Patent ID: 8605333

Claim:
Apparatus for depositing a texture on a receiver, comprising: a) a data source that provides multilevel input tint data values for a plurality of pixel sites; b) a lossy compressor that produces compressed multilevel tint data values from the multilevel input tint data values; c) a decompressor that produces multilevel decompressed tint data values from the compressed multilevel tint data values; d) a texture memory adapted to receive multilevel decompressed tint data values from the decompressor and provide corresponding multilevel texture pixel data values; e) a loader for loading into the texture memory a texture set including multilevel texture pixel data values for each of a plurality of textures, each texture in the texture set corresponding to a respective range of multilevel decompressed tint data values; and f) a print engine that deposits at each of a plurality of pixel sites on the receiver an amount of texture-forming material corresponding to multilevel texture pixel data values provided from the texture memory for the texture corresponding to the respective multilevel decompressed tint data values for the pixel sites.