User-Configured Monitor-to-Printer Color Reproduction

fi c a s o f bstract. Every type of color imaging device has its own color reroduction method, providing color characteristic information. Thus, color management system with an ICC profile is generally used to eproduce colors between two different color imaging devices, for xample, from a monitor to a printer. However, once the ICC profile f a device is measured and stored, it usually remains unchanged. et, a user can sometimes control the monitor configuration, such s the color temperature, contrast, and brightness, according to heir preference, thereby changing the color characteristics of the onitor. In addition, typical end user’s viewing condition is not atched to standard environment. In this case, if the user then rints an image on the monitor screen, the color of the printed image ill not match the color displayed on the monitor screen, as the color haracteristics of the ICC profile provided by the monitor manufacurer will no longer represent the user-configured color characterisics of the monitor. Therefore, this article proposes a method for ser-configured monitor-to-printer color reproduction based on an stimation of the monitor characteristics under user’s monitor conguration and viewing condition. First, the color characteristics acording to change of monitor configuration is measured and modled for the red-green-blue (RGB) chromaticity and tone curve. econd, to estimate the color characteristics of the user’s monitor, olor matching between a printed color chart and a reproduced color hart image on the monitor screen by soft proofing is accomplished. he RGB chromaticity and tone curve models are used in a soft roofing process for adjusting the monitor’s color characteristics. fter color matching, color characteristics of the user’s monitor are hen obtained. Finally, the monitor to printer color reproduction is valuated based on the color characteristics obtained for the monior. Experimental results using the proposed method show that the rinted images have almost the same colors as the images on the eal user-configured monitor screen. © 2011 Society for Imaging cience and Technology. DOI: 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2011.55.2.020506