Data compression for digital color electrophotographic printer with Evolvable Hardware.

This paper describes a data compression system using Evolvable Hardware (EHW) for digital color electrophotographic (EP) printers. EP printing is an important technology within digital printing, which is currently having a significant impact on the printing and publishing industry. Although, it requires data-compression to reduce the cost for transferring and storing large EP images, traditional techniques can not handle this data-compression well. This paper explains how EHW can be used as a compression system. EHW can change the compression method according to the characteristics of the image. The proposed EHW-based compression system can compress approximately twice as much data as JBIG, the current international standard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]