1. A method for characterizing a printed droplet within an image, the method comprising: segmenting the image into foreground pixels and background pixels; defining a plurality of discrete components within the image by identifying bounded regions of adjacent foreground pixels; identifying the printed droplet by associating a first connected component with a second connected component, both of which are in the plurality of connected components, if a distance between the first and second connected components is less than a threshold; and analyzing the printed droplet by quantifying at least one droplet image property.