General Information

This Python script is used for the automatic generation of several special print pages. These print pages are combined to create a specific amount of samples. The description of there samples are as follows: The base colors of a commercial printer (Cyan (C), Magenta (M) and Yellow (Y)) are subsequently printed on top of each other. An example would be the sample CCMMYY where there are six layers in total and the base colors are layered from left to right. A graphical representation of there samples can be reviewed in the attached PDF document "concept_art_printing".

Background

The print samples are designed to be analyzed in two US/vis spectroscopy setups. Samples that are analyzed by an UV/vis reflection measurement are bigger then samples analyzed in a UV/vis extinction setup. For each setup, a separate version of the script is published.

The colors of the individual layers are distributed over several print pages to save space. To create a set of samples, a print page series must be printed (one by one) on a sheet of substrate with a DIN A4 form factor. The amount of print page series are tied to the layer count of the samples. This is because a full factorial DoE aims to generate all possible color combinations of C, M and Y for the set number of layers.

Additional package dependencies

1. numpy
2. matplotlib
3. pyDOE2