/ Recent content in Build a custom ICC profile for your printer now! on Zygomatic Color Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2023/11/05/zygomatic-color-has-been-updated-november-2023/ Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2023/11/05/zygomatic-color-has-been-updated-november-2023/ Troubleshooting and faster calculation Zygomatic Color has been updated today. Zygomatic Color ICC profile creation did not work for years. Now it works. (Why was it left broken for so long? This service made almost no money! Lol) 3x faster calculation. Now Zygomatic Color generates ICC profile in ten minutes. No color conversion service now. Please use GIMP instead. /post/2020/07/29/when-to-use-absolute-colorimetric/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/07/29/when-to-use-absolute-colorimetric/ When to use ‘Absolute Colorimetric’? The concept of ‘Absolute Colorimetric’ is relatively easy. It counts paper color. Usually we use (255, 255, 255) as white, and we expect (245, 245, 245) prints very light gray. But in the color management world, most papers are darker than (245, 245, 245). In a sense, (245, 245, 245) should print no inks, i.e. clipping around white. This is what ‘Absolute Colorimetric’ does. In most cases, this is not what we expect. /post/2020/07/23/macos-epson-driver-doesnt-work-for-color-management/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/07/23/macos-epson-driver-doesnt-work-for-color-management/ macOS EPSON driver doesn’t work for color management I remember the age of QuarkXpress 3.3J. In Japan, QuarkXpress 3.3J on Mac OS 9 was a gold standard of DTP. Twenty years have passed, I cannot find macOS in the industry. DTP or printing on paper isn’t a growth industry. Apple abandoned the market many years ago, I guess. They concentrated on growth industries like iPhone app developments. macOS is and always was notorious for the poor quality. /post/2020/07/19/how-to-evaluate-the-color-accuracy-of-an-icc-profile-by-your-scanner/ Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/07/19/how-to-evaluate-the-color-accuracy-of-an-icc-profile-by-your-scanner/ Introduction Accurate color is what you want, yes I know. Zygomatic Color promises it. But… It may sound strange, but, it is not a very good measure of ICC profile’s quality. Some ICC profiles perform excellent in the viewpoint of color accuracy. But it never promises a graceful gradation reproduction. If you print just color charts, such ICC profiles are excellent for you. But if you print gradation, you should evaluate the quality from various angles. /post/2020/07/02/how-better-is-a-photo-scanner-than-an-all-in-ones/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/07/02/how-better-is-a-photo-scanner-than-an-all-in-ones/ Sorry, Zygomatic Color absolutely requires a flatbet photo scanner All-in-one (AIO) printers are everywhere. Flatbet photo scanners are much rare. I do want to make compatible Zygomatic Color with AIO’s scanners. But it is hopeless. Today I’ll explain why. The image above is the comparison of: Theoretically accurate colors The scanned image by EPSON Perfection V600 photo scanner The scanned image by an AIO’s scanner It doesn’t appear very striking yet. /post/2020/07/02/zygomatic-color-has-been-updated-july-2020/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/07/02/zygomatic-color-has-been-updated-july-2020/ Bug fixes and faster calculation Zygomatic Color has been updated today. Evaluation PDFs has right embedded ICC profile now. 2x faster calculation. Now Zygomatic Color generates ICC profile in a half hour. /post/2020/05/30/how-to-use-zygomatic-colors-profile-in-photoshop-windows/ Sat, 30 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/30/how-to-use-zygomatic-colors-profile-in-photoshop-windows/ In short: Open the source image in Photoshop. ‘Edit → Assign Profile…’ and confirm the color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, Display P3, etc.) is right. ‘File → Print…’, click ‘Printer Setup: Print Settings…’, and choose the printer driver settings which you used to make the profile. ‘Color Management: Color Handling’ should be ‘Photoshop Manages Colors.’ ‘Color Management: Printer Profile’ should be Zygomatic Color’s profile. Choose a suffix according to the source color space. /post/2020/05/25/how-to-take-a-colorimetric-photo/ Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/25/how-to-take-a-colorimetric-photo/ Disclaimer A camera is not a photo scanner. If you need a very colorimetric image, consider using a flatbed photo scanner first. A flatbed photo scanner cannot fit three-dimensional objects, but in the first place, they don’t fit well to the usual color management. Prerequisite knowledge The color management is, usually (there are non-usual special color managements), about final products. It manages just final products, not everything in the world. /post/2020/05/13/for-canon-selphy-cp-series-sample-icc-profile/ Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/13/for-canon-selphy-cp-series-sample-icc-profile/ Download and inspect