Color Scanners--The Color of Digital Originals

The migration from scanning in CMYK formats to the CIELAB format, which offers flexible re-purposing using ICC-standard profiling, is promoting faster adoption of device-independent, multimedia publishing workflows, asserts Rogers.

"Apple and Microsoft have become serious in their involvement by utilizing Heidelberg's LinoColor CIELAB-based color management engine in their operating systems," Rogers reports. "The move to CIELAB scanning is further fueled by moves to make CTP devices, as well as RIPs, part of the ICC workflow."