摘要 |
The present invention is directed toward a method of that provides a user with the ability to choose the combination of dye species that best fits his or her application. Users can create prints that are colorful, lightfast, or some combination of these two. In one embodiment, the invention takes into account the characteristics of the printing medium and determines from that information how to optimize the lightfastness and gamut of an image. Lightfastness and gamut tend to relate inversely, in that the better the lightfastness, the worse the gamut and vice versa. The lightfastness and gamut of an image can be altered by changing the colorants used to print the image. High-chroma inks produce images with high gamut values. Conversely, images printed with low-chroma inks have increased lightfastness. An embodiment of this invention uses the characteristics of the print medium, upon which the image will be printed, to optimize the tradeoffs that exist between lightfastness and gamut. In this embodiment the relative amount of high- and low-chroma ink varies depending upon the characteristics of the print medium.
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