Dale R. Mashtare

Recent Progress in the Development of INCITS W1.1, Appearance-Based Image Quality Standards for Printers

In September 2000, INCITS W1 (the U.S. representative of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC28, the standardization committee for office equipment) was chartered to develop an appearance-based image quality standard.(1),(2) The resulting W1.1 project is based on a proposal(4) that perceived image quality can be described by a small set of broad-based attributes. There are currently five ad hoc teams, each working towards the development of standards for evaluation of perceptual image quality of color printers for one or more of these image quality attributes. This paper summarizes the work in progress of the teams addressing the attributes of Macro-Uniformity, Color Rendition, Text and Line Quality and Micro-Uniformity.

Gloss uniformity measurement update for ISO/IEC 19751

To address the standardization issues of perceptually based image quality for printing systems, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC28, the standardization committee for office equipment chartered the W1.1 project with the responsibility of drafting a proposal for an international standard for the evaluation of printed image quality1. An ISO draft Standard2, ISO/WD 19751-1, Office Equipment - Appearance-based image quality standards for printers - Part 1: Overview, Procedure and Common Methods, 2004 describes the overview of this multi-part appearance-based image quality standard. One of the ISO 19751 multi-part Standard’s tasks is to address the appearance-based gloss and gloss uniformity issues (in ISO 19751-2). This paper summarizes the current status and technical progress since the last two updates3, 4. In particular, we will be discussion our attempt to include 75 degree gloss (G75) objective measurement5 in differential gloss and within-page gloss uniformity. The result for a round-robin experiment involving objective measurement of differential gloss using G60 and G75 gloss measurement geometry is described. The results for two perceptual-based round-robin experiments relating to haze effect on the perception of gloss, and gloss artifacts (gloss streaks/bands, gloss graininess/mottle) are discussed.

Printing system perceptual-based gloss and gloss uniformity standard (INCITS W1.1)

To address the standarization issues of perceptually based image quality for printing systems, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC28, the standarization committee for office equipment charactered the W1.1 project with the responsibiltiy of drafting a proposal for an international standard for the evaluation of printed image quality. One of the W1.1 task teams is charactered to address the issue of Gloss and Gloss Uniformity. This paper summarizes the current status and technical progress of this ad hoc team in 2003.

Differential gloss quality scale experiment update: an appearance-based image quality standard initiative (INCITS W1.1)

Surface characteristics of a printed sample command a parallel group of visual attributes determining perceived image quality beyond color, and they manifest themselves through various perceived gloss features such as differential gloss, gloss granularity, gloss mottle, etc. Extending from the scope of ISO19799 with limited range of gloss level and printing technologies, the objective of this study is to derive an appearance-based differential gloss quality scale ranging from very low gloss level to very high gloss level composed by various printing technology/substrate combinations. Three psychophysical experiment procedures were proposed including the quality ruler method, pair comparison, and interval scaling with two anchor stimuli, where the pair comparison process was subsequently dropped because of the concern of experiment complexity and data consistency after preliminary trial study. In this paper, we will compare the obtained average quality scale after mapping to the sharpness quality ruler with the average perceived differential gloss via the interval scale. Our numerical analysis indicates a general inverse relationship between the perceived image quality and the gloss variation on an image.