Three colour measurement devices make up the range of hardware that feed measurements into the firm's ICC profile-based Profile-Xport software.

Colour Palette Spectro 50xy, the principal instrument in the Kaleidoscope range, creates ICC profiles by automatically measuring reflection.

The Colour Sleuth densitometer measures and displays colour values separately, and also calculates deviations from previously stored standard reference values.

A third product, the Colour Eye, is a screen sensor that works with Profile-Xpert to calibrate both LCD and CRT screens to users' required values.

ICG's Profile-Xpert software will drive all three instruments, and produce the ICC profiles and curves for the display calibration.

ICG colour specialist Chas May said that the products aimed to "make colour management available to everybody who wishes to use it".

"If approached in the correct manner, as far as installation and training are concerned, most users become proficient very quickly. Colour management is not a black art."

The Kaleidoscope launch comes as ICG nears completion on a scanner that is planned to replace its flagship A3 vertical drum 380 machine.

At the project's outset, the firm was aiming for a winter 2005 release in time for next year's Ipex.

Story by Josh Brooks