Color Desktop Printer Technology provides an overview of the current state of the technology, examining both current and emerging applications.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of color desktop printers
• Surveys the current dominant platforms, explaining their principles, component technologies, and operation in detail
• Includes contributions from experts at such industrial leaders as Fuji, Fuji Xerox, and Hewlett Packard
• Evaluates the business and market aspects of desktop printers
• Introduces color management and the emerging technology of spectral printing

Contents

Fundamentals

• Introduction to Printing
• Relief Printing
• Planographic Printing
• Recess Printing
• Image Quality of Printed Text and Images; J.S. Arney
• The Meanings of Image Quality
• The Printing of Text
• Color Inks and Color Mixing
• The Printing of Pictorial Images
• The Printing of Text
• Making Halftone Images
• Image Quality and the Noise Power Spectrum
• The Business and Market for Desktop Printers; F. Romano
• Historical
• Computer Printing Evolves
• The Printer Market

Platforms

• Inkjet
• History and Introduction
• Inkjet Printing Technologies
• Ink Storage and Delivery
• Printhead Service and Maintenance
• Inkjet Inks
• Inkjet Media
• Print Modes
• High-Fidelity Color
• Closure
• Laser Printer; F. Nakaya and Y. Fukase
• Marking Technology
• Toner
• Media and Consumables
• Dye Thermal-Transfer Printer; N. Matsushiro
• Driving Mechanism
• Details of Dye Sublimation Printer
• Details of Wax Melt Printers
• Thermal Head
• Various Improved Printer Engines
• Other Printers Based on Thermal Transfer
• Controller Aspect
• User Aspects
• Stability Issues
• Film-Based Printers; T. Kimura, T. Kojima, M. Kubo, A. Igarashi and A. Doi
• Photo Printers
• Emerging Technology

The Management of Color

• Color Management; M.R. Rosen
• ICC Color Management General Approach
• ICC Color Management
• History of ICC
• Desktop Spectral-Based Printing; M.R. Rosen, F.H. Imai, Y. Chen, L.A. Taplin, and R.S. Berns
• Current Metameric Systems
• Traditional vs. Spectral-Based Systems
• Spectral Image Acquisition System
• Spectral Color Management
• Spectral Model for Printers

Index

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