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Custom ICC Profiling

Booksmart Studio is among the leaders in providing custom ICC profiles and canned (generic) profiles for fine art papers available to artists & photographers. Through an agreement with X-Rite we are able to provide these ICC profiles with a subscription plan or free to our customers as a starting point for your digital workflow. Those who are serious about digital printmaking understand the value of a true color managed digital workflow. That being said, they should also understand the importance of creating custom ICC profiles. Booksmart Studio can help in one of three ways; first by providing you with equipment from X-Rite, second by educating you on creating your color managed workflow through either workshops or consulting, and finally by allowing Booksmart Studio to create your custom ICC profiles for you. Whatever you determine our role can be in your digital printing success, we are ready to support your needs. Booksmart Studio currently creates the generic ICC profiles for these leading paper manufacturers, these are the profiles you download from their websites: Bergger, BF Inkjet Media, Canson Infinity, Innova, Magiclée Intelicoat, & Museo Fine Art papers.

ICC profiles are an essential part of any digital workflow and we are here to assist you as one of the industry leaders for supplying fine art paper ICC profiles.

We take great pride in our custom ICC Profile service which is why we have been chosen by several paper manufacturers to provide them with canned profiles. Being among the industry leaders in providing generic ICC Profiles to the end user, it is extremely important to emphasize that these are merely a starting point. For a true and complete digital workflow, one will need custom ICC Profiles to ensure the accuracy of their printer, ink, & substrate combination. Not to mention that each digital and printing workflow that is employed will tend to contain its own little quirks or personalities. At Booksmart Studio we understand this and work with you to tailor the system to your specific needs, instead of trying to change the way you work.

RGB Targets

The RGB large target requires (2) 8.5" X 11" prints to be completed by the customer on their printer, it has 1728 color patches. The RGB large targets provides a more accurate printer ICC profile than the RGB small targets which utilize only (1) 8.5" x 11" and 729 patches.

There are 1728 patches used in this RGB large profiling service you are purchasing. A Gretag Spectrolino/Spectroscan is used for reading in the measurements along and Monaco Profiler is the software that is used to create the profiles. We have tested Gretag Profiler and Monaco Profiler and find that we get better results with the Monaco Profiler.

If you wish to have your profiles created with Gretag Profilemaker we have the ability to utilize that software as well. There is not extra fee, but you must state on your order form that you wish to have us utilize that software adn we will email you a different set of targets.

Users should make RGB profiles if you are submitting RGB files to your printer, i.e. printing through the Canon, Epson, & HP print drivers.

Once we receive your targets our normal turn-around time is 72 hours. Please e-mail us at profiles@booksmartstudio.com with any questions.

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