Patent ID: 8714691

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a print media; one or more non-objectionable test patterns formed or printed on the print media; an integrated imaging system, comprising: a housing; an opening in the housing for receiving light reflected from the moving print media; a folded optical assembly in the housing that receives the reflected light and transmits the light a predetermined distance; and an image sensor within the housing that receives the light and captures one or more images of the one or more non-objectionable test patterns; a storage device for storing one or more reference test pattern signals; and a processor for producing a test pattern signal for each of the one or more non-objectionable test patterns formed or printed on the print media, for comparing each test pattern signal to a respective one of the one or more reference test pattern signals to determine whether a size variation has occurred in the print media, for determining compensation values in response to the size variation in the print media, and for using the compensation values to adjust the operational settings for the printing system.