Compression in a printer pipeline

Author

Yovanof, Gregory S.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

Oct. 30 1995-Nov. 1 1995

Firstpage

219

Abstract

The role of data compression within a printer pipeline is studied. Hardcopy image compression poses a unique challenge due to the presence of halftoned data used to render continuous tone images on limited resolution devices. We present a quantitative comparison of the compressibility of several halftone patterns. The performance of a variety of lossless and lossy compression algorithms is evaluated. We also address the effect that certain image processing operations, like scaling and enhancement, have on the compression performance.

Keywords

data compression; entropy; image coding; image enhancement; printers; compressibility; continuous tone images; data compression; enhancement; halftoned data; hardcopy image compression; limited resolution devices; lossless compression algorithms; lossy compression algorithms; performance; printer pipeline; scaling; Data compression; Graphics; Image coding; Image converters; Image processing; Image resolution; Page description languages; Pipelines; Printers; Rendering (computer graphics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 1995. 1995 Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7370-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1995.540544

Filename

540544