Patent ID: 8259346

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a data file for a document including a sheet having a plurality of elements; determining whether any element of the sheet requires an extended color gamut as opposed to a basic color gamut, the basic color gamut including a plurality of first colors, the extended color gamut including the first colors and a plurality of second colors different than the first colors; printing the document with a digital printing press, comprising: where any element on the sheet requires the extended color gamut: printing the sheet with a print engine of the digital printing press using colorants corresponding to the first colors and to the second colors, including turning on the colorants corresponding to the second colors included in the extended color gamut but not in the basic color gamut, such that one or more elements of the sheet that do not require the extended color gamut are nevertheless printed using the extended color gamut due to one or more other elements of the sheet requiring the extended color gamut; where no element of the sheet requires the extended color gamut: turning off the colorants corresponding to the second colors included in the extended color gamut but not in the basic color gamut; for each element of the sheet, causing the print engine to sequentially apply the colorants corresponding to just the first colors and not the second colors, such that all the elements of the sheet are printed just with the colorants corresponding to the first colors of the basic color gamut, wherein the print engine of the digital printing press is an only print engine of the digital printing press, such that a same print engine corresponds to and prints the extended color gamut and the basic color gamut, and wherein the colorants corresponding to the first colors that the print engine uses to print with the basic color gamut are the colorants corresponding to the first colors that the print engine uses to print with the extended color gamut.