Colour profiles

What it does

Studio keeps colour profiles for your press models: an ICC profile or a set of ink curves. There are two sources, and Studio shows where each came from.

• Your shop's own, added by you with the day it was measured and who measured it.
• PostPress's library, which we publish for every shop.

For a press model and media, Studio chooses one profile. Your shop's own beats the library's, however old. Within one source, the newest measuring day wins, and a profile put away is never chosen. Each row shows the measuring day, who measured it, and, where it was measured, the ΔE 2000 against the chart. Where nobody measured a figure, it says so: it never makes one up.

Why it matters for your shop

• Your measurements win. A profile you measured on your press and your vinyl is the one used, not ours.
• You can see where it came from. Each profile says its source, its measuring day and its difference from the chart.
• Nothing is deleted. A better profile is a new row; an old one is put away.

Built, not yet applied

Colour profiles are built: you can add them, and Studio chooses and shows one. They are not yet applied. The chosen profile is not handed to the RIP or applied to a job. That waits for Studio's own RIP, and until then the ICC profile your RIP uses is the one set in your RIP.

How to use it

1. Open Presses. Under the presets is a section headed Colour profiles, with a heading for each press model. Fetch profiles again asks the library once more.
2. Press Add your profile and give the file, the media, the day it was measured and who measured it.
3. Read the chosen profile and the ones Not chosen, each with where it came from.