A test target containing both solid-fi ll colors and fi nely cross-hatched line patterns of colors was investigated as a method to correlate macro colorimetric measurements with changes in printed line quality on inkjet media exposed to high relative humidity. The objective was to achieve a single macro measurement technique that can simultaneously rank test samples for both humidity-induced color shift and loss of line quality or edge sharpness. The results show that the inclusion of the cross-hatched line patterns in the test target proved essential to achieve a high correlation with visually observed changes in line quality.
Mark McCormick-Goodhart, Henry Wilhelm, "The Correlation of Line Quality Degradation With Color Changes in Inkjet Prints Exposed to High Relative Humidity" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP19), 2003, pp 420 - 425, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2003.19.1.art00101_1