| Filename extension | .fp, .ct, .lw, .hc, .mp, .bp, .bl, .sd |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | not defined |
| Developed by | ANSI, ISO |
| Initial release | 1993 (1993) |
| Latest release | TIFF/IT / 2004; 8 years ago (2004) |
| Type of format | Image file format |
| Extended from | TIFF 6.0 |
| Standard(s) | ISO 12639 |
TIFF/IT is a file format structured to digitally send data for print ready pages that have been created on high-end prepress systems. The TIFF/IT specification (ISO 12639) describes a multiple-file format which can describe a single page per file set. TIFF/IT files are different from common TIFF files and they are not interchangeable.
The goals in developing TIFF/IT were to carry forward the original IT8 magnetic tape formats into a media independent version. TIFF/IT is based on Adobe TIFF 6.0 specification and both extends TIFF 6 by adding additional tags and restricts it by limiting some tags and the values within tags. Not all valid TIFF/IT images are valid TIFF 6.0 images.
TIFF/IT defines image file formats for encoding colour continuous tone picture images, colour line art images, high resolution continuous tone images, monochrome continuous tone images, binary picture images, binary line art images, screened data, and images of composite final pages.
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