Printing Resource Grouping for Accurate Color Export and Import
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing complex color reproduction in printing systems requires expertise and time due to the intricate interplay of digital front end resources like paper catalog entries, calibrations, and ICC profiles, making it challenging to efficiently export and import these resources.
Innovation Solution
A method for managing color printing resources that aggregates and displays linked resources for export or import, ensuring all relevant resources are managed automatically, including paper catalog entries, calibrations, ICC profiles, and spot color definitions, allowing operators to select and export or import them as integrated groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual management of color printing resources is performed, then expertise and time are required to manage resource correlations, but the process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes resource groups that automatically include all correlated resources (paper catalog entries, calibrations, ICC profiles, spot color definitions) based on predefined relationships. When a user selects one resource, the system has already prepared the complete set of associated resources, eliminating the need for manual correlation management and reducing time consumption while maintaining color reproduction accuracy.
2Ease of operation
If individual resources are managed separately, then flexibility in selection is maintained, but the complexity of managing resource associations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges correlated resources into unified resource groups where resources that must work together (paper catalog entries with their calibrations, ICC profiles, and spot color definitions) are combined into single selectable units. This reduces operational complexity by presenting users with pre-packaged resource sets rather than requiring them to manually assemble and manage individual resource associations, while still allowing selection flexibility at the group level.
3Productivity
If automated resource grouping is implemented, then export and import processes are simplified, but the system must automatically determine resource correlations
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service automated resource grouping where the resource management system automatically identifies and groups correlated resources based on inherent relationships stored in the paper catalog structure. The system autonomously determines which resources belong together (calibrations linked to specific papers, ICC profiles associated with paper types, spot color definitions tied to calibrations) and organizes them into exportable groups without requiring complex manual intervention or sophisticated automated correlation algorithms, thereby improving productivity while controlling system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods for aggregating resources enhance the export or import of printing resources within a printing system. A resource is selected for a paper. The resource can be a paper catalog entry, a calibration, an ICC profile, or a spot color associated with a paper. One or more calibrations associated with the resource are determined. Peer calibration groups are aggregated based on calibrations sharing the same calibration source data. The resources and groups are displayed so that an operator selects which resources to export or import within the printing system.