Patent ID: 7061616

Claim:
An optical transceiver for measuring optical density of a toned image, said optical transceiver comprising: a) an at least bifurcated optical bundle having at least a first branch and a second branch and a common end, each of said first and second branches having a first plurality of fibers and a second plurality of fibers, respectively, wherein fibers from said first branch and fibers from said second branch are intermixed in said common end; b) a source of radiation, wherein said radiation source is optically aligned with said first branch; c) a detector for detecting said radiation and providing data to a processor, wherein said detector is optically aligned with said second branch; and d) a toner receptor having a surface, wherein said toned image is on said surface and said toner receptor is optically aligned with said common end and the processor using a color specific look up table to evaluating density in plated toner on said toner receptor.