| 摘要 |
<p>A print engine/controller suited to use with a drop on demand print head. The print engine/controller works with compressed page data having both JPEG contone image layers and a bi-level image plane compressed using a Group 4 facsimile protocol. It receives compressed image plane's and effects expansion and printing in a pipeline fashion. It consists of a high speed serial interface (27) (such as a standard IEEE 1394 interface), a standard JPEG decoder (28), a standard Group 4 Fax decoder (39), a halftoner/compositor unit (29), a tag encoder (30) by which to place infrared tags into a printed page, a line loader/formatter unit 31 feeding an interface 32 to the print head (33). The decoders (28, 39) and encoder (30) are buffered to the halftoner/compositor (29).</p> |
