Compensation of printer MTFs

Nicolas Bonnier; Albrecht J. Lindner; Christophe Leynadier; Francis Schmitt

doi:10.1117/12.805989

19 January 2009 Compensation of printer MTFs

Nicolas Bonnier, Albrecht J. Lindner, Christophe Leynadier, Francis Schmitt

Proceedings Volume 7241, Color Imaging XIV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 724119 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805989
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Premilary experiments have shown that the quality of printed images depends on the capacity of the printing system to accurately reproduce details.¹ We propose to improve the quality of printed images by compensating for the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of the printing system. The MTF of the printing system is measured using the method proposed by Jang and Allebach,² in which test pages consisting of series of patches with different 1D sinusoidal modulations (modified to improve the accuracy of the results³) are printed, scanned and analyzed. Then the MTF is adaptively compensated in the Fourier domain, depending both on frequency and local mean values. Results of a category judgment experiment show significant improvement as the printed MTF compensated images obtain the best scores.

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Nicolas Bonnier, Albrecht J. Lindner, Christophe Leynadier, and Francis Schmitt "Compensation of printer MTFs", Proc. SPIE 7241, Color Imaging XIV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 724119 (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805989

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