Wide Format Scanner Technical Terms

ICC Profiles / ICM Prociles

ICC (or ICM) profiles describe the color characteristics of scanners, printers, monitors etc. The profiles are used in a color management system to ensure that printed and / or viewed colors match the colors on the original scanned document. (ICC and ICM profiles are the same, but the profile files have different extensions.)

ScanWorks software allows externally created ICC profiles to be embedded into any scan so that when the file is displayed on an appropriate viewer or printed its color will be correctly interpreted according to the profile.

CopySmart software has a built in Calibration Wizard that produces ICC profiles for the scanner, monitor and any attached printer.