2-D color calibration technology.(Industrial Emerging Technologies)

R & D, January, 2004

Generating stable and consistent output from printers is one of the main challenges faced by today's color printer manufacturers. To attain that consistency, vendors typically offer different color correction solutions, including a calibration step that keeps the printer in a consistent and stable state.

Easily executed by consumers, such a step typically uses inexpensive, simple I-D transforms. These transforms, which consist of mathematical instructions, control the quantity of toner and ink needed, adjusting each of a printer's four primary colors--cyan, magenta, yellow and black ...