FIRST QUALITY PROFILING SERVICE
CUSTOM ICC PROFILES FOR YOUR PRINTER
Custom ICC profiles for your printer
Custom ICC profiles will give to your printer brilliant accurate colors on any paper, good soft proofs ( very good control of out of gamut colors ). Each printer is physically different, the generic ICC profiles provided with your printer are made for one printer but not your printer ! Your prints don't match your screen ? You can't have good black and white prints ? You want to print on third party papers with good results ? The good way to solve this is to use custom ICC profiles made for your ink/printer/papier combination.
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Michael Reichmann from Luminous Landscape tried my profiles ( color and black and white ), here's what he says:
" Good profiles are a virtual necessity for high quality inkjet printing. It costs
a lot of money and some effort to purchase the equipment to make these yourself,
and most people don't bother. But the profiles that come with most printers or
papers are rarely first rate. The alternative then is to have someone with the
proper gear and skills make a custom profile for your printer, your inks, and
your preferred paper.
There are a number of people on the net who provide such
service, but one that I recently had the opportunity to try myself was christophe
métairie photographie, and I was very impressed with the results.
Recommended. Michael Reichmann."
Superposition
of correction
curves for same model but different printer
same paper/driver config
Each
printer needs different correction curves, generic profiles can't do this !
The process to make your custom ICC profiles is easy: print the targets with a specific driver configuration. Send them to me, I'll read the targets with a xrite i1 pro 2 and iO automated table.
Black and white profiles, from COLD2 to WARM2
The ICC printer profiles
When you order your profiles, you can choose different profiles packs:
- PREMIUM Profiles / color + BW : Made with the 6592 color patches targets ( 8 A4 pages to print ), you'll receive 7 profiles: 2 color profiles: ( standard shadows, V-1 with light shadows ) and 5 Black and White profiles: one
neutral, two cold and two warm profiles, specialy made for black and white prints. PRICE 59.95 €
- EXPERT Profiles / color only : Made with the 2418 color patches targets ( 3 A4 pages to print ), you'll receive profiles:
V-2 standard shadows, V-1 with light shadows. PRICE 39.95 €
- EXPERT Profiles / color + BW : Made with the 2418 color patches targets ( 3 A4 pages to print ), you'll receive 7 profiles: 2 color
profiles ( V-2: standard shadows and V-1 with light shadows ) and 5 Black and White profiles: one neutral, two cold and two warm profiles, specialy made for black and white prints. PRICE 49.95 €
To download the ZIP files containing the targets, clic on the thumbnails |
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EXPERT TARGETS - 3 x A4 format prints |
PREMIUM TARGETS - 8 x A4 format prints |
To
Print the targets:
To print the target properly without any color management, the only safe way is to use a little software from adobe called " adobe color printer utility " , you can download a mac or PC version:
Just open the targets files in adobe color printer utility, clic on print set up to configure your paper size, then clic on print to access to your driver. Don't forget to configure your printer driver for each page to bypass the color management, choose the right media type and resolution in the driver. Save your printer driver configuration for this paper to be sure you'll print with the same driver configuration when you'll print with your profiles on this paper. To be sure there is no nozzle clog on your targets
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After printing the targets, let it dry for at least 12 hours before packaging to send, do not write on the back or cut the sheet, I need the white area around the patches. Look very carefully at your prints, they have to be perfect to make good profiles: no nozzle clogs, no scraches on the prints !
Send the prints
to :
Christophe Metairie
81, avenue Francis Plante
40100
DAX
FRANCE
ORDERS
When I receive your targets, I need two days to make your profiles, I will send you your ICC printer profiles with wetransfer.com.
printer calibration service PREMIUM targets - 6592 patches |
EXPERT PACK - COLOR + BW |
54.95 € |
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PREMIUM PACK - COLOR + BW |
69.95 € |
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