System for organizing codes representing selectable colors in a digital printing apparatus

摘要

In a color-management system, such as for a color digital printer, digital codes describing combinations of two colors are retained in a specific format. The three primary-color stimuli forming each color of the color pair are described as binary numbers, and the binary numbers are combined to yield a single orderable number. With this format, codes describing color pairs can be readily retained in a searchable table, preferably an AVL-balanced tree.