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Free color control

Continuing with its program to reward and verify legal Windows installations, Microsoft is offering another free gadget for the good guys. ICC profiles can be used to match the colors on your monitor to the colors used by your printer.


Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet

The Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet adds a new 'Color' item to the Windows control panel, providing a single place to view and edit color management settings in Windows XP. Using it, you can install and uninstall color profiles, change color profile associations for displays, printers and scanners, view detailed properties for color profiles (including a 3D rendering of the color space gamut), and rename color profiles, keeping the filenames and "internal" names consistent.

The ICC was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors for the purpose of creating, promoting and encouraging the standardization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and components.

The intent of the International Color Consortium (R) profile format is to provide a cross-platform device profile format. Device profiles can be used to translate color data created on one device into another device's native color space. It allows users to be sure that their image will retain its color fidelity when moved between systems and applications.