HP RIP Software - HP RIP Software User Guide

4-2 What Are Color Profiles?
What Are Color
Profiles?
The RIP enables you to create and edit custom color profiles, which
measure, or characterize, the color properties of a specific media and
ink combination to ensure accurate and consistent color matching
between prints.
When you create a profile, it is saved in the International Color Consor-
tium, or ICC (.ICM), format. (See the ICC web site at www.color.org for
more information about ICC profiles.) The profiles are used by the RIP
or by applications on a client workstation.
The ICC color profiles are described in a platform-independent format
and can be used to translate color data created on one device into
another device’s native color space. The ICC color profile standard
allows:
• End users to transparently move profiles and images with embed-
ded profiles across different locations, operating systems, and
applications
• Device manufacturers to create a single color profile for multiple
operating systems