J4 ›› 2010, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 41-48.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2010.01.008

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Spectral color calibration method for the multi-ink printer using the look-up table

WANG Ying1;ZENG Ping1,2;HE Xiu-fang1;LUO Xue-mei1   

  1. (1. Research Inst. of Computer Peripherals, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2.  School of Computer Science, Xi'an Shiyou Univ., Xi'an  710065, China)
  • Received:2009-06-08 Online:2010-02-20 Published:2010-03-29
  • Contact: WANG Ying E-mail:mailwangying@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

To achieve the color calibration in the multi-spectral image print output, a new calibration method for the multi-ink printer is proposed. By sampling in the multi-ink print color space, measuring the spectral reflectance of the samples and then transforming the reflectance data to a low-dimensional spectral space, a forward look-up table is established firstly. Then by sampling in the low-dimensional spectral space and using the nonlinear optimization to determine the mapping points of the samples in the printer color space, a backward look-up table is created. Meanwhile, optimization parameters are determined according to the samples, which improves the optimization accuracy and shortens the computing time. Finally a multi-linear interpolation method is carried out on the forward and backward look-up table to achieve the spectral color calibration of the multi-ink printer. Experiments show that compared with the spectral color calibration model methods, the new method increases the colorimetric and spectral precision by 40% and 44%, respectively, in forward calibration, and 51% and 41% in backward calibration. The time efficiency is improved by 96% in backward calibration.

Key words: spectral color calibration, multi-ink print, look-up table, nonlinear optimization, multi-linear interpolation, multi spectral image