ISO/IEC 10918-6:2013

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 10918-6
First edition
2013-04-15

Information technology — Digital
compression and coding of continuous-
tone still images: Application to printing
systems
Technologies de l'information — Compression numérique et codage
des images fixes à modelé continu: Application aux systèmes
d'impression




Reference number
ISO/IEC 10918-6:2013(E)
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ISO/IEC 10918-6:2013(E)
Foreword
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ISO/IEC 10918-6 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 29, Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information, in collaboration with
ITU-T. The identical text is published as Rec. ITU-T T.872 (06/2012).
ISO/IEC 10918 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology -- Digital
compression and coding of continuous-tone still images:
 Part 1: Requirements and guidelines
 Part 2: Compliance testing
 Part 3: Extensions
 Part 4: Registration of JPEG profiles, SPIFF profiles, SPIFF tags, SPIFF colour spaces, APPn markers,
SPIFF compression types and Registration Authorities (REGAUT)
 Part 5: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
 Part 6: Application to printing systems


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CONTENTS
Page
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Definitions . 1
4 Abbreviations . 2
5 Conformance . 2
6 JPEG print-application support overview . 2
6.1 Colour encodings and associated values to define white and black . 2
6.2 Characterization of colour or grayscale values . 3
6.3 Order of components for images encoded with three or four components . 3
6.4 Start of Frame (SOF) markers .
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