Color reproduction of fluorescent full-color prints depends on many factors, such as preparation of luminescent inks, ratio of luminescent inks to each other, printing technology and so on. In order to make color expression more abundant on fluorescent full-color prints, reconstruction
of fluorescence emission spectrum is particularly significant. As opposed to custom methods, principal component analysis has been applied to color science permanently. The method was applied to emission spectral reconstruction in this work and the up-conversion luminescent inks were selected.
336 samples were composed of single ink halftone at a quarter, half, 75%, and 100% surface coverages. The samples were firstly superimposed in one ink and two inks on the blank paper. Moreover, their emission spectral was measured and the procedure for principal component analysis was also
performed. The emission spectral was reconstructed by using 1 nm interval from 351 nm to 748 nm. Ultimately, the accuracy of recovery spectral was evaluated through CIEDE2000 color difference evaluation. The obtained results indicated that principal component analysis can be used to reconstruct
emission spectra. Besides, the method can also be used for color estimation between different printing materials.