Patent ID: 6483608
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A printer for printing a digital image onto photosensitive media, said printer comprising:an interface for receiving said digital image from an image source; a storage device connected to receive said digital image from said interface and for storing said image; an image illumination device connected to said storage device for displaying elements of said digital image on a surface of said image illumination device; a controller for directing said elements of said digital image to said image illumination device to display said elements of said digital image on said surface of said image illumination device; a color selection system for displaying a plurality of color components contained within said elements of said digital image at selected locations on said surface of said image illumination device; a graded index lens array mounted between said surface of said image illumination device and said photosensitive media, said graded index lens array for conducting said elements of said digital image displayed on said surface of said image illumination device to said media; a movement device for exposing each line of said media to a predetermined number of said elements of said digital image displayed on said surface of said image illumination device and a chromatic aberration compensation system for changing a total conjugate between said CRT and said media for each color component comprising mounting said image illumination device at an angle greater than zero between a face of said image illumination device and said photosensitive media wherein said angle is selected to provide a predetermined total conjugate for at least two of said color components.