1. A method for producing an output image from a digital image, said method comprising: receiving a digital image in an image output device having a predetermined number of profiles of smear in a travel direction, and one or more secondary profiles of smear in respective secondary directions different than said travel direction; generating a custom filter from said profiles of smear, wherein the filter is non-symmetrical in said travel direction and is a filter having a maximum increase in sharpening in the travel direction, and modifying said custom filter based on the secondary profiles of smear in the secondary directions, wherein the modified custom filter performs sharpening in the secondary directions; digitally filtering said digital image based on said filter; moving an image carrier in said travel direction relative to an image generator; and during said moving, outputting said filtered image to the image generator and applying an image from the image generator to said image carrier to produce the output image.