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 <i>ad hoc</i> 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.