Patent ID: 8049924

Claim:
A method of generating a destination printer profile for coated images: comprising: A) receiving one or more target colors represented in a device independent color space; B) accessing an initial printer profile for the target colors printed with a coating, the initial printer profile transforming the device independent color space representations of the target colors to respective device specific recipes of colorants associated with printing and coating the target colors; C) printing one or more color patches using the initial printer profile to generate device specific recipes of colorants to print the color patches; D) coating the one or more color patches; E) measuring color attributes associated with the printed and coated color patches; F) determining an error associated with the printed and coated one or more color patches relative to the respective one or more target colors represented in a device independent color space; and G) modifying the initial printer profile for the target colors as a function of the error to generate a destination printer profile for printing the one or more target colors with a coating.