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CHROMiX, Inc. was founded in 1998 to provide technical services and products to businesses in content-production industries. We dedicate our efforts to color management and image fidelity, and combine an excellent suite of tools, including our own popular ColorThink products, with years of industry experience. With customers, dealers and partners in over 83 countries, CHROMiX is uniquely qualified to serve the imaging industries. More information is available at www.chromix.com.
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CHROMiX, a Seattle-based provider of color management software, is collaborating with the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering to improve an online color management profiling service for high-end imaging customers.
UW will receive $19,999 in Phase I Research and Technology Development funding from Washington Technology Center and $4,000 from CHROMiX for the project titled “Estimation for Color Management.”
As the worldwide volume of printed material has steadily increased, customer expectations of image quality have also been rising. One major component of image quality is correct color reproduction. However, color management software is costly and often out of reach of quality-conscious consumers.
In this Phase I project, UW Assistant Professor Maya R. Gupta plans to transfer algorithmic technologies developed by her research group to CHROMiX to help the company augment their Web-based color management profiling service. The UW technologies have been shown to deliver 50 percent fewer errors over the best commercially available personal computer-based software solutions. The commercialized technology could enable CHROMiX to provide less expensive, yet more accurate, color profiling to thousands of customers worldwide.
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“We are very excited to have been awarded a WTC grant, and to be working closely with the UW’s exceptional Electrical Engineering Department. We have been conducting parallel research projects for quite some time, and look forward to seeing what happens when we put our heads together.”
CHROMiX President Steve Upton
"This is a great opportunity to apply state-of-the-art estimation algorithms to the very practical problem of producing consistent color across devices."
UW Assistant Professor Maya Gupta
"This is great news, another illustration of Washington investing in R&D to create new technologies, new products, new markets, and new jobs."
State Rep. Jim McIntire (D-Seattle)
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