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Using Color Settings in Flexi - Matching Your Monitor to Your Print!

Color Printing

Color printing is perhaps the most misunderstood subject for all sign makers.  At a recent World Expo for Sign-A-Rama I presented information to help correct this problem.  Below you can down load the presentation and the associated files that are used for color correction.

Download: 10 Steps to Better Image Editing & Printing with FlexiSIGN

Download Why What You See Is NOT What You Get.pdf  This is a paper by Mark Rugen

Download Why Color Management.pdf  A good explanation as to why color management is needed

Download a Calibration Image 1

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Link to a great Color theory Site for more study From Adobe, who better?

Download a GREAT Pantone Color Chart.  Zipped ( about 3Mb, unzip to eps format)

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Here's some tools I've found that are very useful and FREE!

IMGSCALE.ZIP    This is a handy tool for resizing your images from small to very large and its quite effective. Takes a little playing around to figure out.

Download a nice FREE program for adjusting monitor brightness/contrast.

Monitor Calibration Wizard   A Must for good color!

Scan Calculator - Figure out how much resolution to use for an image at any viewing distance.

ICC Profiles for Scanner. Monitors, Printers

For those who don't have the time or expertise to make custom profiles, try these links.

Jetsoft's Color Profile Center  A collection of various profiles.  You'll have to search.

Iphoto ICC Profile Center       A small collection of scanner profiles.

Digital Camera ICC Profiles Popular camera profiles

Generic_LCD A monitor profile for Laptops or LCD monitors.

Generic_CRT A monitor profile for CRT monitors.

About ICC-Color Management


About ICC-profiles
ICC-profiles on ICCView
Color management Links
Where to download ICC-profiles?


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ICC-profiles on ICCView
The following profiles are the standard profiles on ICCView which you find in the profile list on the left.
Some profiles can be downloaded as ZIP (PC) or HQX (MAC).

AdobeRGB1998.icc Adobe standard RGB-colorspace ZIP HQX
AppleRGB.icc Apple standard RGB-colorspace ZIP HQX
CanonCLC700.icm Color-laserprinter Canon CLC 700  
ECI-RGBv10.icc RGB-colorspace from European Color Initiative (ECI) ZIP HQX
Epson2100_Premium_Semigloss_PK.icm Epson Stylus Photo 2100 printed on Epson Premium Semigloss Paper with PhotoBlack Ink  
Epson7600_Best_Proof_Paper9180.icc Epson Stylus Photo 7600 UltraChrome Ink printed on Best Remoteproof Paper 9180 Semimatt  
EuroscaleCoated.icc Offsetprint Euroscale on coated paper ZIP HQX
FF_Frontier_Print_sRGB.icc Fuji Frontier - Digital RGB-printer on silver halide photopaper  
ISOcoated.icc Commercial and specialty offset, paper type 1 and 2, gloss or matt coated paper - ECI  
ISOnewspaper26v4.icc Standard for the newspaper offset printing process ISO 12647-3:2004 (QUIZ) at Ifra  
ISOuncoated.icc Commercial and specialty offset, paper type 4, white, uncoated - ECI  
ISOuncoatedyellowish.icc Commercial and specialty offset, paper type 5, uncoated slightly yellowish - ECI  
ISOwebcoated.icc Commercial and specialty offset, paper type 3, low weight coated web offset - ECI  
LStar-RGB.icc RGB-colorspace from BasICColor  
Monitor_CRT.icm Standard consumer monitor  
PhotoGamutRGG_avg6c.icc RGB-colorspace of avarage photo devices - Photogamut.org  
Photoshop5_CMYK.icc Adobe Photoshop 5 Default CMYK colorprofile ZIP HQX
sRGB.icm RGB-colorspace from HP and Microsoft ZIP HQX
StdSWOP.icm Offsetprint SWOP-Standard (USA) ZIP HQX
TekPhaser450.icm Thermosublimation printer from Tektronix  
WideGamut.icm Extrem large RGB-colorspace ZIP HQX


color management links


www.littlecms.com  - Free monitor and scanner calibration software, Open Color Management Engine CMM

www.argyllcms.com  - Open source color management tool ArgyllCMS from Graeme W. Gill

www.oyranos.org/wiki/  - ColourWiki about OpenSource color management issues

www.computer-darkroom.com  - Tutorials about color management with Photoshop and inkjet printers on Mac and PC

www.targets.coloraid.de  - Cheap, but high quality IT8-targets for scanner calibration from Wolf Faust

www.digitaldog.net  - PDF-files about different themes of color management

www.boscarol.com  - Introduction to ICC-color management from Mauro Boscarol

www.coloraid.de  - Links to a lot of free color tools

www.colortracker.com  - Information about color management from Marco Cattarozzi (german)

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Where to download ICC-profiles?
www.eci.org  - European Color Initiative offers free ISO-standard ICC-profiles for offset and RGB-workspace ECI-RGB 1.0

www.ifra.com  - The "Qualitätsinitiative Zeitungsdruck" (Quiz) at Ifra offers ICC-profile for german standard newspaper

www.photogamut.org  - LUT-based RGB-colorworkspace (German)

www.pantone.com  - The color experts from Pantone offer a lot of ICC-colorprofiles under Support

www.littlecms.com/iphoto  - Selfcreated ICC-profiles for many lowprice-scanner from KWLee
 

About ICC-color management
The International Color Consortium ICC was founded in 1992. A standard for color profiles was published in 1993 by the ICC. Today the ICC-standard for color profiles is established in most color management systems.

ICC-profiles are used in color management systems to get an accurate color reproduction on different output devices. ICC-profiles are OS independent and can be used on Windows based computers, on Macs and on Unix machines. ColorSync is doing the color management in the Mac OS. On Windows based PCs ICM 2.0 is available in Windows 98/2000/XP. Today most popular DTP and image editing applications have an implemented support for color management with ICC-profiles.

The following illustration shows how ICC-color management controls the color reproduction from input to output device:



An ICC-color management system consists of color profiles and color engine (CMM). The color engine is doing the color transformation.

Inside of a color profile you find a matrix or table (LookUpTable, LUT) which are used for for calculation from device color space to the device independent color space (PCS). The device color space is RGB for scanner and display and CMYK for printer. ICC-profiles have the extension *.icc or *.icm.

The color engine (CMM) is doing the calculation during a color transformation from device color space to the profile connection space (PCS) or vice versa by using the ICC-profiles. All calculations or automatically done by the color engine.

The device independent color space is called profile-connection-space (PCS). The ICC-standard allows two profile-connection-spaces: CIE-XYZ and CIELab. Both color spaces can be converted lossless. For matrix-based-profiles a transformation to CIE-XYZ is used. ICC-profiles which include a look-up-table (LUT) for the color transformation convert to CIELab.

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About ICC-profiles
In ICC-profiles there exist two kinds of calculation methods:

- Matrix-based-profiles with 3x3-matrix and Tone Reproduction Curve (TRC)
- LUT-based-profiles with multidimensional Look-Up-Table (CLUT), Input- and Output-Curves

Matrix-based-profiles are only used for RGB-devices as display, scanner and workspace. They are quite small (20-100 kByte) in comparison to LUT-based-profiles, because only some values have to be stored in the profile.

3x3 Color Matrix

LUT-based-profiles are used for all output devices which work in CMYK-system. Some RGB-devices like scanners, digital cameras or digital RGB-printer also use LUT-based-profiles. Because of the multidimensional look-up-tables inside of the profiles the size of LUT-based profiles is between 400 kByte and 2 MByte.

Color Look Up Table

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