Many image processing systems, including those for printing applications, need sampling conversions for the representation of an image from one lattice to another. For example in the case of printing, classical halftoning requires new sample values on the halftone lattice. Although often considered as a straightforward procedure, resampling can cause so-called sampling moire due to aliasing. Th...

Reproducing Color Images with Custom Inks by Eric J. Stollnitz University of Washington Advisor Associate Professor David H. Salesin Computer Science and Engineering Chairperson of Supervisory Committee Professor Loyce M. Adams Applied Mathematics This dissertation investigates the general problem of reproducing color images on an offset printing press using custom inks in any combination and n...

An algorithm is described to select a set of six inks from a given ink database for a spectral-based six-color printing system which minimizes metamerism. Since there are C(n, 6) ink combinations for an ink database containing n inks, the number of ink combinations is a geometric figure when n is large. There are obviously impossible ink combinations which can be removed analytically. Vector co...

In modern packaging, printing industry, due to effects of the properties of the strip itself and the ambient light, strip background color and the color of the printing line, the low contrast boundaries of the strip on both sides and so on, the traditional digital qualitative detection and control to the correction system does not meet the comprehensive requirements. This paper aims to study th...

© New Findings in Security Printing and Imaging Steven Simske, Guy Adams, Jason Aronoff, Margaret Sturgill HP Laboratories HPL-2009-328 security printing, barcode compression, down-sampling, color Tiles: In the past three NIP conferences, we have presented novel techniques for embedding security information into the variable data printing (VDP) for labels, documents and packaging. Recently, we ...

Due to the increasing popularity and affordability of color imaging devices, color characterization for these devices becomes an important subject. In other words, a set of color profile(s) needs to be generated for each device to transform the device dependent color space to a device independent one. This paper will concentrate on color characterization of scanners. Up to now, most scanner cha...

The present paper discusses the concept of subtractive color mixing widely used in color hardcopy applications and shows that a more realistic concept would be “spectral mixing”: the physical description of the coloration of light by printed surfaces comes from the mixing of light components selectively absorbed by inks or dyes during their patch within the printing materials. Some classical re...

The linearization curve generation is an important step in printer color characterization. The typical purpose of the linearization curves in conventional four ink printing is to compensate for dot overlapping and dot size variations and therefore to accommodate the non-linearity of the printing process. In CcMmYK “photo” printing, the introduction of light cyan and magenta inks presents new ch...

The use of metamerism index & color inconstancy index is studied for approval of spot colors used in decorative gravure products, especially spot colors, which are viewed under different light sources at the customer’s end. This work shows that the metamerism index is not sufficient for approval of spot colors, because it doesn’t provide any idea about how colors will transform under different ...