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Standards that refer to ICC profiles

The ICC profile specification ISO 15076-1, is widely referred to in other standards. The International and de-facto standards listed below are known to make reference to ICC profiles. Standards refer either to a specific dated version of ISO 15076-1 (e.g. ISO 15076-1:2010), or to the undated ISO 15076-1. Profiles conforming to different versions of ISO 15076-1 are interoperable, and a conforming CMM will read and apply any conforming profile.

Most image file format specifications and standards allow embedding of ICC profiles. Details of embedding requirements are identified at http://www.color.org/profile_embedding.html.

ICC recommends that standards refer to the undated specification, in order to avoid limiting applications to using older versions.

Since many standards refer to ISO 15076-1:2010, and to avoid this version becoming unavailable from ISO when the specification is updated, ICC has proposed that a future revision shall be referred to as ISO 15076-2.

International Standards

ISO/IEC 10918-1 Coding of still pictures - JPEG
ISO 12234-4 Photography - Electronic still-picture imaging - Part 4: Exchangeable image file format (Exif 2.2)
ISO 12647-1 Graphic Technology - Process control for the production of halftone colour separations, proof and production prints - Part 1: Parameters and measurement methods
ISO 12647-2: Graphic Technology - Process control for the production of halftone colour separations, proof and production prints - Part 2: Offset processes
ISO 12647-3 Graphic technology - Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proofs and production prints - Part 3: Coldset offset lithography on newsprint
ISO 12647-4 Graphic technology - Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints - Part 4: Publication gravure printing
ISO 12647-6 Graphic technology - Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints - Part 6: Flexographic printing
ISO 12647-7 Graphic technology - Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints - Part 7: Proofing processes working directly from digital data
ISO/IEC 15948 Portable Network Graphics file format
ISO/IEC 15444 Coding of still pictures - JPEG2000
ISO/IEC 15444-2 Information technology - JPEG 2000 image coding system: Extensions
ISO 15930-1 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange - Use of PDF. Part 1: Complete exchange using CMYK data (PDF/X-1 and PDF/X-1a)
ISO 15930-3 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange - Use of PDF. Part 3: Complete exchange suitable for colour managed workflows (PDF/X-3)
ISO 15930-4 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange using PDF - Part 4: Complete exchange of CMYK and spot colour printing data using PDF 1.4 (PDF/X-1a)
ISO 15930-5 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange using PDF - Part 5: Partial exchange of printing data using PDF 1.4 (PDF/X-2)
ISO 15930-6 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange using PDF - Part 6: Complete exchange of printing data suitable for colour-managed workflows using PDF 1.4 (PDF/X-3)
ISO 15930-7:2008 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange using PDF - Part 7: Complete exchange of printing data (PDF/X-4) and partial exchange of printing data with external profile reference (PDF/X-4p) using PDF 1.6
ISO 15930-8:2010 Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange using PDF - Part 8: Partial exchange of printing data using PDF 1.6 (PDF/X-5)
ISO 16612-2:2010 Graphic technology - Variable data exchange - Part 2: Using PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 (PDF/VT-1 and PDF/VT-2)
ISO 19005-2:2011 Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A-2)
ISO 19005-3:2012 Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Part 3: Use of ISO 32000-1 with support for embedded files (PDF/A-3)
ISO 19005-4:2020 Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Part 4: Use of ISO 32000-2 (PDF/A-4)
ISO 19445:2016 Graphic technology - Metadata for graphic arts workflow - XMP metadata for image and document proofing
ISO 22028-1 Photography and Graphic Technology - Extended colour encodings for digital image storage, manipulation and interchange - Part 1: Architecture and requirements
ISO 32000-1:2008 Document management - Portable document format - Part 1: PDF 1.7
ISO 32000-2:2020 Document management - Portable document format - Part 2: PDF 2.0

De-facto standards

PICT standard specifications (file format published by Apple Computer Inc.)
Postscript Language (EPS file format published by Adobe Systems Inc.)
Digital Negative (DNG file format published by Adobe Systems Inc.)
JDF v1.7 (Job Definition format published by the CIP4 consortium available from www.cip4.org)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) version 2 (file format defined by W3C available from www.w3.org/TR/SVG)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). The CSS Color Module 3 specification is available from www.w3.org/TR/css3-color-3/
OpenXPS ECMA-388 OpenXML Paper Specification