Patent ID: 8675239

Claim:
A method for printing a recording medium, comprising: providing digital data for a corresponding print page; during generation of a software generated bit map from said digital data and having image points corresponding to image points to be inked for generation of a latent image for a first print process or a second print process, inserting or omitting image points in said bit map for said first print process or said second print process in a direction of at least one main axis corresponding to an expected shrinkage of said recording medium along said main axis; printing the recording medium with a first toner image in the first print process; fixing the first toner image on the recording medium in a fixing device where said expected shrinkage occurs along said at least one main axis; and in the second print process, applying a second toner image on the recording medium wherein the first toner image or the second toner image is compressed or expanded to compensate for said shrinkage of the first toner image.