective ink channel; and modifying the corresponding pixel value of the protective ink channel responsive to the first and second values.

Inkjet printing using protective ink

A method of computing swath data in response to a digital image having a plurality of rows and columns of pixels, each pixel having a multitone code value, the swath data suitable for commanding an inkjet printer containing at least one printhead having plurality of nozzles, wherein the inkjet printer is capable of ejecting ink drops in response to the swath data.

Multilevel print masking method

A pigment-based ink jet ink set and image-recording element combination is described, wherein the ink jet image-recording element has a gloss value of at least 5 when measured at 60&#xb0;, and wherein each ink in the ink set has a normalized differential specular reflectance, N&#x394;R(X), of less than 1.25. N&#x394;R(X) is defined as the maximum value within a set of N&#x394;R(Xn) values in which each N&#x394;R(Xn) is the normalized specular reflectance for a density patch of a printed test image. The printed test image consists of a series of at least eleven density patches printed such that the ink laydown of the patches increases incrementally, from no ink laydown to a maximum level generating a density of at least 1.5; and wherein N&#x394;R(Xn) for each patch is determined according to:where, over the visible spectral region between 390 nm and 720 nm for patch Xn, R(Xn) is the maximum, R(Xn) is the minimum, and R(Xn) is the average specular reflectance.

Combination ink set/image-recording element for ink jet printing

Ink set for ink jet printing

A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making the same. The method includes the steps of: providing an image retaining media having an image forming side and a back side; printing a plurality of images on the image forming side of the image retaining media, the image retaining media being composed into first and second image retaining sections and; folding the image retaining media along a predetermined line, the first and second image retaining sections being positioned such that when the image retaining media is folded, the back side of the first and second image retaining sections will be substantially co-extensive with each other so as to form the first and second sides of the album leaf.

Dual sided photographic album leaf and method of making

A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making. The method includes the steps of:

A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making the same. The method includes the steps of:

The invention relates to a light sensing device comprising a spironaphthoxazine dispersed in a layer of gelatin on a base material.

Light sensitive device

A method for producing photographic images from a photographic film strip, of the type that uses density values of the photographic film strip to determine the density values of the produced photographic images, the improvement comprising the steps of:

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Hilton, NY, United States of America

Richard C Reem