COLOR CONTROL -- Managing the Variables

Carli lays a good part of the blame for the earlier failure of color management at the feet of the International Color Consortium (ICC).

"It overspent on technical development and underspent on marketing research," he says. "The industry as a whole didn't have a concrete plan for color management. Vendors didn't make clear what was real today versus what they hoped would be real in five to 10 years. Expectations for interoperability (between device types and media), in particular, were set too high," the researcher concludes.