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Introduction

    What is an ICC Profile?

    ICC stands for the full form Of International Color Consortium.

    Within color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the device source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS). This PCS is either CIELAB (L*a*b*) or CIEXYZ. Mappings may be specified using tables, to which interpolation is applied, or through a series of parameters for transformations.

    In daily practical printing process, it’s easy to understand the function of ICC profile can communicate the color information from native device to destination device correctly. It helps us to achieve the ideal printing result.

    For details please refer to this web site http://www.color.org/iccprofile.xalter

    Why & What - Custom ICC Profile Workflow

    The Color Separation Concept for Desktop Publishing System

    Nowadays, almost the Printing Workflow are being operated under a certain Computer Operating System and applying some professional software, such as Macintosh or Windows system with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign etc. Designers can directly and easily control the whole printing workflow from end to end. But an ordinary process cannot complete the task.

    Being a high-end commercial business - Offset Printing needs a series of very professional procedure to reproduce high quality printing, one of the most important procedure is called Color Separation.

    To convert the different color mode and separate it to CMYK four different phase, that we need a lot of techniques and experience to make the setting, base on the Color Communication Concept, the color scientists and the programmers designed a series programs and method to help us to succeed offset color printing, The Series Programs and Method that is what we want mention and why we need the workflow.