colour profiling

We are pleased to be able to offer a colour profiling service for those who'd like to improve the colour accuracy of their photographic prints.

Working with profiles is known as 'colour management', and is the biggest hurdle to overcome when changing to a computerised system of photographic printing.

In digital imaging systems, colour management is the controlled conversion between the colours of various colour devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.

The primary goal of colour management is to obtain a good match across colour devices; for example, a video which should appear the same color on a computer LCD monitor, a plasma TV screen, and on a printed frame of video. Colour management helps to achieve the same appearance on all of these devices, provided the devices are capable of delivering the needed colour intensities.

You want to ensure that prints come out in a predictable and repeatable way. You start with the screen/monitor calibration so that you see the images properly. After that, printer calibration and profile creation will ensure that your output matches what you see on the screen.