COMPENSATION OF DEFECTIVE IMAGE FORMATION ELEMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce deterioration in printing quality due to defects of printing elements of a printer while maintaining printing throughput. SOLUTION: It is a method (300) for forming an image by using at least one linear array (22) of the image formation elements (30). Defective ones among the image formation elements (30) associated with a particular color are detected (302). A first defective image formation element compensation process is performed (308) for portions of the image data (120) that are associated with a first predetermined number or fewer adjacent defective image formation elements (30). A different second defective image formation element compensation process is performed (310) for portions of the image data (120) that are associated with a second predetermined number or more adjacent defective image formation elements (30). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT