Patent ID: 11906915
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a marking material application device adapted to print a print image by applying marking material to print media;
a heating device adapted to heat the marking material on the print media; and
a controller adapted to:
determine an amount of marking material per unit area of the print image before rasterization of the print image by lowering resolution of the print image to a reduced resolution image and determining the amount of marking material per unit area based on image pixels of the reduced resolution image;
rasterize the print image to produce a bitmap of the print image after determining the amount of toner per unit area;
adjust an operating temperature of the heating device to a fusing temperature based on the amount of marking material per unit area of the print image;
cause the marking material application device to print the print image on the print media using the bitmap of the print image; and
cause the heating device to fuse the marking material to the print media at the fusing temperature.