What custom profiles do for you:
Give the best color match between what you see on your calibrated monitor and the printed page.
Fewer wasted test prints means better prints in less time and for less money.
Allow you to use the full range of colors your particular printer can produce. Generic profiles are usually
designed to be safe, and restrict the available color range. Our custom profiles measure the limits of our
printer's performance, allowing you to print with as vibrant, saturated colors as our printer can.
Note for individual photographers: Before using our custom printer profiles from us or any other company,
we strongly recommend calibrating your monitor with a hardware calibration system. The goal of printer
profiles is to match your monitor to what the prints will look like. If your monitor is not well-calibrated, printer
profiles will not help. For a review of several calibration options, we recommend colorvision. Good sources
for monitor calibration hardware include Chromix and Colormall.
RA-4 printers: Fuji Frontier - These printers also have good self calibration routines. A new profile is
usually only required after major maintenance or when the machine settings are changed. Minor drift in the
printers or aging of densitometer lamps can be compensated for by re-profiling on an annual or semi-
annual basis.
If you use an image editing program other than Photoshop, make sure it supports converting image files to
a printer profile. The basic flow is, however, approximately the same.
Important note #1: All profiles assume an accurately calibrated and profiled monitor. The goal of printer
profiles is to match your prints to your monitor. If the condition of your monitor is not known accurately, there
is nothing to match the prints to. The viewing condition for the prints is also critical. Unless otherwise
noted, our profiles are built for print viewing under industry standard D50 (~5000°K) illumination.
Important note #2: Our digital lab profiles are created specifically for each individual printer. These are not
generic profiles, nor should they be treated as such. Each printer and paper combination behaves
differently. Using highly optimized profiles on a printer other than the one they were made for can result in
worse performance than using no profile at all.
You can download our custom ICC profiles for our Frontier here. After downloading the profile, you need to
save it in a location that depends on what operating system you are using. The profiles are not
compressed, as the files can't be squeezed down significantly. The profile files work equally well on
Windows or Mac computers. Note that the profiles are binary files – they do not contain readily readable
information. Image editing applications such as Photoshop and color printer drivers are equipped to use
them. When you drop off your order tell us not to color correct it - print it straight "as is". ICC profiles are for
professionals or people that know what they are doing.
Computer ICC locations are:
Mac OS X: Storing profiles in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles allows all users to use them. An alternative area,
for users without Admin privileges, is /Users//Library/ColorSync/Profiles — any profiles stored here are
available only to the current user.
Mac OS 9.x: System Folder:ColorSync Profiles
Mac OS 9.x users who have difficulty loading profiles in Photoshop, please read this note.
Windows XP: \Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color
The easiest way to install a profile in Windows XP is to right click on the profile and select "install profile".
Windows copies the profile to the correct directory automatically.
Windows NT/2000: \Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
See above note for installing profiles in Windows XP - the same technique works in Windows 2000.
Windows 98/ME: \Windows\System\Color
All this information on ICC profiles was taken from www.drycreekphoto.com. For more information go check
them out. They have more information on how to calibrate your monitor and how to use printer profiles. The
also did test on different types of papers.
Give the best color match between what you see on your calibrated monitor and the printed page.
Fewer wasted test prints means better prints in less time and for less money.
Allow you to use the full range of colors your particular printer can produce. Generic profiles are usually
designed to be safe, and restrict the available color range. Our custom profiles measure the limits of our
printer's performance, allowing you to print with as vibrant, saturated colors as our printer can.
Note for individual photographers: Before using our custom printer profiles from us or any other company,
we strongly recommend calibrating your monitor with a hardware calibration system. The goal of printer
profiles is to match your monitor to what the prints will look like. If your monitor is not well-calibrated, printer
profiles will not help. For a review of several calibration options, we recommend colorvision. Good sources
for monitor calibration hardware include Chromix and Colormall.
RA-4 printers: Fuji Frontier - These printers also have good self calibration routines. A new profile is
usually only required after major maintenance or when the machine settings are changed. Minor drift in the
printers or aging of densitometer lamps can be compensated for by re-profiling on an annual or semi-
annual basis.
If you use an image editing program other than Photoshop, make sure it supports converting image files to
a printer profile. The basic flow is, however, approximately the same.
Important note #1: All profiles assume an accurately calibrated and profiled monitor. The goal of printer
profiles is to match your prints to your monitor. If the condition of your monitor is not known accurately, there
is nothing to match the prints to. The viewing condition for the prints is also critical. Unless otherwise
noted, our profiles are built for print viewing under industry standard D50 (~5000°K) illumination.
Important note #2: Our digital lab profiles are created specifically for each individual printer. These are not
generic profiles, nor should they be treated as such. Each printer and paper combination behaves
differently. Using highly optimized profiles on a printer other than the one they were made for can result in
worse performance than using no profile at all.
You can download our custom ICC profiles for our Frontier here. After downloading the profile, you need to
save it in a location that depends on what operating system you are using. The profiles are not
compressed, as the files can't be squeezed down significantly. The profile files work equally well on
Windows or Mac computers. Note that the profiles are binary files – they do not contain readily readable
information. Image editing applications such as Photoshop and color printer drivers are equipped to use
them. When you drop off your order tell us not to color correct it - print it straight "as is". ICC profiles are for
professionals or people that know what they are doing.
Computer ICC locations are:
Mac OS X: Storing profiles in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles allows all users to use them. An alternative area,
for users without Admin privileges, is /Users//Library/ColorSync/Profiles — any profiles stored here are
available only to the current user.
Mac OS 9.x: System Folder:ColorSync Profiles
Mac OS 9.x users who have difficulty loading profiles in Photoshop, please read this note.
Windows XP: \Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color
The easiest way to install a profile in Windows XP is to right click on the profile and select "install profile".
Windows copies the profile to the correct directory automatically.
Windows NT/2000: \Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
See above note for installing profiles in Windows XP - the same technique works in Windows 2000.
Windows 98/ME: \Windows\System\Color
All this information on ICC profiles was taken from www.drycreekphoto.com. For more information go check
them out. They have more information on how to calibrate your monitor and how to use printer profiles. The
also did test on different types of papers.
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