Plenty of photo printers offer special features to adjust the color and lighting in your images. But sometimes the functionality takes time to learn, and the colors don’t always come out the way you want. In an effort to make it easier to adjust colors, Xerox has developed Natural Language Color, a technology that lets you tell the printer how you want your colors to look.
In the current online demo version, the command system is made up of four dropdowns. You choose the word(s) you want from each dropdown, and when you put your four choices together, you get a full command (e.g. “all cyan colors a lot more bright”). You can create up to ten commands. When you’re ready to see how your color edits look, you click “Apply Changes” to view the adjusted image.
As of now, Natural Language Color technology is only available for the Xerox Phaser 7500 as a feature called Color By Words. Personally, short of actually reading your mind, I’m not totally convinced about the utility of a command tool for editing colors, especially since the word choices in the dropdowns aren’t exactly your own anyway. But Color By Words could be a notable first step in improving photo quality for hobbyists who can get used to the phraseology.
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