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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1985
Filed:
May. 12, 1983
Jerome G Spitzner, Byron, NY (US);
Michael D Stoudt, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A plurality of constituent electrostatic color-separation images are produced in sequence for subsequent toner-development and superimposition and at least one developed constituent image is used to color-correct a succeeding constituent image which is not yet developed. Apparatus and method embodiments described herein utilize light which is diffusely-reflected from toner on a developed photoconductor image sector to expose in register, and thus color-correct, an undeveloped electrostatic image on another photoconductor sector. Such auxiliary 'scatter-masking' exposures can be predeterminedly or selectively adjusted in tone scale.