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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2009
Connie Purdum, Rochester, NY (US);
Lalit Keshay Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);
Martin Maltz, Rochester, NY (US);
Frederick J. Ramsey, Webster, NY (US);
Alvaro Enrique Gil, Rochester, NY (US);
Connie Purdum, Rochester, NY (US);
Lalit Keshay Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);
Martin Maltz, Rochester, NY (US);
Frederick J. Ramsey, Webster, NY (US);
Alvaro Enrique Gil, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corpoartion, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A printer configured to adjust gloss appearance of images includes a marking engine configured to render an image on a substrate from input image data; and a controller configured to: (i) correlate a minimum luminance value to be used by the printer based on a gloss selection; (ii) determine a black point compensation function based on the correlated minimum luminance value; and (iii) adjust luminance values for input image data using the determined black point compensation function. A method to adjust gloss appearance of images is also provided.