Editing ColorSync (section)

==Version history==

Apple developed the original 1.0 version of ColorSync as a Mac-only architecture, which made it into an operating system release in 1993. In the same year, Apple co-founded the [[International Color Consortium]] (ICC) to develop a [[cross-platform]] profile format which became part of ColorSync 2.0.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MacTech {{!}} The journal of Apple technology. |url=http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_23/printhints.html |access-date=2023-12-14 |website=preserve.mactech.com}}</ref> The system ''Color Management Module'' (CMM) was "LinoColorCMM", which was developed by Linotype-Hell AG (now part of [[Heidelberger Druckmaschinen]] AG). The same CMM was used in Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP under the rubric of "Image Color Management" (ICM){{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}. Apple, with the help of [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] had ported ColorSync 2.0 and its [[Software development kit|SDK]] to [[Microsoft Windows]]. With ColorSync 3.0, the Windows version which was initially planned was discontinued. ColorSync 4.0 is the latest version, introduced in [[Mac OS X]] [[Mac OS X 10.1|10.1]].