HD-TV Printing Test Images and Print Quality Comparative Test Results

Hardware system and software system of HD-TV (High Definition TV, called Hivision in Japan) become gradually wide spread in many industrial application fields like movie, printing, medical use, display in museum etc. (Nakajima 1992). In these fields, the printing industry is one of the most promising areas because of high image quality of HD-TV. Further, new image input media e.g. photo-print-CD, HD-TV images, still camera images, Computer Graphics images etc. are effectively used gradually instead of usual photographic film and in the near future these digital media are mainly used instead of usual photographic film because of convenience and quickness of image input process. This paper shows two kinds of HD-TV test images and the image quality evaluation test results using these test images.