Achieving ink cost saving for printing devices by taking visual appearance and real ink costs into account

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9994053
APP PUB NO 20170253063A1
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15142889

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A user defines the real costs for each of the individual inks used in printer and also defines a tolerance level for visual acceptance, defined in CIE units of DeltaE2000. Then, an algorithm performs a search through all nodes of the device link profile and for each node it tries to find an ink combination that creates less costs and is still within the given visual tolerance (

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  • ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.

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Schuppan, Holger Bottrop, DE 9 22

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