Color Printer Characterization Using a Computational Geometry Approach

Author: Hardeberg Jon Yngve   Schmitt Francis  

Publisher: Society for Imaging Science and Technology

ISSN: 2166-9635

Source: Color and Imaging Conference, Vol.1997, Iss.1, 1997-01, pp. : 96-99

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Abstract

We propose a method for the colorimetric characterization of a printer which can also be applied to any other type of digital image reproduction device. The method is based on a computational geometry approach. It uses a 3D triangulation technique to build a tetrahedral partition of the printer color gamut volume and it generates a surrounding structure enclosing the definition domain. The characterization provides the inverse transformation from the device-independent color space CIELAB to the device-dependent color space CMY, taking into account both colorimetric properties of the printer, and color gamut mapping.