REPRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR PRINTING ON RECEIVING MATERIAL IN A SINGLE PASS PRINT STRATEGY

摘要

The invention concerns a reproduction apparatus for printing a digital image comprising a control unit and a print engine, where the digital image is constituted of pixels, each pixel having assigned a pixel value; the print engine comprising print elements for ejecting an amount of marking material on a receiving material according to a pixel value, the reproduction apparatus further comprising detection means for detecting a failing print element and the control unit comprising derivation means for deriving from the digital image before printing of the digital image for a print element at least one array of pixel values to be printed upon detection of a failing of said print element by the detection means by at least one other print element, and merging means for merging at least one of said at least one array of pixel values with the digital image upon detection of a failing print element for creating a corrected digital image to be printed. The invention also concerns a method for printing a digital image on a reproduction apparatus according to the invention.