摘要 |
A swath printing system such as multi-color inkjet printing which uses lower resolution printheads of at least 300 dpi nozzle spacing to achieve high resolution output of at least 600 dpi addressability in both the X (media advance) and Y (carriage scan) axes. Synchronized depletion masks for area fills and edge enhancement is provided which is plot independent and prevents drop overlap. It is especially suited for multi-pass print modes since each row has a balanced number of pixels, and there are no rows which have no "on" pixels. The depletion includes separate depletion masks and rules for edge enhancement as compared to area fills. Each color plane is depleted separately, but subject to the same depletion rules and masks. A separate depletion step provides for narrowing the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the figure to be printed.
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