EP1575779A1 - Farbtintenstrahldruckverfahren mit optimierung der abgesetzten tröpfchenzahl und zugehöriger drucker - Google Patents

Farbtintenstrahldruckverfahren mit optimierung der abgesetzten tröpfchenzahl und zugehöriger drucker

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EP1575779A1
EP1575779A1 EP03782520A EP03782520A EP1575779A1 EP 1575779 A1 EP1575779 A1 EP 1575779A1 EP 03782520 A EP03782520 A EP 03782520A EP 03782520 A EP03782520 A EP 03782520A EP 1575779 A1 EP1575779 A1 EP 1575779A1
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color
equivalent
drops
superimposed
ink
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Philippe Sarra-Bournet
Jean-Paul Marietti
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Thales DIS France SA
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Gemplus Card International SA
Gemplus SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/205—Ink jet for printing a discrete number of tones
    • B41J2/2056—Ink jet for printing a discrete number of tones by ink density change
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/21—Ink jet for multi-colour printing
    • B41J2/2107—Ink jet for multi-colour printing characterised by the ink properties

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  • the present invention relates to color inkjet printing using an inkjet printer comprising a plurality of cartridges each containing an ink to be projected in the form of drops on a printing medium.
  • inkjet printers include four cartridges each containing a basic or primary color, namely yellow, magenta, cyan and black.
  • printers To increase the final rendering of the image, particularly in photography, certain printers also include additional cartridges containing inks of so-called “light” primary color such as light magenta, light cyan and light black.
  • the present invention provides a solution to these problems.
  • It relates to a method of printing a color inkjet printer of the type comprising at least four ink cartridges each containing a base color chosen from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and at least one additional cartridge containing an ink of a so-called light base color, and in which a print order is received containing information relating to the color requested and / or the number and color of the ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the color requested in a pixel considered from a chosen printing medium.
  • the method comprises an optimization mode in which the color applied and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superimposed required to obtain the color requested at said pixel with an equivalent color and / or a number and a number of equivalent droplets to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and applies to the printer the equivalent color and / or the number and color of the equivalent drops to be superimposed thus determined for each print order received.
  • the number of drops to be superimposed equivalent is less than the number of drops to be superimposed required, preferably less than or equal to four or three drops of ink of different color when the printer is equipped at least six ink cartridges.
  • the optimization mode comprises several levels of correspondence.
  • the present invention also relates to a color inkjet printer capable of implementing the method according to the invention, said printer being of the type comprising at least four cartridges each containing a basic color chosen from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and an additional cartridge containing a so-called light base color ink, and processing means capable of processing a print order comprising information relating to color requested and / or the number and color of the ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color in a given pixel of a chosen printing medium.
  • the processing means are able to match the requested color and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color at the level of said pixel with an equivalent color and / or a number and a color of the equivalent drops to be superimposed making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and to apply to the printer the equivalent color and / or the number and the color of the equivalent drops to be superimposed thus determined for each print order received.
  • correspondence is established according to a law or a predetermined correspondence table.
  • the present invention also relates to software intended to control a color inkjet printer of the type comprising at least four cartridges each containing a basic color chosen from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and an additional cartridge containing a so-called light base color ink, said software comprising instruction codes capable of processing a print order comprising information relating to the color requested and / or to the number and color of the ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color in a given pixel of a chosen print medium.
  • the software instruction codes are able to match the requested color and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color on the level of said pixel with an equivalent color and / or an equivalent number and color of the drops to be superimposed making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and to apply to the printer the equivalent color and / or the number and color of the equivalent drops to be superimposed thus determined for each print order received.
  • FIG. 2 shows the stack of three drops of different colors having substantially the same rendering as the stack of Figure 1 according to the optimization method according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 schematically represents a curve illustrating a color reproduced by the stack of the six drops of FIG. 1 and a color reproduced by the stack of three drops of FIG. 2 according to the method according to the invention
  • FIG. 4 shows a correspondence table according to the invention between the color requested and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed required to reproduce several colors chosen in a pixel considered on the one hand and an equivalent color and / or an equivalent number and color of the drops to be superimposed allowing a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering to be obtained in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye on the other hand, and
