What happens when you send your latest color presentation by fax to a colleague? He gets a black-and-white copy, and all your beautiful graphics have suddenly lost a large part of their information value. But now, researchers at Xerox Corporation have found a way to recover the original colors from a print made on a black-and-white printer, fax or copier. Instead of converting colors to different shades of gray, the Xerox researchers have developed a method to change each color into a different texture or pattern in an image. Theoretically, these algorithms could be integrated within the software of a black-and-white printer, but it will certainly take a while before such a method is adopted by Xerox's competitors. Read more...
Sources: Xerox Corporation, November 16, 2005; and various web sites
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