Profiles are used for color predictability and consistency. If you have ever viewed or edited your pictures from home and had them printed and thought, these looked really different on my monitor, we encourage you to start using our profiles. By doing this, you will get a good idea on how your prints will turn out later. Profiles are good for soft proofing and editing your images. You can load one of our profiles and edit your images until you are happy with them and you should have prints that look very close to what you saw from your computer when you edited them. Download our profiles now so you can see what we see.
Note: You need to have a program such as Adobe Photoshop that can preview images using custom profiles. Also, please tell us NOT to correct your images in any way if you are using our profiles as the final prints would be different from what you saw from your computer since we normally correct images by default.
Calibrate Your Monitor
Calibrating your monitor is very important if you want to do serious photo correction on your computer by helping your monitor display colors more accurately. Before you start using our profiles, we strongly recommend you calibrate your monitor. We recommend that you use a monitor calibration tool that consists of using both the hardware and software in conjunction with eachother to do the calibration. These products can cost anywhere between $80-$300. Ideally, you should calibrate your monitor once a week. Realistically, once a month may be fine.
Download Profiles
Which profiles to download will depend on which paper/s you want your images printed on. For example, if you want your images printed using the Noritsu on Glossy paper, you would download the Noritsu Glossy Paper Profile.
Note: Prints larger than 12x18 go to the Epson Pro so be sure you don't download the Noritsu Profiles in that case.
→ Download Profile for Fuji Crystal Archive 2 Glossy Paper. [Noritsu QSS-3212]
Note: Up to 12" wide.
→ Download Profile for Fuji Pro Crystal Archive Lustre Paper. [Noritsu QSS-3212]
Note: Up to 12" wide.
→ Download Profile for Kodak Pro Papers. [Epson Pro 9600]
Note: Up to 24" wide.
→ Download Profile for Ilford Galerie Papers. [Epson Pro 9600]
Note: Up to 44" wide.
→ Download Profile for Epson Canvas. [Epson Pro 9600]
Note: Up to 44" wide.
→ Download Profile for Epson Somerset Velvet. [Epson Pro 9600]
Note: Up to 44" wide.
Please contact us If you are not sure which profiles to download.
*We will update our print profiles as necessary.
Move Profiles to the Right Location
After download, unzip and move profiles to the right location.
MAC OSX the path is – /Library/ColorSync/Profiles
Windows XP the path is – C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color
Windows 2000 the path is – C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\color
Windows 98 SP2 the path is – C:\Windows\system\color
sRGB Color Space
Before using profiles, it may be helpful to know that we use the sRGB color space so it's a good idea to set it to that display profile if it's not already. sRGB is usually the default. Under Photoshop CS2, you can check under Edit > Color Settings. Under "Working Spaces" in the "RGB" field, it should be set to "sRGB IEC61966-2.1"
Note: If you are printing using the Epson Pro, you have the option to have it printed using the Adobe RGB color space, but let us know you want that. If you use Adobe RGB, then you would not use our profiles.
View and Edit an Image with our Profiles
*We were using Photoshop CS2 for this. It may be different depending on which version of Photoshop or which software you use. If you are using something other than Photoshop, you may have to check your software's documentation or contact them about proofing images with custom profiles.
1. Open an image in Photoshop.
2. In the top Tool Bar, go to View > Proof Setup > Custom...
3. In the drop down menu for "Device to Simlulate", select the printing profile you want to use that you had placed into the folder previously (All our profiles start with "EJ"). For the "Rendering Intent" selection, it depends on which profile you selected.
For the Fuji Glossy and Lustre Papers [Noritsu Profiles], select "Relative Colorimetric" and keep "Black Point Compensation" unchecked.
For the Ilford Profile, select "Relative Colorimetric" and keep "Black Point Compensation" checked.
For the Kodak Profile, select "Perceptual" and uncheck "Black Point Compensation"
The "Simulate Paper Color" and "Simulate Black Ink" should both be unchecked for all profiles.Tip: Before hitting "OK", there's a "Save..." button to the right. Click that and name it something (like the name of our profile). Save that. Now, under "Custom Proof Condition", select the one you had just named and all those settings will have been saved automatically. This is very convienient and means you won't have to remember which options you need need to select when choosing which profiles you want to use. Do the steps above for each profile you use. Next time, you just select the profile under "Custom Proof Condition" and all the options like "Relative Colorimetric" and "Black Point Comensation" will automatically update. If you set the wrong settings for a profile, you can overwrite the wrong one with the new by first making sure all settings are correct for that profile, then naming it the same file name.
All other settings should be default and click "OK"
What you should have seen when you selected a different profile was the image changing in color. It can be a subtle or large difference depending on your monitor, image and profile you select.
4. You are now looking at an image that would look very close to its printed form. What you can do now is edit your image to be exactly the way you want it to be when it gets printed. After you are happy with the results, save the image
Tip: You can create custom actions if you want to open multiple images with a specific profile or would like to integrate this process into your workflow seamlessly.
You're done! After you do this a few times, this will become easier if you found this difficult. Now you will have prints close to the way you viewed or edited them from your computer. As long as you followed the directions above, this should work well for you.
Remember, if you end up using these, tell us NOT to correct your images because that's what we normally do.