The expansion of digital still cameras into the consumer market has provided opportunities for photographic amateurs to enjoy new digital imaging. Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. has started the Fiji Digital Imaging Service (F-DI) from 1997. The F-DI DSC print service is one of the features which provides photographic prints from the data obtained by digital still cameras. Below, the concept of the F-DI DSC print service is described and the algorithm adopted for printing is discussed. Since digital still cameras are developed such that the images will originally be displayed on CRT monitors, it is necessary to achieve new technical development for this particular service. New algorithms including the scene color balance algorithm and the density correction algorithm are described. The conditions necessary to obtain excellent prints are also explained.

Date Published: 22 December 1998
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 3648, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts IV, (22 December 1998); doi: 10.1117/12.334553

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3648:
Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts IV
Giordano B. Beretta; Reiner Eschbach, Editor(s)