Patent ID: 8204416

Claim:
A method of measuring color-to-color registration in a multicolor marking platform, comprising: a) marking a plurality of test pattern images on an image receiving member using a reference color separation station and a first color separation station over a process direction span in relation to a selected target media and a cyclic characteristic of the multicolor marking platform, wherein the plurality of test pattern images are arranged in at least one array, each array comprising at least one row extending along the process direction span and a plurality of columns, each column extending along a cross-process direction span, a quantity of columns and a quantity of rows for each array based at least in part on a size dimension for the selected target media in the process direction and in the cross-process direction respectively; b) detecting each test pattern image on the image receiving member; c) determining a first registration measurement associated with the first color separation in relation to the reference color separation for each test pattern image, wherein the first registration measurements provide process measurements for the first color separation; and d) determining a first repeatable registration error pattern associated with the first color separation and the selected target media in relation to the cyclic characteristic based at least in part on the first registration measurements determined in c), wherein the first registration measurements associated with each column of one or more test patterns are represented in the first repeatable registration error pattern such that column-level resolution is provided for the first repeatable registration error pattern in the process direction.