Patent ID: 9204016
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing a digital color press and a digital front end, wherein the digital color press comprises a stacker and a proof tray, and wherein the digital color press is at least partially controlled by the digital front end; generating a color target, wherein the color target is associated with a print job; specifying an interval at which to print the color target, wherein the specified interval is based on at least one of a time interval and a sheet count interval; executing the print job so that sheets of the print lob are printed to the stacker of the digital color press: and during the execution of the print job automatically printing the color target at the specified interval that is based on the at least one of the time interval and the sheet count interval; wherein automatically printing the color target at the specified interval comprises: automatically transmitting the color target to the digital front end; and automatically printing the color target to the proof tray of the digital color press; wherein at the specified interval the color target is automatically printed to the proof tray during the printing of the sheets of the print lob to the stacker to thereby enable monitoring of color performance of the print lob during the execution thereof; wherein the color target has one or more color spaces; wherein the digital color press comprises a color measurement device; and wherein the method further comprises: automatically measuring the one or more color spaces using the color measurement device; automatically comparing the measurements of the one or more color spaces with a reference set of color values to thereby determine one or more color variances; determining whether the one or more color variances are within respective tolerances; and if the one or more color variances are not within the respective tolerances, then automatically adjusting the digital color press.