Method of generating halftone print data for overlapping end portions of printhead chips

摘要

A method of generating halftone print data for overlapping end portions of a pair of consecutive printhead chips includes the step of generating continuous tone print data for an array of the printhead chips. An initial dither matrix to be applied to the continuous tone print data is generated. Overlap data representing an extent of overlap of the end portions is generated. The overlap data is applied to the initial dither matrix with a summation means to generate an output value. The output value is applied to the continuous tone print data.