Digital image trapping system
CA 2210596 C · Owner: Linder, Stephen F. · Inventors: Ebner, Fritz F.; Birnbaum, David; Linder, Stephen F.
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A system for trapping of a dark image object on a lighter colored background is disclosed. In a system using a page description language including overprint operators black image areas (such as text, lines graphic objects and the like) can be set to overprint colored background areas in a manner that eliminates rendered image defects including page-colored "halo" effect that can occur when the cutout background area underlying the black object is misregistered with the black object that was intended to cover the cutout area. In other systems, the present invention may be employed as a disabling of the undercolor removal system of a colored area that would otherwise be present under the …
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- Filed July 16, 1997 and granted January 30, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 16, 2017.
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