Patent ID: 8649068

Claim:
A method for generating electronic banding compensation profiles, the method comprising: creating a banding compensation test pattern on a test page or a photoreceptor according to a digital test pattern using a printer or a marking station with a raster output scanner (ROS) having a rotating polygon with a plurality of reflective facets and at least one light source directing light toward the rotating polygon with an intensity controlled during scanning using a given one of the plurality of reflective facets according to a corresponding one of a plurality of facet-specific banding correction profiles, the banding compensation test pattern comprising a plurality of strips individually extending along a process direction and spaced from one another along a fast scan direction generally perpendicular to the process direction, where at least one of the strips includes a plurality of fiducial markings spaced from one another in the process direction to correlate the digital test pattern to a scanned test pattern; scanning the banding compensation test pattern to create banding compensation test pattern image data; using at least one processor, analyzing the banding compensation test pattern image data to determine facet-specific banding errors corresponding to individual strips of the banding compensation test pattern; and using the at least one processor, selectively adjusting at least one of the plurality of facet-specific banding correction profiles to at least partially counteract the determined facet-specific banding errors.