Fast approach for toner saving

Ilia V. Safonov; Ilya V Kurilin; Michael N. Rychagov; Hokeun Lee; Sangho Kim; Donchul Choi

doi:10.1117/12.872123

25 January 2011 Fast approach for toner saving

Ilia V. Safonov, Ilya V Kurilin, Michael N. Rychagov, Hokeun Lee, Sangho Kim, Donchul Choi

Proceedings Volume 7866, Color Imaging XVI: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 786618 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872123
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

Reducing toner consumption is an important task in modern printing devices and has a significant positive ecological impact. Existing toner saving approaches have two main drawbacks: appearance of hardcopy in toner saving mode is worse in comparison with normal mode; processing of whole rendered page bitmap requires significant computational costs. We propose to add small holes of various shapes and sizes to random places inside a character bitmap stored in font cache. Such random perforation scheme is based on processing pipeline in RIP of standard printer languages Postscript and PCL. Processing of text characters only, and moreover, processing of each character for given font and size alone, is an extremely fast procedure. The approach does not deteriorate halftoned bitmap and business graphics and provide toner saving for typical office documents up to 15-20%. Rate of toner saving is adjustable. Alteration of resulted characters' appearance is almost indistinguishable in comparison with solid black text due to random placement of small holes inside the character regions. The suggested method automatically skips small fonts to preserve its quality. Readability of text processed by proposed method is fine. OCR programs process that scanned hardcopy successfully too.

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Ilia V. Safonov, Ilya V Kurilin, Michael N. Rychagov, Hokeun Lee, Sangho Kim, and Donchul Choi "Fast approach for toner saving", Proc. SPIE 7866, Color Imaging XVI: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 786618 (25 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872123

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