Patent ID: 8446640

Claim:
A method for adjusting an imaging parameter, comprising: operating a recording head to form a regular pattern of image swaths while forming an image on a recording media; operating the recording head to form a regular pattern of image features on the recording media, wherein the regular pattern of image features comprises a first set of image features that is formed while the imaging parameter is set to a first predetermined value and a second set of image features that is formed while the imaging parameter is set to a second predetermined value that is different from the first predetermined value, and wherein the image features in each of the first set of image features and the second set of image features are arranged on the recording media with a sub-scan spatial frequency that is equal to a non-integer multiple of a sub-scan spatial frequency of the image swaths in the regular pattern of image swaths; providing a scanner adapted to generate data while scanning over the regular pattern of image features formed on the recording media, wherein a first integer multiple of a sampling spatial frequency employed by the scanner during the scanning is equal to a second integer multiple of the sub-scan spatial frequency of each of the first set of image features and the second set of image features; analyzing the data to determine a quantified value representative of banding between the first set of image features and the second set of image features; and adjusting the imaging parameter based at least on the quantified value.