Scitex Continuous Tone or Scitex CT is an
image file format. It is designed specifically for use on
Scitex graphics processing equipment.
Its use is supported by numerous
graphics suites and
desktop publishing packages, such as
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Microsoft Windows, Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas Knoll, Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the indu ...
,
Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application produced by Adobe Inc. and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, ...
, and
QuarkXPress.
Properties
The Scitex CT format enables high-quality images to be processed on Scitex computers. Supports CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow Key), RGB and grayscale images, but does not support alpha channels.
CMYK images are very large in size.
They consist of:
*a control block,
*a parameter block,
*the image data.
Scitex CT images typically represent 4 colors.
A colored pixel is up to 128 bits in size (16 separations). Separations 1 through 4 are for CMYK colors. Separations from 5 to 16 are reserved in case the format of these images is expanded in the future.
The data in the first separation is followed by the data in the second separation and so with the rest
Utilities
This type of image format is often used in jobs that require color. For example in magazine ads, newspapers …
References
External links
Technical information from AccuSoft ImageGear documentation
Graphics file formats
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