Research on the Soft Proofing Technology Based on Substrate-Corrected Colorimetric Aims

Abstract

With the rapid development of display technology and color control technology, as well as the printing industry’s strong demand for cost reduction and efficiency, soft proofing will be used more and more in the printing production process. In the traditional soft proofing workflow, the standard ICC profiles of printers are generally used as the target of the display simulation. However, the delta E between the soft proofing and prints is always larger because of the whiteness difference between the actual printing paper and the standard paper. In this paper, the method of substrate-corrected colorimetric aims (SCCA) is used to revise the printing profile. Also, the parameters of the displays are set appropriately according to the experiments. Comparing the results between the prints and soft proofing, the effect of soft proofing is tested by objective evaluation and subjective evaluation. The experimental results show that the effect of soft proofing has been significantly improved by using SCCA method, especially in its accuracy and efficiency. It can also be the guidance in the actual printing process.