Patent Document ID: 5542052
Application ID: 08188246

Base Claim:
1. A method of electronically trapping a printed color page including a plurality of color regions, the method comprising the steps of: (a) creating, according to a set of trapping rules, a proposed trap area for a color region of interest; (b) determining a cutout from the proposed trap area if one or more color regions that do not overlap the proposed trap area are in such close proximity to the color region of interest that an undesirable trap would result without the modification; and (c) creating a resultant trap area for the color region of interest which is equivalent to the proposed trap area less the cutout.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 and further including the step of comparing the proposed trap area to color regions to determine if there are any intersections between the two areas and, if one or more intersections are present, modifying the resultant trap area to exclude the color region or regions from the resultant trap area.