Patent ID: 8339690

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving first calibration data for a first halftone screen particular to a particular printing device, the first halftone screen comprising a first pattern of printed dots of varying size and shape applied to a continuous-tone version of a digital image to generate a halftone version of the digital image suitable for printing; correlating a second halftone screen with the first halftone screen to generate correlation data, the second halftone screen comprising a second pattern of printed dots of varying size and shape applied to the continuous-tone version of the digital image to generate the halftone version of the digital image suitable for printing; and applying the correlation data to the first calibration data to generate second calibration data for the second halftone screen particular to the particular printing device without having to employ previous second calibration data for the second halftone screen particular to the particular printing device; calibrating the second halftone screen for the particular priming device, using the second calibration data; applying the second halftone screen to the continuous-tone version of the digital image to generate the halftone version of the digital image; and printing the halftone version of the digital image generated by applying the second halftone screen to the continuous-tone version of the digital image, using the particular printing device.