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Color Reproduction of Metallic-Ink Images
  DOI :  10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2016.60.3.030503  Published OnlineMay 2016
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We study the color reproduction of full-color metallic-ink images. Full-color metallic-ink images are prints whose contributing colorants are exclusively made of colored metallic inks. Due to the presence of metallic particles, metallic inks show a metal-like luster. These particles are opaque and hide the underlying ink or substrate. In order to obtain predictable halftone colors, we need a juxtaposed halftoning method to create halftone dots of different colors side by side without overlapping. Juxtaposed halftoning invalidates many assumptions generally made for the color-reproduction workflow. For printing metallic-ink images, one needs a color-separation system creating surface coverages for the eight metallic inks that correspond to the eight Neugebauer primaries. For this purpose, we introduce a simple and fast method for N-color separation that relies either on Demichel’s or on a variant of Kueppers’ ink-to-colorant separations. Thanks to a unique set of ink-to-colorant formulas, pseudo-CMY ink values are separated into amounts of printable colorants. We also describe color-separation procedures that are able to optimize different properties of the resulting metallic-ink images.

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Vahid Babaei, Roger D. Hersch, "Color Reproduction of Metallic-Ink Imagesin Journal of Imaging Science and Technology,  2016,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2016.60.3.030503

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  • received June 2015
  • accepted December 2016
  • PublishedMay 2016

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