1st Edition
Control of Color Imaging Systems Analysis and Design
A Complete One-Stop Resource
While digital color is now the technology of choice for printers, the knowledge required to address the quality and productivity issues of these devices is scattered across several technologies, as is its supporting literature.
Bringing together information from diverse fields, Control of Color Imaging Systems: Analysis and Design is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and algorithms of the numerous disciplines associated with digital color printing in a single resource. The authors review the history of digital printing systems, explore its current status, and explain fundamental concepts, including: digital image formation, sampling, quantization, image coding, spot color calibration, and one- and multi-dimensional tone control of color management systems — including process physics and controls.
A Complete Self-Tutorial With Over 150 Design Examples and 120 Exercise Problems
Based on the authors’ three decades of hands-on technical and teaching experience, the text provides engineers and technicians with an end-to-end understanding of the color printing process, and helps them build a foundation drawn from the diverse disciplines needed to manage and control digital production printers.
The control theory and methods presented in this book are state-of-the art for color printing systems; however, coverage of theoretical concepts and mathematics are kept to the basics, as the book is designed to teach hand’s on skills that will allow practitioners to gain an immediate understanding of quality and productivity concerns. The understanding provided will help practitioners build the technical skills needed to help pioneer the next generation of ideas, algorithms, and methods that will further expand the frontier of this rapidly evolving technology.
Preface
Acknowledgments
An Overview of Digital Printing Systems
Introduction
Printing and Publishing System
Digital Front End
Digital Print Engine (Electrophotographic)
Evolution of Controls Technology for Digital
Printers—Color Controls View
Prepress-Based Processing
DFE-Based Processing
Print Engine-Based Processing
References
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing
Introduction
Digital Image Formation and Systems
Optical and Modulation Transfer Functions
Image Sampling and Quantization
Image Transform
Image Filtering
Image Resizing
Image Enhancement
Image Restoration
Image Halftoning
Problems
References
Mathematical Foundations
Introduction
General Continuous-Time System Description
Laplace Transform
General Linear Discrete-Time Systems
z-Transform
Discrete-Time Fourier Transform
Two-Dimensional z-Transform
Two-Dimensional Discrete-Space Fourier Transform
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Singular Value Decomposition
Matrix Polynomials and Functions of Square Matrices
Fundamentals of Matrix Calculus
Problems
References
State-Variable Representation
Introduction
Concept of States
State-Space Representation of Continuous-Time Systems
State-Space Representation of General Continuous LTI Systems
Solution of LTI Continuous-Time State Equations
State-Space Representation of Discrete-Time Systems
State-Space Representation of Discrete-Time LTI Systems
Solution of LTI Discrete-Time State Equations
Controllability of LTI Systems
Observability of LTI Systems
Problems
References
Closed-Loop System Analysis and Design
Introduction
State Feedback
LQR Design
State Estimators (Observers) Design
Combined State Estimation and Control
Problems
References
Interpolation of Multidimensional Functions
Introduction
Interpolation of Uniformly Spaced Lookup Tables
Nonuniformly Spaced Lookup Tables
Lookup Table Inverse
Compression of Lookup Tables
Smoothing Algorithm for Multidimensional Functions
Problems
References
Three-Dimensional Control of Color Management Systems
Introduction
Image Path Architecture
Profiling—A Complex System Problem
Characterization of Color Systems
GCR Selection and Inversion
Gamut-Mapping Methods
Evaluation of Profiles
An Example Showing How to Build Multidimensional LUT
Problems
References
One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional, and Spot-Color Management and Control Methods
Introduction
Principles of Color Management
One-Dimensional Gray-Balance Calibration
Two-Dimensional Calibration
One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Printer Calibration
Using Printer Models
One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Printer Calibration with State-Feedback Methods
Spot-Color Control
Problems
References
Internal Process Controls
Introduction
Process Control Models—A General Control View
Time Hierarchical Process Control Loops
Level 1 Electrostatic Control System
State Space to Transfer Function Conversions
Level 2 Developability Controller
Steady-State Error
Design of the Gain Matrix
Level 3 Control Loops
Dead Beat Response
TC Control Loop
Process Controls Under Limited Actuation
Optimal Controls for Selective States
Optimal Measurements
Problems
References
Printing System Models
Introduction
Process Models
Modulation Transfer Functions
Tone Reproduction Curve
Image Simulation with Fusing and Color Models
Virtual Printer Color Gamut
Virtual Printer Model Tuning to an Experimental Printer
Problems
References
Appendices (A-C)
Index
Biography
Mestha, Lalit K.; Dianat, Sohail A.
"... brings together the technical fields of imaging systems and feedback control systems in a self-contained manner. ... an excellent addition to the literature on the analysis and design of color-imaging systems. It should be recommended to anyone who wants to become familiar with state-of-the-art techniques in these areas."
-- Daniel Viassolo, Vestas Technology R&D, Power Plant Department, Houston, Texas