AFP Consortium publishes new version of the Color Management Object Content Architecture (CMOCA) Reference

​BOULDER, Colo., May 29, 2025 – The Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Consortium, an international consortium of print and presentation industry stakeholders working together to further enhance the AFP document architecture, is pleased to announce the availability of the third edition of the Color Management Object Content Architecture (CMOCA) Reference, document number AFPC-0006-02. The new reference includes the addition of known, device-independent process colorant names, in addition to a number of clarifications.
 
First published in 2006, the CMOCA architecture defines objects for carrying color management information in AFP. This enables consistent colors to be presented and printed across many different devices. The objects can contain industry-standard ICC profiles but also support other color management functionality specific to AFP.
 
New in the third edition of the CMOCA Reference is the addition of the ability to name process colorants in a way that is device independent and can be understood by all devices, through the definition of AFPC-defined process colorant names. These new names are also of use in both the IPDS and IOCA architectures, although the official definition of the names is owned by CMOCA. Various clarifications have also been added to the new edition to respond to questions asked by implementors. 
 
For details, please refer to the new reference on the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/publications.html
 
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been used to produce mission critical documents such as bills, statements and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self-contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
 
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of over 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the AFP Consortium has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and future applications such as accessibility features, as well as many other functionalities. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
 
For more information, visit the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org.