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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary A Dir, Fairport, NY (US);
Fred W Schmidlin, Pittsford, NY (US);
John D Sotack, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph F Stephany, Williamson, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358455 ; 358458 ; 358460 ; 358298 ; 346155 ;
Abstract
A system for printing gray levels without needing to use halftone cells. An architecture is disclosed for controlling printing elements to deposit a variable amount of toner onto a given area of paper. The architecture includes a pixel memory for determining a gray level for each pixel in a row, and a counter for incrementing a gray level. A comparator compares a memory location corresponding to a certain pixel with the output of the counter, and the comparison result is then applied to a printing element corresponding to the pixel.