Commercial inkjet printing is a complex system that poses advanced technical challenges. The relationship between the amount of ink deposited per unit area and light reflected due to the ink in the same unit area is important to understand various imaging characteristics associated with a printing system. The amount of ink deposited per unit area is referred to as mass deposition. Optical Density (OD) defines the light reflected by ink on paper. Well-known methods used to define mass deposition versus OD require extensive knowledge of the halftone. These techniques require detailed halftone information regarding the mass deposition precisely for each halftone pattern as well as for the halftone calibration. Often, halftone information is unavailable, and this causes barriers in characterization of printing systems. With the advent of industrial printing, it has become necessary to characterize printers with media other than paper and unconventional ink options [1]. This must not be hindered due to lack of drop count information of the fluid/polymer based on the ink or the media. The model has been used over a wide range, from the microscopic level of printing lines and dots to the macroscopic scale of halftones. It describes printing systems having different halftone designs, resolutions, printer speeds, calibration, multipass and multidrop printing.
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