Summer 2006
Working Dr. Joan Mitchell at IBM, I analyzed the effects of color management on grayscale printing. Working on an IBM speed team (3 interns and 2 employees), to help IBM analyze the benefits of switching from color to grayscale.
Working Dr. Joan Mitchell at IBM, I analyzed the effects of color management on grayscale printing. Working on an IBM speed team (3 interns and 2 employees), to help IBM analyze the benefits of switching from color to grayscale. As mass printing is switching to color printing, large amounts of investment will need to be made to switch company's logos/brouchures/etc. from grayscale to color. To alleviate this overhead cost, IBM is encouraging its clients to submit color images and still print them in gray, so that the transition will be more seamless.
IBM was curious to see how the quality of the image would change when color images were printed in grayscale. This involved using "color management" that shifted images from color to grayscale.
My role was to develop algorithms to print the colored images. As this was not on the market yet, I had to develop my own printer code (like assembly language) to send color images across and have them print using the "color management" feature. This was quite challenging as I had to be resourceful on how to print AFP code - often times talking to the people who created the standards for the code for advice.
In the end I was able to create a Java program, that would create a customized AFP code that could then be sent to programs.
I helped develop a Flash presentation for the final project.
Overall, our groups research was published at IBM and is now used by sales represenatives to show the