Patent ID: 8456697

Claim:
A method for adaptive illumination independent matching of spot colors for a printing system, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, comprising: obtaining spectra for at least one spot color; obtaining illuminant spectra for a plurality of illuminants; converting, using the one or more processors, the at least one spot color spectra to an illuminant specific target value corresponding to each of the plurality of illuminants; determining, using the one or more processors, a device specific recipe for the at least one spot color for each of the illuminant specific target value for the printing system, wherein each of the determined device specific recipe corresponds to each of the plurality of illuminants; for each of the determined device specific recipes, calculating, using the one or more processors, color dispersion values for that same determined device specific recipe for all the remaining of the plurality of illuminants other than the illuminant used to determine the device specific recipe; and using the calculated color dispersion values to select a device specific recipe for the at least one spot color from the determined device specific recipes of the at least one spot color, wherein the selected device specific recipe for the at least one spot color yields a lowest color dispersion value across all of the plurality of illuminants.