Patent ID: 7339704

Claim:
A method to provide standardized input CMYK values to an environment of clustered printers, comprising: (a) receiving a digital image in CMYK space; (b) transforming the digital image in CMYK space to a digital in C′M′Y′K′ space using a CMYK to C′M′Y′K′ look-up table; (c) processing the digital image in C′M′Y′K′ space; (d) rendering the processed digital image on a recording medium; (e) scanning the rendered image to create a rendered digital image in CMYK space; (f) comparing reference CMYK values with the rendered digital image in CMYK space; (g) creating a new CMYK to C′M′Y′K′ look-up table based upon the comparison of the reference CMYK values with the rendered digital image in CMYK space; and (h) replacing the CMYK to C′M′Y′K′ look-up table with the new CMYK to C′M′Y′K′ look-up table.