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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 1990
Filed:
May. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seishi Ohmori, Tokyo, JP;
Wayne F Niskala, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ;
Abstract
Thermal printing apparatus for forming a continuous tone dye image composed of dye image pixels each image pixel having a different possible dye density level. The thermal printing apparatus comprises a thermal print head including N heating elements, each heating element being addressed during a consecutive heating cycle. No more than L consecutive heating elements are addressed during a given heating cycle and at least one different heating element is addressed during the next heating cycle wherein N is at least equal to 2 times L and L and N are integers.