Testimonials

"I have never had the results that I achieved with the printer/profile combination with any other printed medium such was the quality obtained" Nick

"John has proved to be the most tenacious problem solver. His knowledge and technical know-how are really impressive but beyond this, he is incredibly helpful and professional."

Prices

Our Prices are competitive and supported by a money back Guarantee.

1-2 Profiles      £13.50 each
3-4 Profiles      £12.10 each
5+  Profiles      £11.50 each

Ace Printer Profiling

Create icc profiles with our colour profiling service. Our high quality printer profiles are very competitively priced with a money-back guarantee. The free and friendly, talk-you-through phone service supports users, who are new to computing, to install perfect icc profiles.

Furthermore, you can judge for yourself the quality of your custom printer profile using our free test image. This image tests your printer profile to ensure a gold standard performance.

Use this image to evaluate your icc printer profile at home

Printer Profiling Process

There are three simple steps to making a printer colour profile.

  1. You receive two image files of colour patches by email. You print these using PhotoShop (or other colour aware application) using your printer with the specific paper/ink combination.
  2. When dry, you send the prints to us for processing and preparation of custom icc profile.
  3. We send the icc printer profile to you by email. You install this file into your computer operating system Windows or Macintosh.

The icc colour profile works between PhotoShop and the printer so that it faithfully reproduces the PhotoShop image. That is what the colour profile does.

Evaluate your profile by printing the image (left) supplied free

 

Colour CalibrationColour calibration service

Colour Calibration

 

When you buy a computer and a new printer you could be forgiven for thinking that your prints are as good as they can be. That is far from the truth, because the manufacturers set them up for ‘simple mode’ operation, where each unit works in isolation of the other. A simple analogy is that the the computer sends a signal to the printer, but it has no idea what the printer is doing with that signal, and therefore the colours it prints. 

Colour Profiling gets these units talk to each other. That way the computer knows what the printer is doing, so can send the messages that cause the printer give the correct colour and tone.

 

All this may sound complicated but the kind people at the International Colour Consortium (ICC) have devised a standard system called Printer Profiling, that makes the printer give the colour you expect. We at specialize in making the Profiles that work in the background of your computer and control the colour from computer to printer.

 

“I profiled my monitor but my prints are no better - sometimes worse”. This is a common complaint. Apart from the person looking at the monitor and print, there is not connection between them. Both the printer and the monitor must be separately profiled and balanced in their performance. Please see the information on the Quality Tab.

Why choose Ace Printer ProfilesWhy Choose Ace Printer Profiles?

We offer a personal service and helpful service and free technical advice at any time.

  • Highest quality custom icc profiles for inkjet Printers
  • Excellent support before, during and after purchase
  • Simple, 4 step process to better printing
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Very competitive price
  • Free Phone Support

Order your ICC Printer profile now and start printing better pictures

Benefits of Profiling ServicesBenefits of a Profiling Service

The benefits of printer profiling can be placed in three areas, better colour, good economics and flexibility.

Better Colour. because colours are 'clean and bright'. Colours are more saturated and truer to the camera capture. Colour castes are eliminated. We supply to our customers a test and evaluation image for you to judge the beautiful colours and neutral greys for yourself.

Better Economics. With a balanced profiled system you will be able to get a good image first time. This cuts waste and saves time and frustration. If you waste an A4 sheet of quality paper you typically loose £0.50. This does not include the ink cost which is significant.

Ink costs are very worrying which causes many photographers to use alternative cartridge suppliers or Continuous Flow Systems (CIS). These are an excellent alternative, many give equal performance to the OEM ink. Printer profiling will ensure excellent results with these inks.

Flexibility. The paper type, surface finish and base colour are at the heart of presenting an image sympathetically and best advantage. Bright glossy paper is often too brash for some images (such as a misty morning for instance). There are economic benefits too by using alternative papers. Some people offer the view that the manufacturer's paper must be best. This is not the case, as many papers from companies like Permajet, Hahnemuehle etc produce extremely fine papers. These can improve your work over the printer maker's offerings. When you profile these papers you will get consistent colour. So if you reprint an image on a different paper you get the same colours. There are some very good economy papers available too, which give excellent image quality.

 

All this is available to you when you use a Printer Profile and our money-back satisfaction guarantee.

 

All versions of photoshop since PS6 are “colour Aware”, meaning that they are able to properly colour manage images (not all graphic applications can do this). Photoshop is also equipped to properly hand-over the image colour data on to the next application (such as a printer) in such a manner, that enables the photographer to control the colour through to final print. All versions of Photoshop up to and including CS4, gave three options to control this hand-over process. These are:

  1. Photoshop Manages the Colour. 
  2. Printer Manages the Colour.
  3. No Colour Management.

 

Of these, number 3 was used when printing colour targets, for the specific purpose of profiling a printer. Although used infrequently, this was a very valued setting option.

 

Photoshop version CS5 does not include option 3 for No Colour Management so is not suitable for printing the profiling targets. To overcome this deficiency Adobe have released a very small separate application called the Adobe Color Printer Utility available at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83497.html . Simply download this utility and install it on your computer. CS5 users will then have an alternative method to print colour targets.

 

Mac users please note that the Apple/Mac version of the printer utility (ACPU.dmg) is only suitable for Snow Leopard OSX 10.6, so it cannot be used on earlier OSX versions. Please contact us if you are using CS5 and Mac OSX 10.5 or earlier, please refer to our Apple/Mac developments tab on the home page or contact info@aceprinterprofiling.co.uk so that we can advise how to proceed.

 

Apple/Mac Developments

 

Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 is the first ‘stand-alone’ OSX version written specifically for the Intel processor. Earlier versions, up to OSX 10.4 and 10.5 were written for both the IBM and Intel processors. Application software written for OSX 10.6 cannot necessarily be installed on Macs running the earlier platform versions (the reverse also applies). For this reason the Adobe colour Printer Utility can only be installed on computers running OSX 10.6.

Please contact us if you are using CS5 and Mac OSX 10.5 or earlier, at info@aceprinterprofiling.co.uk so that we can advise how to proceed.


 

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