sample ICC profile If you have a Canon Selphy CP series… Want to see the quality of Zygomatic Color with your own eyes? Try this ICC profile and evaluation PDF: Download: Canon_Selphy_CP1200.zip The profile is made by CP1200, but all other CP series (CP1300 / CP1200 / CP910 / CP900 / CP800 / CP790 / CP780 / CP770 / CP760 / CP750 / CP740 / CP730 / CP720 / CP710 / CP600 / CP510 / CP500 / CP400) will be identical. /post/2020/05/12/casual-color-management-in-the-consumer-land/ Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/12/casual-color-management-in-the-consumer-land/ What all you need is a 30 USD dichroic halogen lamp, may be In short: A wide gamut and/or color management display has many drawbacks. Try to live with your own display. High CRI LEDs aren’t very good. Buy a dichroic halogen lamp for 30 USD. External Xenon flash is your camera’s friend. If you buy a camera, don’t forget about a hot shoe. Five year old secondhand cameras are still top-tier now. /post/2020/05/09/perceptual-rendering-intent-b2a0-of-an-excellent-icc-profile/ Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/09/perceptual-rendering-intent-b2a0-of-an-excellent-icc-profile/ Consumers and printing companies I feel the industry, color printing, is going to be divided into two lands: Consumers and printing companies. Zygomatic Color stands in the former. Printing companies should have a turnkey system including RIP and sales guys, no need for Zygomatic Color. The discrepancy between two lands is especially troublesome about perceptual rendering intent (RI). Very insiders of printing companies don’t care about it, and consumers don’t face it. /post/2020/05/06/common-inkjet-printer-drivers-accept-only-rgb-images-and-it-is-a-good-design-theoretically/ Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/06/common-inkjet-printer-drivers-accept-only-rgb-images-and-it-is-a-good-design-theoretically/ Why we don’t have CMYK capable printers? I’ve always wondered why common inkjet printer drivers don’t accept CMYK images. Inks are CMYK. Common inkjet printers can accept CMYK images, definitely. I couldn’t understand the design of inkjet printer drivers which accept only RGB images. Before we proceed, let’s confirm the basics about printing. Light magenta and light cyan are not about gamut. They are for avoiding noticeable dots in flat colors. /post/2020/05/06/some-quick-checks-for-the-quality-of-a-printer-profile-without-printing/ Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/06/some-quick-checks-for-the-quality-of-a-printer-profile-without-printing/ Without printing, easy, quick checks Some printer profiles are excellent, some are fine, and some are poor. How can we know the quality? Actually it is not a piece of cake. ICC profile is a monster in this viewpoint. Let’s leave scientific problems (like colorimetric precision) aside. In this article, I look at some practical and engineering points. Sometimes paper and inks are expensive, so we want to know the quality before printing. /post/2020/05/05/dig-into-the-spectral-world-by-fluorescence-color-chart/ Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/05/dig-into-the-spectral-world-by-fluorescence-color-chart/ Inverted Platonic idealism Visible light is a continuous spectral phenomenon. Wavelength distribution is the essential nature of colors. But we live in the tristimulus world. Our eyes cannot see wavelength distribution clearly. We can feel the color rendering property of an illuminant to some extent, but not always, not clearly. The situation reminds me of Platonic idealism. Plato thought that only ideas are the essential nature of things; Tangible things are non-essential; Only ideas are truth, universal, and eternal; Our five senses are an unreliable way to know ideas; The right way to true ideas is introspection and logic. /post/2020/05/04/a-good-case-to-use-perceptual-rendering-intent/ Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/04/a-good-case-to-use-perceptual-rendering-intent/ A peacock from a pigeon In short: Casual photos taken by phones are good for perceptual rendering intent (RI). In other cases, use colorimetric RI and edit the colors by your hand. In long: In Japan (I live in Japan), convenience stores are everywhere, and they provide MFP as a service. The MFP can print photos from phones. I studied the MFPs, and I found they ignore embedded ICC profiles. /post/2020/05/04/why-zygomatic-color-doesnt-adopt-icc-profile-v4/ Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/04/why-zygomatic-color-doesnt-adopt-icc-profile-v4/ In short: The new feature of ICC profile v4 is useless for you. In long: I don’t mean to say anything bad about ICC, but I guess you have a common knowledge about a technical committee. A technical committee never makes a new big thing. It always gathers existing success stories and joins them together by compromise. Sometimes it works fine, for example, the programming language Java. Sometimes it makes garbage, for example, W3C/IETF often