Current inkjet printing systems are based on a RISC+ASIC architecture for image processing and printer control. Time critical control function such as print masking is implemented on an ASIC and computationally intensive tasks such as image processing and motion control are executed
on a RISC processor. This paper considers the development of a DSP based media handling and cartridge motion control system for an inkjet printer, in which a single high performance DSP is desired to execute the printer control as well as image processing tasks and print with the novel inkjet
printing approach of
A.V. Deshpande, M. Kamasak, K.L. Thoon, G.T.-C. Chiu, C. Bouman, J. Allebach, S. Fedigan, D. Schafer, C. Cole, "Design and Implementation of a DSP based Inkjet Printer Motion Control System for Dynamic Print Mode Control" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP17), 2001, pp 34 - 42, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2001.17.1.art00007_1