Patent ID: 9008527
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A method for calibrating specialty toner, the method comprising: providing a substrate; depositing an invariant or substantially invariant laydown of a color toner on the substrate; depositing a varying laydown of the specialty toner; wherein the color toner is a complementary color of a primary component of the color of the specialty toner; fusing the color toner and specialty toner to the substrate; measuring a color response signal of the substrate, color toner, and specialty toner; calculating a color response curve as function of the varying laydown of the specialty toner; comparing the color response curve to a target color response curve; and modifying printing parameters of the specialty toner to set the color response curve equal to or substantially equal to the target color response curve; and wherein the specialty toner includes either white, clear, pearlescence, metallic or fluorescent toner.