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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1999
Kevin R Hudson, Mt. Circle Camas, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Color printheads in a color inkjet printer are in a fixed order in the scanning carriage, which causes the colors to be printed in a different order when the carriage is scanned in an opposite direction. The different print order may result in a perceptible change in hue between passes in bi-directional printing. Depleted shingle masks are substituted for the nominal ones, based on print direction, at the shingle masking stage, to compensate for print-direction-induced hue shift. A look-up table indexed by a composite color tone value providing a depletion probability and a halftoning error diffusion value are used in determining when depleted shingle masks are to be invoked.