US Patent No: 7,301,671
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Method for calibrating a color marking engine for halftone operation
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Nov 27, 2007
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Sep 8, 2003
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10/657,735
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Abstract
Methods are described for calibrating a virtual printer including a plurality of color marking engines. The methods include printing a test pattern on one of the marking engines, the test pattern including a plurality of test patches, each test patch including corresponding expected colorimetric values, reading the test pattern with a colorimeter to determine measured colorimetric values associated with each of the test patches, and creating a lookup table that maps the measured colorimetric values to the expected colorimetric values.
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