Patent ID: 6953244

Claim:
A method of providing an image on a receiver comprising: processing data representing the image to identify a printed area of the image and a non-printed area of the image; processing data representing the printed area of the image to identify an imaged area and a non-imaged area of the printed area of the image; and operating a printhead having a first segment that applies a gloss matching fluid to the non-imaged area of the printed area of the image and a second segment that applies an ink set having at least one color to the imaged area of the printed area of the image, wherein the ink set has a predetermined minimum gloss value (GV min ) and a maximum gloss value (GV max ), and the gloss matching fluid has a predetermined gloss value (GV GMF ), wherein the predetermined gloss value GV GMF satisfying the following condition: 0.1GV min ≦GV GMF ≦1.5GV max , wherein GV min and GV max are predetermined gloss values calculated according to the following equations: GV min =MIN( GV 1 , GV 2 , . . . , GV i ,. . . , GV n ) GV max =MAX( GV 1 , GV 2 , . . . , GV i , . . . , GV n ) where i is a variable which identifies a certain color patch used in the evaluation, and n is the total number of color patches used in the evaluation.