METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COLOR-BALANCED MULTIPLE PRINT ENGINE
First Claim
1. A method of matching the printed color outputs of a plurality of marking engines operable in combination in a printing system to produce defined portions of a print job routed to selected ones of the plurality of marking engines, wherein each marking engine includes a color space profile, the method comprising:
- receiving the print job defined in a first color space;
converting the print job to an intermediate color space;
converting the print job to a system color space common to the plurality of marking engines operable in the system; and
modifying each portion of the print job such that each marking engine selected to print a defined portion of the print job performs a third color space conversion to conform its printed output to the common color space.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for color balancing page data, from a variety of input sources having non-consistent device color profiles, among a plurality of individually accessible print engines arranged in a system for color printing multiple copies of multiple page documents. Input page data is converted to a common color space, rasterized and routed to a selected print engine. Page data routed to each marking engine is color balanced to the selected marking engine where at least a portion of the color balancing occurs following the rasterizing of the page data.
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1. A method of matching the printed color outputs of a plurality of marking engines operable in combination in a printing system to produce defined portions of a print job routed to selected ones of the plurality of marking engines, wherein each marking engine includes a color space profile, the method comprising:
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receiving the print job defined in a first color space; converting the print job to an intermediate color space; converting the print job to a system color space common to the plurality of marking engines operable in the system; and modifying each portion of the print job such that each marking engine selected to print a defined portion of the print job performs a third color space conversion to conform its printed output to the common color space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. Apparatus for matching the printed color outputs of a plurality of marking engines operable in combination in a printing system to produce defined portions of a print job routed to selected ones of the plurality of marking engines, wherein each marking engine includes a color space profile, the apparatus comprising:
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means for receiving the print job defined in a first color space; means for converting the print job to an intermediate color space; means for converting the print job to a system color space common to the plurality of marking engines operable in the system; and means for modifying each portion of the print job such that each marking engine selected to print a defined portion of the print job performs a third color space conversion to conform its printed output to the common color space. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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