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Automatic registration and length adjustment

Patent 6456311 Issued on September 24, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject July 6, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 889066 filed on 07/06/2001

US Classes:

347/116, Registration101/181, Multiple couple399/301Registration

Examiners

Primary: Pendegrass, Joan H.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0 291 738 EP. 11/24/1988
  • 0 744 669 EP. 11/24/1996

International Class

G03L 015/01

Foreign Application Priority Data

1999-01-24 WO

Abstract

A method for registration of print separations in a printer comprising: (a) printing a first pattern, for which at least one image characteristic varies relatively weakly with misregistration, using at least one of first and second separations; (b) printing a second pattern, for which said at least one image characteristic varies relatively strongly with misregistration, using said at least one first and second separations; (c) determining said at least one image characteristic for the first and second patterns; and (d) correcting the mutual registration of said at least one first and second separations responsive to a difference in the determined at least one image characteristic for the first and second patterns.

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