did. /post/2020/05/02/the-failure-of-windows-color-systems-new-feature/ Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/05/02/the-failure-of-windows-color-systems-new-feature/ A non-long-awaited feature Do you remember Windows Vista? Windows 2000 was an epoch. Most people lived in the internet age of 1999 remember the first impression of Windows 2000, the atmosphere of the room, and the colleagues there. XP left a similar (but much weaker) impression. But Vista? The impression is vague for most people, I guess. Windows Vista had a bunch of new features. Windows Aero, ClearType, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Search, UAC, BitLocker, IPv6, etc, etc. /post/2020/04/30/color-science-is-an-art/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/04/30/color-science-is-an-art/ Once upon a time in physics Before the age of particle accelerators and radio telescopes, physics was quite tangible. Issac Newton wrote a book, Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. The book describes about optics, just as its title says. A famous guy who read the book found that optics isn’t everything of (visible) light for human being. The guy was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who wrote a book, Theory of Colours (Zur Farbenlehre). /post/2020/03/26/for-sublinova-ink-and-polyester-blanks-sample-icc-profile/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/03/26/for-sublinova-ink-and-polyester-blanks-sample-icc-profile/ Download and inspect the sample ICC profile If you use SubliNova ink, polyester blanks (T-shirts, banners, etc.), Windows, and EPSON 4-color pigment printer… Want to see the quality of Zygomatic Color with your own eyes? Try this ICC profile and evaluation PDF: Download: sublinova-epson4color-polyester.zip How good is this profile? Printed and scanned image: The photo paper’s printer is also calibrated by Zygomatic Color, of course. Make your ICC profile Do you want an ICC profile for your printing system? /post/2020/02/28/the-colorspace-of-source-image-in-icc-profile/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/28/the-colorspace-of-source-image-in-icc-profile/ Do you want to dig through ICC profile? You might feel ‘ICC profile is too hard to be well informed.’ That’s absolutely right, far beyond you imagine. If you want to dig through ICC profile, please do it yourself. This article describes about just one point of ICC profile. Quite a few points are there. For example, this article describes the deep point of polyline approximation problem of ICC profile. /post/2020/02/25/black-point-compensation-and-untrue-black-ink/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/25/black-point-compensation-and-untrue-black-ink/ Relative Colorimetric with BPC and Perceptual In many cases, you’ll choose Intent: Relative Colorimetric and check Use Black Point Compensation at Convert to Profile of Photoshop. Otherwise you’ll choose Intent: Perceptual. In many cases, they work well. In rare cases, they don’t. You should know about such cases until you choose them. The phenomenon Most dye-based black inks are noticeably untrue black. In other words, a* and / or b* isn’t close enough to zero. /post/2020/02/23/epson-4-color-pigment-printers-list-for-sample-icc-profiles-of-sublimation-inks/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/23/epson-4-color-pigment-printers-list-for-sample-icc-profiles-of-sublimation-inks/ EPSON 4-color pigment printers EPSON offers DURABrite Ultra pigment ink from 2007. The printers for the ink has been widely used for dye sublimation. The behavior of these printers are almost identical (there is indivisual difference, of course). You can use Zygomatic Color’s sample ICC profiles for sublimation for these models. Stylus C68, CX5800F, CX3810, CX4800, CX4200, CX3800, CX7800, C88, C88+, NX105, NX200, CX8400, NX215, C120, CX9475Fax, NX515, NX510, NX415, NX305, N11, CX7000F, NX300, CX7400, NX110, CX6000, CX7450, NX100, NX115, CX9400Fax. /post/2020/02/20/for-sublinova-ink-and-ceramic-blanks-sample-icc-profile/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/20/for-sublinova-ink-and-ceramic-blanks-sample-icc-profile/ Download and inspect the sample ICC profile If you use SubliNova ink, ceramic blanks (tiles, mugs, plates, etc.), Windows, and EPSON 4-color pigment printer… Want to see the quality of Zygomatic Color with your own eyes? Try this ICC profile and evaluation PDF: Download: sublinova-epson4color-ceramic.zip How good is this profile? Printed and scanned image: The photo paper’s printer is also calibrated by Zygomatic Color, of course. Mugs? Yes you can use this sample ICC profile for ceramic mugs, too. /post/2020/02/20/illuminant-dependency-of-printed-colors/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/20/illuminant-dependency-of-printed-colors/ Illuminant dependency from the spectral world and fluorescent whitening agents First of all, please compare these images: There should be quite a few facts. I want to focus on these facts: According to the scanner, the photo paper is darker than the ceramic tile. But under Xenon flash, it is the opposite. Under Xenon