IT8

It is intended to address the color transparency products that are generally used for input to the preparatory process for printing and publishing.

This standard defines the layout and colorimetric values of a target that can be manufactured on any positive color transparency film and that is intended for use in the calibration of a photographic film/scanner combination.

It is intended to address the color photographic paper products that are generally used for input to the preparatory process for printing and publishing.

The output data (characterization) file should be transferred with any four-color (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) halftone image files to enable a color transformation to be undertaken when required.

These targets consists of 24 grey fields and 264 color fields in 22 columns: After scanning such a target, an ICC profile gets calculated on the basis of reference values.

This is an IT8 color target made in EGM Laboratories in Barcelona, Spain. It has a very big gamut, slightly bigger than Adobe RGB color space .