Many digital color printers are based on electrophotographic technology. Many have already been introduced to the market place and their quality and productivity issues are addressed using optical sensing and modern feedback controls. The integration of computing, imaging, marking and controls technology has created modern color printing & publishing systems, such as the iGen3. In this paper, we introduce to the evolution of controls that has taken place in digital electrophotographic printers from an automation perspective developed to achieve improved performance, and then describe briefly the next generation control advances in the pipeline waiting to be deployed in the market place.
Lalit K. Mestha, "Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP20), 2004, pp 578 - 585, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2004.20.1.art00014_2