Apple Computer Corp gave details of its ColorSync technology at the Seybold Publishing seminar in New York recently. The technology is intended to keep colors stable across various platforms and the company is now porting the technology to Windows and consumer and business devices such as digital cameras, printers and scanners. ColorSync works by calibrating and matching colors independently of the device it is installed upon. The technology has already been endorsed by DTP specialist, Adobe, and ColorSync will probably initially have most impact in the publishing and web fields. Color matching, may help to smooth the transition of documents between various DTP applications. It should also break the tyranny of the web site design by allowing the use of more than just over two hundred colors, the current prescribed ‘palette’ that is common to both the Microsoft windows and Macintosh platforms.
