Designing the color palette for textile material printing process

The textile printing process uses a specific set of inks, deposited on the material in a certain order, through individual ink masks. Designing the textile material printing process requires to find the ink color set, named the primary color palette, the sequence of ink mask printing, and the individual ink masks. A secondary color palette is defined as the set of all the color combinations resulted by overlapping the ink masks. The paper provides a color separation method which converts the input color components to the ink mask values. The color separation uses tetrahedral interpolation and a decomposition process, based on the hierarchy structure of the secondary color palette