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Achieving perfect color by profiling and calibrating

What are Profiles and What is Calibrating?

Profiles are files that describe the characteristics of a particular ink and media combination. When an image is printed on a material, the ink takes on the characteristics of that material giving it its own unique brightness, color cast, and contrast.
To get consistent color while using different ink and material combinations, a few steps can be taken. The first is to apply the correct profile to the media. Unless your software contains the profile of the specific media and ink combination, you will get less than perfect color. Our materials have been profiled for many ink combinations. The profiles are available to our customers.

Calibration
Your monitor and scanner as well as your printer/ink/media combination have profiles. When all of the profiles have been applied and are used correctly in your software, your system is calibrated!

What are the benefits of a calibrated system:
A calibrated system gives you tremendous control over correcting color. You save money by saving time, ink and media because what you see on the display is what will print on your printer. No more test print waste!!!

We can provide the tools, the training, or the service.
We offer on-site profiling and calibration training and service. We also offer scanner and Photoshop training which can include color correction.
We also sell the hardware and software components needed to insure your system is calibrated.

The photos above show Nick and Patrick examining the "Ink Limit" swatch, and then feeding them through the strip reader to measure the colors, which will be processed into a profile.

Large format "profiled" media
X-Rite DTP41 strip reader for media profiles

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