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US 2002/0118378 A1Published application
Hard copy color matching
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJanie W. Budell
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Abstract
A color swatch tool is printed out on different available printers on a print media of choice or on different available print media for a printer of choice. The tool includes a plurality of pallets having tiles of a hue in varying shades, or chroma values. The tool is adapted to a computer application program for creating color hard copy.
Claims11
A color matching tool device comprising:
- a set of color pallets;
- and
- each individual pallet of the set of color pallets having a subset of differing chroma value tiles for a predetermined hue, wherein said set of color pallets is printable from a predetermined computer application program.
A method for determining color output a hard copy apparatus, the method comprising:
- providing at least one, computer code based, set of color pallets, each set including a subset of differing chroma value tiles for a predetermined hue;
- and
- printing said set on each available print media.
A method for providing a color matching tool for color printing operations, the method comprising:
- providing at least one, computer code based, set of color pallets, each set including a subset of differing chroma value tiles for a predetermined hue;
- and
- printing said set on a each available color printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.