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing a printer capable of implementing the steps of the optimization method according to the invention.
  • a color inkjet printer comprises four cartridges each containing a color chosen from the four basic colors: yellow J, magenta M, cyan C and black K.
  • a stack E6 of six drops of ink of different colors (here yellow J, light magenta Mclair, black K, cyan C and magenta M) is produced in a given pixel of a support given from a seven-cartridge printer.
  • Such an E6 stack has a color rendering with a wavelength of the order of 560 nm (FIG. 3).
  • a stack E3 (FIG. 2) of three drops of ink of different colors (here magenta M, cyan C and black K) has a color rendering of a length of wave substantially equivalent, here of the order of 550 nm to that of the stack E6, and that the spectral shift between the two color renditions (here of the order of 10 nm) does not affect, or very little, the sensory response of the human eye.
  • the applicant has established a match table or table TAB (FIG. 4) between several requested colors and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed required to reproduce said requested colors in a pixel considered of an equivalent art and colors and / or numbers and colors of the drops to be superimposed equivalent making it possible to obtain a rendering of color appreciably equivalent and satisfactory in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye on the other hand.
  • TAB match table or table
  • the requested color CD5 is assigned the requested stack ED5 formed by:
  • the requested color CD5 and / or the ED5 stack are replaced by the equivalent color CE5 and / or the equivalent stack EE5 formed by - a drop d 'Xx color ink,
  • the method according to the invention thus makes it possible to obtain a reduction G5 of three drops of ink.
  • the TAB law or correspondence table is established beforehand before executing the ink deposition optimization mode.
  • the optimization mode can also include several levels of correspondence, for example fine, coarse or normal. Each level is assigned a threshold whose value corresponds to a spectral shift (expressed in nm) between the requested color and the equivalent color. For example, the spectral shift corresponding to the coarse level is greater than 20 nm while the spectral shift of the fine level is less than 10 nm.
  • the Applicant has obtained a saving of about 25% on the amount of ink used to print logos on smart cards with a volume of a drop of the order of 18 picoliter and an average volume per side of around 60 microliter with the optimization method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 5 there is shown the implementation of the optimization process in a color inkjet printer such as that sold by the company EPSON under the reference Stylus series PHOTO 850, 890, 950.
  • the color inkjet printer 1 comprises for example six to eight cartridges 2 of which four cartridges each contain a color chosen from the four basic colors: yellow J, magenta M, cyan C and black K and of which two, three or four cartridges contain light inks chosen from Mclair light magenta, Cclair light cyan and Kclair light black.
  • a controller or pilot 3 of the printer 1 receives a print order 4 comprising information relating to the requested color CC and / or to the number and color of the ink drops G to be superimposed to reproduce a color chosen at a determined location, called pixel Pi, on a chosen printing medium 5.
  • order 4 comes from an image processor (not shown) of RIP type for “Raster Image processor” residing in a remote computer (not shown) containing the digital image to be printed.
  • the RIP processor resides in printer 1.
  • the controller 3 consults, via the link 6, a memory 7 containing a table TAB or law of correspondence between the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superimposed required ED to reproduce at least one color chosen in a pixel considered on the one hand and an equivalent color CE and / or a number and a color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE allowing a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering to be obtained in accordance with the sensory response of the eye human on the other hand.
  • a memory 7 containing a table TAB or law of correspondence between the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superimposed required ED to reproduce at least one color chosen in a pixel considered on the one hand and an equivalent color CE and / or a number and a color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE allowing a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering to be obtained in accordance with the sensory response of the eye human on the other hand.
  • the correspondence is established by software, the instruction codes of which are executed by the controller 3 or another microprocessor (not shown).
  • the software instruction codes are contained in a storage medium (not shown).
  • the controller 3 requests the print head (not shown) containing the ink cartridges 2 according to the equivalent color CE and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE thus determined for each color requested CD and / or for each stack requested ED.
  • the printhead thus stressed brings the ink from the ink cartridges 2 to the nozzles (not shown) of the printhead of the printer in order to be expelled in the form of drops G in accordance with the color CE equivalent and / or the number and color of the drops to be superimposed EE equivalents thus determined.

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  • Color Image Communication Systems (AREA)
  • Inks, Pencil-Leads, Or Crayons (AREA)
EP03782520A 2002-11-08 2003-11-06 Farbtintenstrahldruckverfahren mit optimierung der abgesetzten tröpfchenzahl und zugehöriger drucker Expired - Lifetime EP1575779B1 (de)

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FR0214057 2002-11-08
FR0214057A FR2846907B1 (fr) 2002-11-08 2002-11-08 Procede d'impression a jet d'encre couleur a optimisation du nombre de gouttes deposees et imprimante correspondante
PCT/FR2003/003314 WO2004043700A1 (fr) 2002-11-08 2003-11-06 Procede d’impression a jet d’encre couleur a optimisation du nombre de gouttes deposees et imprimante correspondante

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