International Color Consortium

The International Color Consortium (ICC) was formed in 1993 by eight vendors in order to create an open, vendor-neutral color management system which would function transparently across all operating systems and software packages.

International Color Consortium
AbbreviationICC
MottoMaking color seamless between devices and documents
Formation1993 (1993)
TypeConsortium
PurposePromote the use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management systems.
HeadquartersReston, Virginia, U.S.
Region served
Worldwide
Co-Chairs
William Li (Kodak), Tom Lianza (X-Rite)
Key people
Kip Smythe (Secretary), Phil Green (Technical Secretary)
WebsiteInternational Color Consortium

The ICC specification, currently on version 4.3,[1] allows for matching of color when moved between applications and operating systems, from the point of creation to the final output, whether display or print. This specification is technically identical to ISO 15076-1:2010, available from ISO.

The ICC profile describes the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS).

The ICC defines the specification precisely but does not define algorithms or processing details. As such, applications or systems that work with different ICC profiles are allowed to vary.

ICC has also published a preliminary specification for iccMAX, a next-generation color management architecture with significantly expanded functionality and a choice of colorimetric, spectral, or material connection space. Details are at http://www.color.org/iccmax/

ICC profile specification version
Profile version According specification Notes
2.0.0 ICC 3.0 (jun 1994), 3.01 (May 1995)
2.1.0 ICC 3.2 (nov 1995), 3.3 (nov 1996), 3.4 (aug 1997)
2.2.0 ICC.1:1998-09
2.3.0 ICC.1A:1999-04 Addendum to ICC.1:1998-09
2.4.0 ICC.1:2001-04 Minor revision for web of ICC.1:1998-09
4.0.0 ICC.1:2001-12 Revision of ICC.1:2001-04
4.1.0 ICC.1:2003-09
4.2.0 ICC.1:2004-4 Revision of ICC.1:2003-09
4.2.0 ICC.1:2004-10 Revision of ICC.1:2003-09
4.3.0 ICC.1:2010-12 Technically identical to ISO 15076-1:2010

Membership

The eight founding members of the ICC were Adobe, Agfa, Apple, Kodak, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Taligent.

Since then Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Taligent have left the organization, and many other firms have become ICC members, including, as of January 2011, Canon, Fuji, Fujitsu, Heidelberg Printing Machines AG, Hewlett–Packard, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, NEC, Nikon, Nokia, OKI Data, Sun Chemical, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, and X-Rite.[2]

At the beginning of 2014, ICC membership has grown to a total of 61 members, including their founding, regular, and honorary members. Aside from members of the photography, printing, and painting industry, new members from several different industries include MathWorks, Nokia, Sony Corporation, and Signazon.com.[3]

See also

References
  1. Specification ICC.1:2010-12 , 2010 revision of the ICC profile standard
  2. "ICC Members". Archived from the original on 2010-04-19. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  3. ICC Members


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