Comparison image color-reduction methods based on FCM, K-Means and SOM to fabric printing

Fabric printing consists of three main steps: Design preparation, Screen making and Printing on fabric. In the preparation step the quantity of every color indicates one screen to be executed; this means that one image could not be ready for printing with thousands of colors because this industry is facing limitations for selecting the color quantity on the fabric therefore color Reduction is known as one of the major parameters in this industry which is generally done by hand (in manual mode). It has been tried in this article to identify and investigate the most optimum method of fabric printing by comparing suitable methods of image color Reduction based on FCM, K-Means, SOM. Results shows that FCM methods has more acceptable result than two others.