Patent ID: 7952759

Claim:
A method for generating a multidimensional printer profile for an operatively associated color printing system including a color printer, the color printing system configured to access the multidimensional printer profile to generate a color print, the method comprising: a) receiving a plurality of target colors associated with a device independent color space, each target color associated with a respective node of a colorimetric color space; b) calculating device dependent color space representations of the target colors as a function of a first Gray Component Replacement (GCR) strategy and a second GCR strategy, wherein the first GCR strategy and second GCR strategy are blended to generate a blended device dependent color space representation of a respective target color; c) associating the device dependent color space representations with their respective target colors to generate a multidimensional printer profile, step b) and c) comprising: calculating a first group of device dependent color space representations of the target colors using a first Gray Component Replacement (GCR) strategy; calculating a second group of device dependent color space representations of the target colors using a second GCR strategy; and blending the first and second group of device dependent color space representations to generate the multidimensional printer profile including a device dependent color space representation calculated as a function of the respective device dependent color space representation associated with the first group and the respective device dependent color space representation associated with the second group; d) iteratively calculating a second set of device dependent color space representations using the respective calculated device dependent color space representations of step b) as initial values and using the respective target colors to generate an error which is iteratively reduced; and e) associating the second set of device dependent color space representations with their respective target colors to generate a second multidimensional printer profile.