International Color Consortium . It was formed in 1993 by eight industry vendors to create an open vendor-independent color management system that would work seamlessly across all operating systems and software packages .
The ICC specification , currently in version 4.3, enables color play when moving between applications and operating systems , from the point of creation to final production, whether it is viewing or printing. This specification is technically identical to ISO 15076-1: 2010, available from ISO . The ICC profile that describes the color attributes of a particular device or display requirement by defining a mapping between the font or color spacetarget and a profile connection space. The International Criminal Court defines the precision format, but does not define the algorithms or processing details. This means that there is scope for variation between different applications and systems that work with ICC profiles.
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 companies have become members of the ICC, including, as of January 2011 , Canon, Fuji, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark, Sun Chemical, and X-Rite.
