Patent ID: 8797602

Claim:
A method of processing a document printing system work flow associated with a print job and printing the print job on a substrate using a printer operatively connected to the work flow, the work flow including one or more of a UV and IR embedded image, the method comprising: a) accessing a document description including one or more device independent color space representations of the print job, the print job including one or more UV and IR embedded fields to be rendered in a metameric process associated with a spot color process; b) transforming the one or more device independent color space representations of the print job not associated with the one or more of the UV and IR embedded fields to a device dependent color space representation using a color management process independent of the spot color process; c) accessing a spatially structured pattern ink from a plurality of spatially structured pattern inks associated with one or more of the UV and IR embedded fields to be included in the print job, the spatially structured pattern ink including a plurality of non-overlapping primitive spot colors retrieved from a primitive spot color database associated with the spot color process transforming a respective primitive spot color to a device dependent colorant recipe necessary to render the primitive spot color on the substrate using the printer; d) printing on the substrate the device dependent color space representation of the print job associated with the color management process independent of the spot color process and the spatially structured pattern ink associated with one or more of a UV and IR embedded image, wherein the printing of the device dependent color space representation of the print job associated with the color management process independent of the spot color process on the substrate includes one or more halftone processes, the printing of the spatially structured pattern ink on the substrate substantially includes the minimization of the effect of the one or more halftone processes on the printing of the spatially structured pattern ink, and the primitive spot colors include primary and secondary colors associated with the printer.