ICC was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors for the purpose of creating, promoting and encouraging the standardisation and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform colour management system architecture and components.
Li is colour systems engineer of Kodak Graphic Communications Group and Holm is principal colour scientist in HP’s office of strategy and technology.
The ICC met recently in Tokyo, Japan to elect the new officers and a new steering committee comprising representatives from the five founding members of the ICC: Agfa, Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Eastman Kodak and Sun Microsystems, and 11 regular members: Canon Development Americas, Colour Savvy Systems, Fuji Photo Film, GretagMacbeth, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark International CPD, Onyx Graphics, Quebecor World, X-rite and Xerox.
The sixty-seven member companies of the ICC worldwide elect the committee to represent the broad range of industries that the ICC serves, from its roots in graphic arts and photography, to its newer involvement in support of the motion picture industry transition to digital.
Along with the ICC meeting, its host, Fuji Photo Film, held the first Japan-ICC Experts Session on colour management which was attended by technical experts from Japanese, US, and European corporations. Session topics included colour management for new display technologies and soft proofing, digital camera raw files and high-fidelity capture, printing and OS integration, digital motion picture production, and next generation colour management system architectures and workflows.
In addition, the ICC began development of guidelines for implementation and use of ICC profiles with the new Microsoft WindowsTM Colour System (WCS). When it is launched with the Microsoft VistaTM operating system, WCS will for the first time bring Version 4 ICC support to a Microsoft OS. The ICC has prepared an introductory white paper outlining various ICC colour management approaches, providing a first look at using ICC profiles on the VistaTM OS.
