This study shows applicability of some methods which predict the color reproduction of a multicolor halftone image with respect to the RGB filter reflection density and the reflective tristimulus values in CIE
XYZ. The first method tested in this paper applies the Neugebauer's equation, which predicts the color reproduction of transmission light at ink layers, to a model which predicts the tone reproduction of a single color halftone suggested by Clapper and Yule in 1955. The second method is a combination of two laws, one is a convergence point law applied to the low and middle density ranges, another is a density additivity law limited by the surface reflection applied to the high density range. It is acertained that both methods are effective to predict the RGB filter density. On the other hand, it is recognized that only the first method is effective to predict the
XYZ values. The reason is that the
XYZ tristimuli are not complementary colors of CMY primary colors, while the convergence point law promises this relations implicitly.
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