Method for correcting the gray balance of a printing process

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8159719
APP PUB NO 20090015855A1
SERIAL NO

12170686

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A method for correcting gray balance of a printing process includes imaging printing forms assigned to color separations with a test form, printing a printing material using the printing forms in a printing press and calorimetrically measuring the test form printed onto the printing material. It is undesirably possible to produce a new color error in other tonal value ranges due to changing the layer thickness of a process ink to correct the gray balance. In order to perform a gray balance correction without disruptive secondary effects, a test form is imaged with colored gray areas, after their colorimetric measurement, at least two of the colored gray areas are selected and, based on their color values, a corrected tonal value of a non-black chromatic process ink is determined, and this corrected tonal value is recorded as a corrected set point of the process ink for imaging following printing forms.

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HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AGHEIDELBERG GERMANY HEIDELBERG BADEN-WURTTEMBERG

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Bestmann, Günter Altenholz, DE 4 13

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