Abstract:
A scanning method of an image forming apparatus including free-scanning a page to be scanned, setting a scan data generation area to generate scan data on the free-scanned image, if a subsequent page is main-scanned, detecting a relative position of the scan data generation area from a scanned area of the main-scanned page, adjusting the scan data generation area using the detected relative position, and generating scan data for the adjusted scan data generation area, and an image forming apparatus to perform the same. Therefore, a plurality of pages can be precisely scanned or copied with a specific size.
Abstract:
A control method of an image forming apparatus is provided that includes: receiving a user command to perform a document analysis operation; generating scan data by scanning an input document, in response to the user command; setting a predefined menu operation language as the operation language for the document analysis operation, if no operation language is preset; and performing the document analysis operation based on the set operation language.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus to improve image quality. The image forming apparatus includes a window control unit to generate a window of a predetermined size using a lines per inch (LPI) value of a dithering mask and an angle, and to detect locations of a center reference pixel and neighboring reference pixels in the window, a weighting set unit to apply weighted values to the reference pixels based on locations of the detected center reference pixel and the neighboring reference pixels, and a control unit to determine a dot size of the center reference pixel corresponding to weighted values corresponding to locations of black pixels of the center reference pixel and neighboring reference pixels. Accordingly, image quality is improved by generating dots corresponding to a plurality of gray levels based on weighted values.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of compensating for defective nozzles. Accordingly, in an image forming apparatus having inkjet nozzles (i.e., an inkjet printer), image quality deterioration due to defective nozzles (i.e., nozzles that cannot discharge ink) may be compensated for by replacing data after moving a printer head to an optimum position. Image quality deterioration due to defective nozzles may also be compensated by replacing data to be printed after moving at he printer head to the optimum position.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and a printing method thereof, the printing method including: generating continuous tone data corresponding to an image area of print data and binary data corresponding to a text area of the print data; generating merged data based on the continuous tone data and the binary data; and performing a half-toning of the merged data to generate final data to be printed on a print medium.
Abstract:
A print system having an enhanced depth resolution of an image. The print system includes a host device to divide a gray image into basic block units, to determine whether the basic block units represent an edge area, to convert the gray image into binary data, and to output the converted gray image; and an image forming apparatus to determine whether the binary data received from the host device represents an edge area, to convert the binary data into a gray image according to the result of determination, and to print the gray image. As a result, depth resolution is enhanced, and print data transmission time is shortened.