Moiré artifact prediction in a variable data printing environment

With the introduction of the digital press in recent years, the cost of short-run printing jobs has decreased. The "print-on- the-fly" capability of these digital presses makes it possible to compose documents based on the contents extracted from various databases. The traditional proofing...

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Published in2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing pp. 1101 - 1104
Main Authors Mu Qiao, Allebach, J.P.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2008
Subjects
Costs
Data engineering
Data mining
Digital publishing
Electronic publishing
Humans
Image databases
Image processing
Inspection
moiré artifact detection
Printing
variable data printing
Visual databases
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Summary:With the introduction of the digital press in recent years, the cost of short-run printing jobs has decreased. The "print-on- the-fly" capability of these digital presses makes it possible to compose documents based on the contents extracted from various databases. The traditional proofing method in print shops focuses on human visual inspection of one hard copy among thousands of print-outs. However, in variable data printing (VDP), each instance of the same template could use different texts, fonts, and images obtained through various capturing devices. Visual inspection of every copy is not cost efficient in the VDP environment. In this paper, we present a scheme to automatically predict the presence of moire artifacts in the print-out before the actual printing take place. Only the images that may induce moire artifact with respect to the targeted press will be identified and adaptive image processing can be applied to eliminate the potential artifact.
ISBN:9781424414833
1424414830
ISSN:1520-6149
2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517806