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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2010
Christopher Rueby, North Chili, NY (US);
Christopher Rueby, North Chili, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for printing images on an inkjet printer having grayscale print and color print modes, comprising performing an inspection process to inspect lines of image data in an inspection region downstream from a current swath of image data to determine a print mode for a future swath of image data. The inspection process includes inspecting the lines of image data in the inspection region according to a predetermined inspection sequence, determining whether an inspected line contains any pixels to be printed with color ink, and if so terminating the inspection process and designating that the future swath is to be printed with the color print mode; otherwise, if none of the lines are found to contain any pixels to be printed with color ink, designating the future swath to be printed with the grayscale print mode.