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    • 6. 发明公开
    • TECHNIQUE FOR PRINTING A COLOR IMAGE
    • 方法打印彩色图像
    • EP1479220A1
    • 2004-11-24
    • EP02731872.4
    • 2002-05-16
    • POLAROID CORPORATION
    • BOUCHARD, AlainDEYOUNG, AnemarieTELFER, Stephen, J.VETTERLING, William, T.
    • H04N1/50
    • H04N1/506B41J2/2132
    • A technique for optimizing or enhancing color images. Embodiments are disclosed for creating an enhanced color image, including the enhancement of perceived color uniformity. In a 'dot-on-dot' registration scheme for producing color images, the dots need to be precisely superimposed on each other to provide optimum or enhanced images. The dot-on-dot registration produced by a single head thermal printer is generally acceptable, but a single head machine is very slow because multiple passes (reciprocation) are required to lay down multiple colors of dots. In a much faster multi-head or tandem thermal imaging system a serious problem of dot misalignment may cause moire patterns or other visual artifacts in the color images produced by dot patterns. A solution to this problem is disclosed herein which intentionally misregisters superimposed dots in a novel and particular manner to achieve image optimization. In a particular embodiment a first thermal print head has a first number of thermal elements energized at a first rate and a second thermal print head has a second number of thermal elements energized at a second rate. The numbers of thermal elements and rates of energization are selected to cause intentional misregistration at a high spatial frequency which is unnoticeable to the naked eye of a viewer of the image, thereby masking any unintentional mechanical misalignment of the print heads while maintaining imperceptible the intentional misregistraton of the solution to the problem.