Patent ID: 8009184
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A method for thermal printing of a digital image on a thermal imaging member with a thermal print head comprising at least one print head element, comprising: (A) identifying a density value of a color component of a pixel in the digital image, the pixel comprising N color components, each of the color components associated with one of N printing segments of a printing line time where N>1; (B) identifying a print head element temperature; (C) identifying at least one amount of energy supplied to the print head element during each of N−1 previous printing segments; (D) identifying an energy computation function associated with the color component; (E) identifying at least one function of the amount of energy identified in (C); (F) identifying an input energy amount using the energy computation function and the density value, the print head element temperature, and the at least one function of the amount of energy; (G) supplying energy equal to the input energy amount to the print head element; wherein (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) are performed by a processor executing computer program instructions tangibly stored on a computer-readable medium.