Committee for Graphic Arts Technology Standards

CGATS was formed in 1987 and received ANSI accreditation in 1989. The goal of CGATS is to have the entire scope of technical work for printing, publishing and converting technologies represented in one national standardization and coordination effort, while respecting the established activities of existing accredited standards committees and industry standards developers.

CGATS has defined a standard file format for storing measurement data. CGATS files are tab-delimited text files capturing each measured patch in a tabular format along with a header of metadata pertinent to the measurement condition.