Better-looking pictures

Although colour printers are constantly being improved to produce better results, manufacturers appear to favour trial and error methods in their research. Researchers of the Pattern Recognition &#38 Image Processing group at Delft University of Technology are looking for a scientific and more general measure of quality to judge colour prints by. They are the first to have successfully devised a method that allows the preprocessing of digital images to take into account the fundamental limitations of any printing device. The results, for which a patent is pending, may help computer printers to produce images with better chromaticity