flash, the colors shift to cyan. The photo paper’s image shifts to green-ish cyan, and the ceramic tile’s image shifts to blue-ish cyan. /post/2020/02/11/the-pithole-of-some-existing-icc-profile-builders-for-common-printers/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/11/the-pithole-of-some-existing-icc-profile-builders-for-common-printers/ Be aware of noisy gradation In short: Some existing ICC profile builders fail to make smooth gradation, especially for common printers. Zygomatic Color can do it. In long: It is a long long story. The pithole of some existing ICC profile builders Let’s see the performance of some existing ICC profile builders. The screenshot below shows the color of untuned gray gradation of each ICC profiles. Look at the red and blue curves. /post/2020/02/09/how-to-print-true-gray-by-common-inkjet-printer/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/09/how-to-print-true-gray-by-common-inkjet-printer/ ‘How can I print true gray by my common inkjet printer?’ In short: Sorry, it is impossible. You can just counterfeit. Not genuine gray as you wish. Zygomatic Color is the best ICC profile builder for the job. In long: It is a long long story. Three primary colors… Is it true? Have you ever tried to make achromatic color by mixing color paints? It should be possible if the ‘three primary colors’ theory is true. /post/2020/02/04/in-plane-fluctuation-of-common-inkjet-printer/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/02/04/in-plane-fluctuation-of-common-inkjet-printer/ What is in-plane fluctuation? In this real world, nothing goes ideally. Your printer doesn’t work ideally, too. In most cases, your eyes cannot find the divergences. It’s not a coincidence. It’s an art. The art of printer manufacturers. Let’s see one of such divergences. On Photoshop, make a patch of 6 mm (1/4″) square of solid black, copy and paste it a lot horizontally (along to printer head moving direction), and print the image by an inkjet printer. /post/2020/01/23/for-epson-surecolor-p600-sample-icc-profile/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/01/23/for-epson-surecolor-p600-sample-icc-profile/ Download and inspect sample ICC profile If you have an EPSON SureColor P600 and EPSON Premium Photo Paper Glossy… Want to see the quality of Zygomatic Color with your own eyes? Try this ICC profile and evaluation PDF: Download: SC-P600_20200123_Premium_Photo_Paper.zip Quick comparison with EPSON’s ICC profile It shows the gamut of both. Good agreement overall, but there are disagreements too. EPSON’s profile claims L*a*b*=(50, -80, 20)(media-relative) is capable. Really? The nearest neighbour color sample (Pantone, NCS, RAL, etc. /post/2020/01/14/no-color-adjustment-may-be-hard-to-achieve/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2020/01/14/no-color-adjustment-may-be-hard-to-achieve/ What is “No Color Adjustment”? Source colorspace (sRGB, Adobe RGB, Display P3, etc.) is three-dimensional. R, one, G, two, B, three. But most color printer has 4-color at least. Source colorspace → N-color mapping should be there. The mapping is a typical colorspace conversion. You might think about CMYK profile. Please stop. Most printer drivers don’t have CMYK interface. CMYK (or N-color) interface isn’t preferable for most cases. The story is too long to tell you here. /post/2019/11/26/for-sublinova-ink-and-pbt-phone-case-sample-icc-profile/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2019/11/26/for-sublinova-ink-and-pbt-phone-case-sample-icc-profile/ Download and inspect the sample ICC profile If you use SubliNova ink, MANNIYA’s PBT phone case, Windows, and EPSON 4-color pigment printer… Want to see the quality of Zygomatic Color with your own eyes? Try this ICC profile and evaluation PDF: Download: sublinova-epson4color-pbt.zip Look at a glance The gradation above is printing image. It generates achromatic gradation with SubliNova ink and EPSON PX-105 (Japan model). Other EPSON 4-color pigment printers will work similar, I guess. /continue-from-printed-target-image/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /continue-from-printed-target-image/ Upload printed target image You can continue from printed target image. Step 1 and 2 are both welcome. Upload printed target image You can upload multiple files. Scanned image of printed target: Remove Add Upload $(function () { $.profile_builder = new Object(); $.profile_builder.web_store_url = "https://orgkaorihaprofilebuilderwebprod.s3.amazonaws.com/"; const api_url = "https://hyo51eo88g.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/api/"; const module_name = "profile_builder_20231016"; const delay = t = new Promise(resolve = setTimeout(() = resolve(), t)); function invoke_api(func_name, data, is_async) { if (is_async) { data['async'] = true; } else { delete data['async']; } function async_promise(response) { const call_uuid = response['call_uuid']; return delay(5000). /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Download target PDF Download step 1 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 1 target image Scanned image of printed step 1 target: Upload Check the target image I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than four. