Exposure scheme for minimizing microbanding inslm-based printers
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1. An improved method of printing comprising:
- a. determining a gray scale to be transferred to a photosensitive surface;
b. illuminating a spatial light modulator with a light source, wherein said light source has a predetermined light intensity cycle;
c. time delaying and integrating said pattern onto said photosensitive surface with a predetermined number of exposures; and
d. rotating the bits of a given line number around said light intensity cycle such that the number of bits rotated depends upon said line number and said predetermined number of exposures.
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Abstract
An improved method for time delay and integration printing for gray scale. A gray scale represented by a bit pattern is provided for time delay and integration printing onto a photosensitive substrate. The pattern (12) is rotated about the light intensity cycle of the light source such that microbands in the final image are minimized or eliminated and sent to a spatial light modulator (10) for transfer to a printing substrate.
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1. An improved method of printing comprising:
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a. determining a gray scale to be transferred to a photosensitive surface; b. illuminating a spatial light modulator with a light source, wherein said light source has a predetermined light intensity cycle; c. time delaying and integrating said pattern onto said photosensitive surface with a predetermined number of exposures; and d. rotating the bits of a given line number around said light intensity cycle such that the number of bits rotated depends upon said line number and said predetermined number of exposures. - View Dependent Claims (3)
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2. An improved method of time delay and integration printing with light source modulation, where a gray scale is converted by a look up table to a bit pattern for illumination on a spatial light modulator, wherein said improvement comprises;
rotating said bit pattern about said light source'"'"'s light intensity cycle.
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