Native Digital Remote Printer ICC Profiling Service

Press Release:

A single ICC profile for a desktop inkjet printer/ink/media combination now costs just £15.00 plus VAT, instead of £25.00 plus VAT. If you buy two profiles then the costs comes down to £11.25 plus VAT each and if you buy three the cost is just £9.75 each plus VAT.

Technical Director Rob Griffith, a colour management expert with over ten years experience said, “Using a Remote Profiling Service is the easiest and most cost effective method for photographers to get high quality profiles of their own printer, ink and media combination. They are no longer tied to only using the printer manufacturer’s own ink and paper to get acceptable results. They get a colour accurate print first time, every time, which saves them ink, paper and most importantly time, and we provide full phone and email support for the service so they get the benefit of our experience.”

The service can be used on any driver driven desktop inkjet or dye-sub printer, but Native Digital do recommend that users have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to reliably implement the profiles.

Users download a PDF of detailed instructions covering Epson, Canon and HP printers, and also three TIFF files of colour patches. They then post the printed colour patches to Native Digital who use advanced measuring instruments and software to generate the profile and then it is emailed back to the customer. The instructions also cover installation and use of the profile.

A professionally made custom ICC profile for a user’s own printer/ink/media combination has many advantages over either downloadable profiles from media or printer manufacturers’ websites, or profiles made by the cheaper profiling solutions available. Firstly, users are sure that their own combination of ink and media they are using is being measured. Secondly, they have access to the broad experience of someone who is profiling day in day out. Thirdly, free downloadable profiles from manufacturer’s websites may do a reasonable job but a custom profile will almost always be more accurate. The most common combination profiled by the service is Epson printers using Epson inks and Epson media, a combination you would expect to produce good results but given the demand for custom profiles obviously occasionally fails to. Lastly, only professional level profiling tools are used and so the inaccuracy of some of the cheaper profiling solutions is avoided.