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Download target PDF Download step 1 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 1 target image Scanned image of printed step 1 target: Upload Check the target image I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than four. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/step1/ Download target PDF Download step 1 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 1 target image Scanned image of printed step 1 target: Upload Check the target image I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than four. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Download target PDF Download step 2 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 2 target image You can upload multiple files. Scanned image of printed step 2 target: Remove Add Upload Check the target image #1 I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than twelve. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Download target PDF Download step 2 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 2 target image Scanned image of printed step 2 target: Upload Check the target image I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than twelve. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/step2/ Download target PDF Download step 2 target PDF Print and scan Follow the instruction in the target PDF. Upload Upload printed step 2 target image You can upload multiple files. Scanned image of printed step 2 target: Remove Add Upload Check the target image #1 I cannot detect some patches. I put red boxes in the image above. No problem if less than twelve. If you think bad, print - scan - upload again. /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Download evaluation PDF Download evaluation PDF Print and evaluate Follow the instruction in the evaluation PDF. Purchase Download your ICC profile Download ICC profile This page expires after 30 days. $(function () { $.profile_builder = new Object(); $.profile_builder.web_store_url = "https://orgkaorihaprofilebuilderwebprod.s3.amazonaws.com/"; const api_url = "https://hyo51eo88g.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/api/"; const module_name = "profile_builder_20231016"; const delay = t = new Promise(resolve = setTimeout(() = resolve(), t)); function invoke_api(func_name, data, is_async) { if (is_async) { data['async'] = true; } else { delete data['async']; } function async_promise(response) { const call_uuid = response['call_uuid']; return delay(5000). /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Download evaluation PDF Download evaluation PDF Print and evaluate Follow the instruction in the evaluation PDF. Purchase Download your ICC profile Download ICC profile This page expires after 30 days. $(function () { $.profile_builder = new Object(); $.profile_builder.web_store_url = "https://orgkaorihaprofilebuilderwebprod.s3.amazonaws.com/"; const api_url = "https://hyo51eo88g.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/api/"; const module_name = "profile_builder_20231016"; const delay = t = new Promise(resolve = setTimeout(() = resolve(), t)); function invoke_api(func_name, data, is_async) { if (is_async) { data['async'] = true; } else { delete data['async']; } function async_promise(response) { const call_uuid = response['call_uuid']; return delay(5000). /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/evaluation/ Download evaluation PDF Download evaluation PDF Print and evaluate Follow the instruction in the evaluation PDF. Purchase Download your ICC profile Download ICC profile This page expires after 30 days. $(function () { $.profile_builder = new Object(); $.profile_builder.web_store_url = "https://orgkaorihaprofilebuilderwebprod.s3.amazonaws.com/"; const api_url = "https://hyo51eo88g.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/api/"; const module_name = "profile_builder_20231016"; const delay = t = new Promise(resolve = setTimeout(() = resolve(), t)); function invoke_api(func_name, data, is_async) { if (is_async) { data['async'] = true; } else { delete data['async']; } function async_promise(response) { const call_uuid = response['call_uuid']; return delay(5000). /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Build ICC profile online My offer I offer ICC profile building service for printing systems. The service is: A fee‐based online service, 50 USD excl. VAT. 15 days money-back guarantee. You don’t need a colorimeter. Just a flatbed photo scanner. You’ll get an evaluation PDF before you pay. You can print the PDF and inspect the result. No need to pay if you are not satisfied with the quality. /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Build ICC profile online My offer I offer ICC profile building service for printing systems. The service is: A fee‐based online service, 50 USD excl. VAT. 15 days money-back guarantee. You don’t need a colorimeter. Just