Welcome

ColourProfiles.com is devoted to helping discerning photographers get the best quality colour output from their digital darkrooms.

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One of the most annoying problems facing photographers moving to digital printing is the difficulty of getting the colours of their inkjet prints to match the colours shown on their computer monitor. The process needed to achieve this is called colour management, or Colour Management System(CMS).
Although some web sites on colour management manage to make it sound very difficult and complex, using colour management is actually very simple. Please use the links on the left to learn more.

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Experienced digital photographers will already know of colour management and appreciate the need for accurate colour profiles to ensure precision output. We supply high quality, custom made printer profiles - at an affordable cost - to enable photographers to reliably deliver matched colour output from their printers with their preferred choice of paper and ink.

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We can not only profile any desktop inkjet printer from Epson, Canon or HP, but also the wide carriage printers like the Epson 7800 and 9800. Plus we can also profile colour laser printers, dye-subs, printers using sublimation inks and unusual materials like canvas or transparent sheet materials.
Our printer profiles are suitable for both Windows and Apple Mac systems. Throughout the site we have used screenshots from Windows based software, but most aspects of colour management are similar on both operating systems.
Please use our glossary page to explain any terms you may be unfamiliar with.
Being an English business we use the English spelling of the word colour, except when referring to menu options in software when spelt the American way.


 
News; May 2012
  • Posting targets to us

    Unfortunately we've recently had a few packages sent to us without sufficient postage. This adds to our costs and delays us receiving the package, so please check carefully that you put the correct value of stamps on your package for the size and weight of it.
     
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS5.5, CS6
    Adobe's latest versions of Photoshop since CS5 have changed a long standing feature of colour management in it's print process. The new versions have removed the 'no colour management option when printing which we normally ask our customers to use when printing their profiling targets.
    Adobe have now released a free utility to print printer profiling targets without using CS5 or later. Please read about it here
     
  • Mac issues
    Upgrades to the latest Mac operating system have caused a few problems for some customers when printing profiling targets with Adobe Photoshop CS4(please see our note above with respect to CS5). Particularly effected are Epson and some Canon printers. PLease use the utility mentioned above to resolve these issues
     
  • Fourth profile free

    If you order three profiles from us, you'll get a fourth profile completely free of charge. You don't need to order all four at the same time, try us for one and then order the other three when you find out how great our profiles are.
    This brings the effective price per profile down to just £11.25 or £9.38 plus VAT.
     
  • Site update soon

    We're working on a new updated site and hope to make it live just after the new version of Photoshop CS6 is released.