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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2000
Douglas W. Couwenhoven, Fairport, NY (US);
Rodney L. Miller, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of multipass inkjet printing of images in response to digital images having code values includes providing an inkjet printer capable of printing at least two ink drops at each printing location during different passes, including a printhead which can select at least two different ink drop sizes, and selecting a number of passes for producing an image and providing a print mask having mask values which, in each pass, sequentially corresponds to predetermined pixels and, in response to the mask values and the code values of such pixels, operates the inkjet printer to select the ink drop size for each pixel in each pass so that the inkjet printer produces an image.