a flatbed photo scanner. You’ll get an evaluation PDF before you pay. You can print the PDF and inspect the result. No need to pay if you are not satisfied with the quality. /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/configuration/ Build ICC profile online Preparation Do you know about ICC profiles for printing systems? If you have no experience with it, you have a long way to go. It is not an out-of-the-box solution. If you need such one, ask for Sawgrass. But if you are willing to go the long way, it is worth it, especially in terms of cost, flexibility, and accuracy. I offer ICC profile building service for phone case printing. /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Modeling of tone reproduction curve I made an approximate model of tone reproduction curve by regression analysis on the color data from the scanned target image. The model has discrepancy to some degree from the color data, because the model isn’t interpolation. The ICC profile will be calculated from the model. So the accuracy of the ICC profile is limited to the model. If the discrepancy is quite small, the ICC profile can be quite accurate (according to your scanner, at least). /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Modeling of tone reproduction curve I made an approximate model of tone reproduction curve by regression analysis on the color data from the scanned target image. The model has discrepancy to some degree from the color data, because the model isn’t interpolation. The ICC profile will be calculated from the model. So the accuracy of the ICC profile is limited to the model. If the discrepancy is quite small, the ICC profile can be quite accurate (according to your scanner, at least). /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/pre-evaluation/ Modeling of tone reproduction curve I made an approximate model of tone reproduction curve by regression analysis on the color data from the scanned target image. The model has discrepancy to some degree from the color data, because the model isn’t interpolation. The ICC profile will be calculated from the model. So the accuracy of the ICC profile is limited to the model. If the discrepancy is quite small, the ICC profile can be quite accurate (according to your scanner, at least). /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/printable-area/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/printable-area/ What is your blank phone case? The default dimension below is for iPhone XS. Measure and input the dimension of your blank phone case. You can specify excluding area for camera hole. Preview of printable area Total page size including outer margin: XX x XX mm Unit Inch millimeter Circumscribed rectangle of the printable area Width: Height: Excluding rectangle(s) of the printable area The origin of coordinates is top left corner of the circumscribed rectangle. /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /4x6-photo-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Scanner calibration Do you have Macbeth chart (X-Rite ColorChecker Classic) or SpyderCHECKR 24? If not, I strongly recommend to get either of one. I can calibrate your scanner by them. Scan your color chart by your scanner. TIFF, embedded Adobe RGB, 720 DPI. 24-bit color is OK, but 48-bit is much better. Any ‘image correction’ should be disabled. If you need wider gamut than Adobe RGB for your printed target, you can use 48-bit ProPhoto RGB too. /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /8x10-photo-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Scanner calibration Do you have Macbeth chart (X-Rite ColorChecker Classic) or SpyderCHECKR 24? I can calibrate your scanner by them. Scan your color chart by your scanner. TIFF, embedded Adobe RGB, 720 DPI. 24-bit color is OK, but 48-bit is much better. Any ‘image correction’ should be disabled. If you need wider gamut than Adobe RGB for your printed target, you can use 48-bit ProPhoto RGB too. 24-bit ProPhoto RGB is unacceptable because its quantization error is too large. /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/calibration/ Scanner calibration Do you have Macbeth chart (X-Rite ColorChecker Classic) or SpyderCHECKR 24? If not, I strongly recommend to get either of one. I can calibrate your scanner by them. Scan your color chart by your scanner. TIFF, embedded Adobe RGB, 720 DPI. 24-bit color is OK, but 48-bit is much better. Any ‘image correction’ should be disabled. If you need wider gamut than Adobe RGB for your printed target, you can use 48-bit ProPhoto RGB too. /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/error/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /phone-case-printer-profile-builder/error/ System error System error has been happened. There are several possibilities: Your target is expired. System trouble. /paypal-test/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /paypal-test/ /thank-you/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /thank-you/ Thank you for purchasing! I send you your ICC profile by email soon.