In order to design robust image-enhancement techniques for digital prints it is important to understand the fundamental image-quality criteria that provide the basis for satisfactory pictorial print reproduction. Properly established, these criteria are applicable independent of the
analog or digital nature of the image, and any enhancement technique should at the least be carried out with an understanding of the before-and-after quality implications. Better still, in the ideal situation the criteria themselves can be used as an integral part of the original design tools
during the construction of a systematic rather than an
Rodney Shaw, "Image Quality Criteria and the Enhancement of Digital Prints" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP17), 2001, pp 705 - 708, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2001.17.1.art00059_2