Eastman-Kodak Company

Jeffrey C Brewster

Kent M Brothers

A method for making a device link () for a color management system, with an associated imaging apparatus (), wherein the device link specifies a transformation of digital-image colorant combinations to imaging-apparatus colorant combinations. The device link converts the digital image () to a modified digital image () represented using the imaging-apparatus colorant combinations, thereby allowing the imaging apparatus to produce an output image () having output-image colors matching reference-image colors at corresponding physical locations in a reference image (). The method includes establishing an association between selected digital-image colorant combinations and reference-image colors, determining for each associated measured reference-image color a suitable imaging-apparatus colorant combination that will produce the reference-image color when rendered by the imaging apparatus, extending the transformation to all other digital-image colorant combinations by means of a mathematical interpolation, and encoding and encapsulating the transformation in a digital form as a device link.

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Vancouver, Canada

Jeffrey C Brewster