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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2006
Applicant:
Scott Michael Heydinger, Lexington, KY (US);
Inventor:
Scott Michael Heydinger, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of printing dots in an area on a page using a plurality of printing passes of a printhead over the area, includes processing continuous tone data representing an image through N halftoning iterations to generate N halftone patterns of dots for the area; and printing each individual halftone pattern of the N halftone patterns during the plurality of printing passes, with each individual halftone pattern of the N halftone patterns being printed on a different printing pass of the plurality of printing passes over the area.