Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Alejandra Terron Arregui

Jordi Sender Beleta

Montserrat Solano Pallarol

Miguel Angel Lopez Alvarez

Marti Maria Saguer

In some examples, a printer determines a difference between an enlarged calibration pattern portion printed on a substrate by a first portion of a nozzle array of the printer and an enlarged reference pattern portion printed on the substrate by a second portion of the nozzle array, the enlarged calibration pattern portion produced by printing respective smaller calibration pattern portions at corresponding different relative positions between the nozzle array and the substrate, and the enlarged reference pattern portion produced by printing respective smaller reference pattern portions at corresponding different relative positions between the nozzle array and the substrate. The printer adjusts at least one drive signal to at least one of the first portion of the nozzle array and the second portion of the nozzle array to compensate for the determined difference.

Adjusting a drive signal to compensate for a difference between pattern portions

A calibration-pattern printing method in a page-wide array printer having an array of print nozzles extending in a transverse direction of the printer comprises printing a respective calibration pattern portion on a substrate by at least one first portion of the nozzle array, changing the relative position of the nozzle array and substrate in the transverse direction then printing a respective further calibration pattern portion on the substrate by the at least one first portion of the nozzle array so that a given first nozzle-array portion prints a calibration pattern portion and further calibration pattern portion that are at least partially aligned with each other in the longitudinal direction and join up in the transverse direction to form an enlarged calibration pattern portion.

Methods of printing calibration patterns, calibration methods, and printers

A method to enable modification of color characteristics of an image. In the method, an image, defined in a first color space, is transformed to a second color space; and display of the transformed image is controlled. A color characteristic of the transformed image is modified using a rule defined in the second color space in response to a user input, and display of the modified transformed image is controlled.

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Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain

Alejandra Terron Arregui