Patent ID: 8049926

Claim:
A method of selecting a color for a print operation, the method comprising: selecting a color based on a reference color, wherein the selected color comprises a color formula having a plurality of color components; printing, on a printing device, a print sample based on the selected color, wherein the print sample comprises the selected color and a plurality of rings of color variants, wherein each ring comprises a plurality of color variants differing from a color component of the selected color by a corresponding amount, wherein each color variant is aligned axially based on the color component that differs from the selected color and a magnitude of a difference between the color component of the color variant and the color component of the selected color, wherein a magnitude of a difference between the color component of the selected color and a first color variant in a first ring is equal to a magnitude of a difference between the color component of the first color variant and a second color variant in a second ring; comparing the print sample to the reference color; and printing, on the printing device, a document using at least the color formula for the selected color.