Printing system color validation swatch methods and systems
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsKevin Joseph St. Martin, Barry K. Ayash, Adam Andrzej Gierczak
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems of characterizing a color rendering performance of a printing system. According to one exemplary method, a user operated UI provides instructions to a printing system to automatically execute a color validation swatch process during the execution of a print job. The user provided instructions provide the parameters necessary to configure the execution of the color validation process.
Claims24
A method of characterizing a color rendering performance of a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including a UI (User Interface), a controller and a printing device, the method comprising:
- a) receiving one or more user selectable instructions from the UI to execute a color validation swatch process, wherein the user selectable instructions provide parameters to configure the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- b) executing the color validation swatch process wherein the execution of the color validation swatch process includes one or more color validation swatches rendered during the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- c) sequentially compiling the rendered color validation swatches;
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- d) inspecting the compiled rendered color validation swatches to characterize the color rendering performance of the printing apparatus.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a UI (User Interface);
- a printing device;
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- a controller operatively connected to the UI and the printing device, the controller configured to store computer readable instructions, that when executed by the controller, cause the controller to perform a method of characterizing the color rendering performance of the printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- a) receiving one or more user selectable instructions from the UI to execute a color validation swatch process, wherein the user selectable instructions provide parameters to configure the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- b) executing the color validation swatch process wherein the execution of the color validation swatch process includes one or more color validation swatches rendered during the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- c) sequentially compiling the rendered color validation swatches;
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- d) inspecting the compiled rendered color validation swatches to characterize the color rendering performance of the printing apparatus.
A computer program product storing computer readable instructions, that when executed by a controller, performs a method of characterizing a color rendering performance of a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including a UI (User Interface), the controller and a printing device, the method comprising:
- a) receiving one or more user selectable instructions from the UI to execute a color validation swatch process, wherein the user selectable instructions provide parameters to configure the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- b) executing the color validation swatch process wherein the execution of the color validation swatch process includes one or more color validation swatches rendered during the execution of the color validation swatch process;
- c) sequentially compiling the rendered color validation swatches;
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- d) inspecting the compiled rendered color validation swatches to characterize the color rendering performance of the printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.