International Color Consortium

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The International Color Consortium (ICC) is a consortium for the standardization of color management systems for all operating systems and software packages .

The ICC was founded in 1993 by eight industrial companies and is currently based in Reston, Virginia .

A well-known result is a standard for describing color profiles, the ICC profile .

Members

The founding members of the ICC were Adobe Inc. , Agfa , Apple , Eastman Kodak , Sun Microsystems , Microsoft , Silicon Graphics and Taligent .

Since its inception, some members, including Sun and Microsoft, have left the ICC. Other members have joined. These include Canon , Fuji Photo , Fuji Xerox , Fujitsu , Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG , Hewlett-Packard , Konica Minolta , Kyocera , Lexmark , NEC Corporation , Nikon , Nokia , Okidata , Samsung , Seiko Epson , Sharp , Sony , Toshiba and Xerox .

Honorary members are the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Lausanne (EPFL), Fogra Forschungsgesellschaft Druck eV, Dalarna University , London College of Communication , Rochester Institute of Technology and Western Michigan University .

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