This document titled ‘The Future of Color Management’ discusses the evolution of color management in various industries, with a focus on the impact of technology and the role of the International Color Consortium (ICC). Here are some key points:
– The document starts by discussing the traditional image reproduction industry, which was primarily dominated by photographic science. The introduction of instant print film was a game changer as it eliminated the need for a middle man (Page 5).
– The advent of microprocessors changed the industry significantly. Computers became personal and image reproduction devices went from black and white to being able to reproduce 16.8 million colors (Page 6).
– The ICC was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors with the goal of creating, promoting, and encouraging the evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and components (Page 8).
– The ICC chose CIE D50 and the CIE 1931 2° Observer for color reproduction. It was claimed that color reproduction relied on gray tones and D65 made the tones appear too blue (Page 11).
– With the publication of ISO 20677 in 2019, things changed again. New hardware and software capabilities allowed increased freedom in color reproduction (Page 12).
– The document also discusses the pre-history of color management, noting that in the 1980s, a lot was happening in color technology. Traditional industries like textile dyeing, paint tinting, and plastic extrusion were becoming digitized (Page 14).
– The document concludes by discussing the technological gap between imaging and non-imaging industries and the new documents on measurements by the CIE and the ISO (Pages 17-19).
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