Patent ID: 6997532

Claim:
A method of imaging a digital display onto an image plane, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing a digital display, a plurality of lenses, and an image plane defined by a photosensitive medium, said digital display, said plurality of lenses, and said photosensitive medium spaced along an optical axis extending from said digital display through said plurality of lenses, and toward said photosensitive medium such that a digital image provided by said display may be brought into focus onto said photosensitive medium by said plurality of lenses, and one of said plurality of lenses is a transposable lens, said transposable lens capable of being transposed out of said optical axis during the operation of a printer; b) illuminating said digital display with a first digital image data set for a fixed period of time, whereby light from each pixel of said digital display exposes a pixel image on said photosensitive medium, turning off said digital display; c) transposing for a first time, said transposable lens a fixed distance, said fixed distance being such that each of said pixel images exposed onto said photosensitive medium is shifted by a distance equal to the width of one pixel image; d) illuminating said digital display, with a second digital image data set, for a second fixed period of time, turning off said digital display; e) transposing, for a second time, said transposable lens said fixed distance; f) illuminating said digital display, with a third digital image data set, for a third fixed period of time, turning off said digital display; and g) whereby said method of imaging increases the perceived resolution of the digital image focused onto said photosensitive medium.