Welcome

ColourProfiles.com is devoted to helping discerning photographers get the best quality colour output from their digital darkrooms.

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One of the most annoying problems facing photographers moving to digital printing is the difficulty of getting the colours of their inkjet prints to match the colours shown on their computer monitor. The process needed to achieve this is called colour management, or Colour Management System(CMS).
Although some web sites on colour management manage to make it sound very difficult and complex, using colour management is actually very simple. Please use the links on the left to learn more.

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Experienced digital photographers will already know of colour management and appreciate the need for accurate colour profiles to ensure precision output. We supply high quality, custom made printer profiles - at an affordable cost - to enable photographers to reliably deliver matched colour output from their printers with their preferred choice of paper and ink.

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We can not only profile any desktop inkjet printer from Epson, Canon or HP, but also the wide carriage printers like the Epson 7800 and 9800. Plus we can also profile colour laser printers, dye-subs, printers using sublimation inks and unusual materials like canvas or transparent sheet materials.
Our printer profiles are suitable for both Windows and Apple Mac systems. Throughout the site we have used screenshots from Windows based software, but most aspects of colour management are similar on both operating systems.
Please use our glossary page to explain any terms you may be unfamiliar with.
Being an English business we use the English spelling of the word colour, except when referring to menu options in software when spelt the American way.


 
News; August 2010
  • Service Interruption

    We're off shooting on location from 2nd September to the 11th September, so we're sorry our usual 24hr turn around time won't be available that week.
    Targets arriving during this week will have the custom profiles created and mailed out on 12th September.
    Sorry for any inconvenience.
     
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5
    Adobe have just released their latest version of Photoshop CS5. This new version has removed the 'no colour management option when printing which we normally ask our customers to use when printing their profiling targets. To work round this issue Adobe have a technical note with a work round here, we'd suggest people use this until Adobe's final solution to printing un-tagged profiling targets is released. Then we'll update our instructions to cater for the promised new solution from Adobe.
     
  • Mac (Snow) Leopard issues
    Upgrades to the latest Mac operating system have caused a few problems for some customers when printing profiling targets with Adobe Photoshop CS4(please see our note above with respect to CS5). Particularly effected are Epson and some Canon printers. Using CS3 is no problem, but please contact us if you don't have CS3 available as we have a document detailing an effective work round for this issue we can send you. info at ColourProfile.com
     
  • Fourth profile free

    If you order three profiles from us, you'll get a fourth profile completely free of charge. You don't need to order all four at the same time, try us for one and then order the other three when you find out how great our profiles are.
    This brings the effective price per profile down to just £12.75 or £11.09 plus VAT.
     
  • Black and white profiles

    Our standard custom profiles usually significantly improve monochrome performance from colour inkjet printers, but a few people choose to use monochrome inksets and can't print out one of our coloured targets. If you'd like to have an ICC profile made for a monochrome inkset we're now able to offer this service. Please contact us for full details and we'll send out the special monochrome targets needed.