Patent ID: 8456698

Claim:
A method for adaptive illumination independent matching of out-of-gamut spot colors for a printing system, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, comprising: obtaining a color value for at least one spot color; obtaining a color value for each of a plurality of illuminants; converting, using the one or more processors, the at least one spot color value to illuminant specific target values corresponding to each of the plurality of illuminants using each of a plurality of gamut mapping techniques; determining, using the one or more processors, a device specific recipe for the at least one spot color for each of the illuminant specific target values for the printing system, wherein each of the determined device specific recipes corresponds to each of the plurality of illuminants using each of the plurality of gamut mapping techniques; for each of the determined device specific recipes, calculating, using the one or more processors, color dispersion values for that same determined device specific recipe for all the remaining of the plurality of illuminants other than the illuminant used to determine the device specific recipe using each of the plurality of gamut mapping techniques; and using the calculated color dispersion values to select a device specific recipe for the at least one spot color from the determined device specific recipes of the at least one spot color and to select one of the gamut mapping techniques for the at least one spot color, wherein the selected device specific recipe and the selected gamut mapping technique for the at least one spot color yield a lowest color dispersion value across all of the plurality of illuminants.