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Useful links

www.color.org

The official web site of the I.C.C. (International Color Consortium).
You can download there the whole technical specifications of I.C.C. architecture and profiles.

Be careful however : The adhesion of a commercial Company to the I.C.C. is not a pledge of quality of its products. Not more a quality proof than a Pantone certification or a Brunner control bar on a color proof!

Among I.C.C. members, several important Vendors whose printers, scanners or software are unable to correctly use (or create) I.C.C. profiles. 

As for any other "Business to business" Market, it belongs to the End User to assess the real quality of products. The Vendor is never held for responsible of selling non working or badly designed products, because he is not supposed to have the knowledge nor the expertise of his Customers!

I.C.C. have however the great merit of putting at disposal of all H/W and S/W developers the full free technical specifications of "I.C.C. profiles " (named "Colorsync profiles" by Apple Computers), in the form of complete downloadable pdf files.

www.eci.org

Very useful and free information in English and German and Spanish on the web site of European Color Initiative (ECI) with many interesting downloads.

www.fogra.org

Very useful and free information in English and German on the web site of Fogra
See in particular the Media Wedge CMKY 2.0 control bars designed for colorimetric control of digital proofs, control which can be made for free with MeasureTool module of GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker software. Use of the Control Bar file is subjected to license of use, but all is available so that you can first make all your tests for free.

Iso standards

The ISO page about on-going projects in progress for Graphic technologies

 

 
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