Systems and method for automatic color plane misregistration calibration
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsElad Taig, Shai Druckman, Itsik Shaul
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Abstract
A system and a method for implementing an automatic color plane misregistration (CPR) calibration procedure on a printing device are provided. The system includes a printing device. The printing device includes a user interface configured to receive a set of user inputs corresponding to parameters of a desired print project. The printing device also includes an automatic CPR calibration component configured to automatically implement a CPR calibration procedure in response to a user-defined trigger condition being met. The user-defined trigger condition can be programmable and stored in a memory.
Claims12
A printing device comprising:
- a user interface configured to receive a set of user inputs corresponding to parameters of a desired print project;
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- an automatic color plane misregistration (CPR) calibration component configured to automatically implement a CPR calibration procedure in response to a user-defined trigger condition being met during the desired print project, the automatic CPR calibration procedure being programmed to be an abbreviated version of a manual CPR calibration procedure, the automatic CPR calibration procedure comprising calibration of less than all separations of the CMYK color model and CPR calibration of one of simplex and duplex sides of the pages of the printing device, the user-defined trigger condition being programmable and stored in a memory.
A method for implementing an automatic color plane misregistration (CPR) calibration procedure on a printing device, the method comprising:
- enabling automatic CPR calibration for the printing device via a user input;
- receiving a set of user inputs corresponding to parameters of a desired print project;
- initiating the desired print project;
- pausing the desired print project upon a user-defined trigger condition associated with the automatic CPR calibration procedure being met;
- implementing the automatic CPR calibration procedure, the automatic CPR calibration procedure being an abbreviated CPR calibration procedure with respect to a manual CPR calibration procedure, the automatic CPR calibration procedure comprising calibration of less than all separations of the CMYK color model and CPR calibration of one of simplex and duplex sides of the pages of the printing device;
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- resuming the desired print project upon completion of the automatic CPR calibration procedure.
A printing device comprising:
- a user interface configured to receive a set of user inputs corresponding to parameters of a desired print project and to a plurality of trigger conditions associated with an automatic color plane misregistration (CPR) calibration procedure, each of the plurality of trigger conditions defining a separate condition for implementing the CPR calibration procedure, at least a portion of the plurality of trigger conditions being specific to the parameters of the desired print project;
- a memory configured to store the plurality of trigger conditions;
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- an automatic CPR calibration component configured to automatically implement an abbreviated version of a CPR calibration procedure in response to one of the plurality of trigger conditions being met, the abbreviated version of the manual CPR calibration comprises calibration of less than all separations of the CMYK color model and CPR calibration of one of simplex and duplex sides of the pages of the printing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.