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2) Averaging
When scanning at lower resolution, the quality of output tends to be deteriorated. This is
because data thining occures more frequently at lower resolution. Averaging is a process to
average the data to be thinned and the data to be actually output to prevent the image
deterioration.
Figure 2-16
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Averaged data=(A+B+C+D)/4
