The European Color Initiative (ECI) is an expert group that is concerned with media-neutral reproduction of color data in digital publication systems. It was formed in June 1996 by German publishers

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. ECI offers several

ICC profile In 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 ...

s to be downloaded for free from their website to improve

color management In digital imaging systems, color management (or colour management) is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printe ...

across publishing houses. This includes their very own ECI-RGB as recommended working color space on screen and ECI-CMYK (Fogra 53) for printing processes. They also offer test charts for device characterization.

RGB

The ECI-RGB color space, sometimes written ECI RGB or eciRGB, is a standardized

RGB color space An RGB color space is any additive color space based on the RGB color model. An RGB color space is defined by chromaticity coordinates of the red, green, and blue additive primaries, the white point which is usually a standard illuminant, a ...

using the D50 white point ( CIE xy: 0.34567, 0.35850) and

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color primaries: red 0.67, 0.33; green 0.21, 0.71; blue 0.14, 0.08. Its wide gamut covers most mass printing technologies and all current display technologies. Version 1 was released in 1999 and a mostly compatible, updated version 2 was published in April 2007, which was later republished as international standard ISO 22028-4:2012.

CMYK

The ECI-CMYK color space, sometimes written ECI CMYK or eciCMYK, is a standardized

CMYK color space The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. The abbreviation ''CMYK'' refers ...

for graphic data exchange in the print industry. It is equivalent to Fogra 53, often spelt FOGRA53, and is intended to overcome limitations of and thereby replace the ''ISO Coated'' CMYK exchange color space (version 2 = Fogra 39, version 3 = Fogra 51).

World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
* ROMM RGB (ISO 22028-2), ''reference output medium metric RGB colour image encoding'', also known as Kodak ProPhoto RGB * RIMM RGB (ISO 22028-3), ''reference input medium metric RGB colour image encoding''
ISO 12640-1:1997
''Prepress digital data exchange — Part 1: CMYK standard colour image data (CMYK/SCID)''
ISO 12647-2:2013
and ISO/AWI 12647-2 (under development), ''Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints — Part 2: Offset lithographic processes'' for "ISO Coated"
ISO 16760:2014
''Preparation and visualization of RGB images to be used in RGB-based graphics arts workflow''
ISO 19302:2018
''Colour conformity of printing workflows''

References

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External links

Official Website of the European Color Initiative

ECI working color spaces
Color Electronic publishing

RGB

CMYK

See also

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