Candela Makes Available Complete Suite of Color Management Libraries.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 1996--Managing color in graphics and publishing environments requires that digitally communicated color be not only consistent but also the highest quality. Candela announced today, on its sixth anniversary, that it is making available a suite of color management libraries, called "CandelaColorSuite," that provides color control across a wide range of computing platforms, color spaces and color imaging devices, including scanners, monitors and printers. -0- T* The CandelaColorSuite provides a rich set of color application design tools on a wide range of platforms, including: -- PC (Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1 and DOS) -- Apple Macintosh and Power Macintosh -- Silicon Graphics (IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. ) -- DEC Alpha (Windows NT) -- IBM RS/6000 (AIX) -- Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (Solaris 1.x & 2.x) T* -0- In 1992, Candela's co-founder and VP R & D, Bruce Lindbloom, designed the Candela Color Management System Software that translates the colors of an original image into the truest representation obtainable on the output device. Color management works from a profile of the output device, typically a digital printer or offset press, and works backward to the source of the material such as a (CCMS CCMS Computing Center Management System CCMS Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (NATO) CCMS Child Care Management Services CCMS Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science CCMS Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome ) which is licensed by the likes of Corel Corp., CCI Europe, LaserMaster, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. and several others. This innovative color tool box set the standard for "C" callable libraries for scientists, engineers and programmers developing color products and services. Now Candela is releasing its powerful Color Profile Library, the color engine beneath Candela's award-winning ColorSynergy color management end-user Macintosh application. The Color Profile Library allows precision color device profiles to be easily made for all types of scanners, monitors and printers. Supported color types are grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in , RGB, CMY, CMYK, PhotoYCC and CIELAB. Another key library in the CandelaColorSuite is the Profile Export Library that allows Candela Device profiles (created with ColorSynergy or the Color Profile Library) to be combined and exported into various industry standard formats including ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce device profiles, PostScript Level 2 Color Rendering Dictionaries and tables for Adobe Photoshop. The remaining two suite libraries are the ColorCircuit Transform (CCT) Library and the Image Format Library. The CCT Library is usually implemented in RIPs or device drivers to transform ColorCircuits made with other Candela products. The Image Format Library provides high-level, format-independent access to many file formats such as BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . , DCS, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. , Scitex CT, Targa and TIFF. With CandelaColorSuite, developers can now solve system-wide color management problems with the same quality as done by Candela using its precision 3-dimensional, nonlinear, non-separable transforms via Candela ColorCircuits. ColorCircuits are the only profile type executable on all computing platforms that are supported by ANSI C compilers. Candela ColorSuite is compatible with the most industry digital color standards of any set of library products on the market. Candela Ltd. provides high-precision, digital color technology to customers in the color desktop publishing and printing industries. For more information about licensing the CandelaColorSuite or other Candela digital color technology, contact John Grimaldi at 612/894-8890 or via e-mail at candela@candelacolor.com. -0- Note to Editors: ColorSynergy, ColorCircuit and Candela are registered trademarks of Candela Ltd. CONTACT: Candela Ltd. John E. Grimaldi, 612/894-8890 john@candelacolor.com |
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