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The ICC Profile is a color management tool developed by the International Color Consortium (ICC), a group that was established in 1993 by eight Graphic Arts Industry vendors. An ICC profile is created using the "fingerprint" of a device's color gamut capacity. The ICC profile provided by The New York Times is specific to the color reproduction capabilities of our non-heatset web offset presses printing on newsprint.
Graphic arts professionals who are creating advertising material for reproduction in the New York Times can use our NYT profile as a tool to adjust the continuous tone images within their files. Applying the profile in the preview mode in Photoshop gives the artist a soft proof representation of what to expect on press, and the images can be adjusted accordingly.
To download the New York Times ICC Profile:
MAC: Hold down the "Option" key and CLICK HERE
PC: "Right click" on the below link and select "Save Target As"
ICC PROFILE
Do not try to launch/open or use this profile in any other way. This profile (ISOnewspaper30v4GCR4.icm) in effect as of 7/05.
NYT Color Profile Set-Up for Photoshop 5.0
- Place the ICC.icm file in the Color Sync folder in the SYSTEMS folder.
- Launch Photoshop 5.0.
- File
- Color Settings
- CMYK Setup
- CMYK Model: ICC
- Profile: NYT Press Profile Name
- Engine: Built In
- Intent: Perceptual
- DO NOT select Black Point Compensation
- OK
- Place the ICC.icm file in the Color Sync folder in the SYSTEMS folder.
NYT Color Profile Set-Up for Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0
- Place the ICC.icm file in the Color Sync folder in the SYSTEMS folder.
- Launch Photoshop 6.0.
- View
- Proof Setup
- Custom
- Profile: NYT Color Profile
- Check the Preserve Color Number box and click on the Preview box in the lower right hand corner.
- You are now set up to color correct your files using the NYT ICC Profile.
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Fact #11
Nearly half (48%) of NYTimes.com readers are Influentials, five times the national rate.
- Source: NYTimes.com Audience Survey conducted by Roper Gfk, June 2005
