Design of color screen sets for robustness to color plane misregistration

Jin Young Kim, Yung Yao Chen, Mani Fischer, Omri Shacham, Carl Staelin, Jan P. Allebach

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Abstract

Periodic clustered-dot screens are widely used for electrophotographic printers due to their homogeneous halftone texture and their robustness to dot gain. However, when applied to color printing, there are two important phenomena that limit the quality of printed color halftones generated using a screening technology: (1) moiré due to the superposition halftone patterns corresponding to different periodicity matrices, and (2) appearance changes due to misregistration between different colorant planes. This paper focuses on analyzing the registration sensitivity of periodic, clustered-dot screens. To quantitatively measure the effect of registration errors, we introduce two new functions: (1) cost, and (2) risk of registration errors. We propose the notion of "visual equivalence", and derive three propositions under which visual equivalence can be achieved, even when registration errors occur.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIP 2011
Subtitle of host publication2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
Pages1733-1736
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011 - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 11 Sep 201114 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period11/09/1114/09/11

Keywords

  • Color halftoning
  • cost of registration errors
  • periodic screen design
  • registration sensitivity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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