Banding Artifact Reduction in Electrophotographic Printers by Using Pulse Width Modulation

International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 281-286

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDING ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTERS;

ALGORITHMS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; PRINTERS (COMPUTER); PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 1442329683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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