Banding artifact reduction in electrophotographic printers by using pulse width modulation

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 326-337

  Lin, Guo Yau ^a   Grice, Jimmy M ^a   Allebach, Jan P ^a   Chiu, George T C ^a   Bradburn, Wayne ^a   Weaver, Jeff ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; PRINTING; SCANNING;

BANDING; DRUM VELOCITY FLUCTUATION; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC LASER PRINTER; INTERFERENCE GRATING; NON-UNIFORM LINE SPACING; OPTICAL ENCODER; OPTICAL PHOTOCONDUCTOR;

PRINTERS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0036658738     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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