EZPrints ICC Profile

belf · December 16, 2005

Hi There,

In Smugmug's help section, there used to a link to download an ICC profile for their frontier printers. I remembered the link wasn't obvious but I can't seem to find it again.

Any help in finding the profile would be appreciated!

Thanks
-belf

flyingdutchie · December 16, 2005

belf wrote:

Hi There,

In Smugmug's help section, there used to a link to download an ICC profile for their frontier printers. I remembered the link wasn't obvious but I can't seem to find it again.

Any help in finding the profile would be appreciated!

Thanks
-belf

I just did a Google and i found you can download it from EZPrints as well:
On the page
http://www.ezprints.com/help/IccProfileHelp.asp
You'll find this link on the right (a little towards the bottom)
http://www.ezprints.com/software/ezprints.icc

jfriend · December 16, 2005

ezprints icc profile

belf wrote:

Hi There,

In Smugmug's help section, there used to a link to download an ICC profile for their frontier printers. I remembered the link wasn't obvious but I can't seem to find it again.

Any help in finding the profile would be appreciated!

Thanks
-belf

A google search for "ezprints icc profile" yields these in the first few hits:

ezprints ICC profile help
smugmug's advanced printing help

winnjewett · December 18, 2005

Why do I need to save my files using EZprints profile? Why can't they read my profile, and adjust accordingly?

-winn

flyingdutchie · December 18, 2005

winnjewett wrote:

Why do I need to save my files using EZprints profile? Why can't they read my profile, and adjust accordingly?

-winn

You should not save your files using EZPrints. EZPrints.icc is a soft-proofing profile only.
If you're using photoshop:

-Put your working space color-space to the standard sRGB or AdobeRGB. This is part of your photoshop setup.
-Configure soft-proofing using EZPrints.icc. This is part of your photoshop setup.
-Edit your pic.
-Switch on soft-proofing, Ctrl+Y, (using ezprints.icc) to see how you prints would look on paper, and edit your pic if necessary.
-Save your file (the working space color-space will be saved inside your pic (sRGB or AdobeRGB)).

In short, do NOT convert your pic using ezprints.icc, nor attach ezprints.icc to your pic.

jfriend · December 18, 2005

winnjewett wrote:

Why do I need to save my files using EZprints profile? Why can't they read my profile, and adjust accordingly?

-winn

First of all, you don't save a file using a device profile. You may view it or soft-proof it with a specific device profile, but you shouldn't save it with that profile. Instead, you save a file using an industry standard profile like sRGB or AdobeRGB. That profile means that your image's R, G and B values correspond to a relatively standard definition. Various output devices then take that standard definition in your print and render it as close to the standard definition as possible using the capabilities of the specific device.

An output device (screen, printer, etc...) has a native profile. That profile describes the device's ability to produce various colors. Every device has things it's good at and things it's not good at. The device profile describes what the device is capable of rendering. For example, the type of printers that EzPrints has are capable of rendering shadow detail that home ink jets are not capable of, but cannot render ultra-vibrant colors that don't normally occur in nature while your home inkjet can. The device profile contains this kind of information.

When you do something like "soft-prroof" with a specific device profile, you are telling Photoshop that you want to see an approximation of what this image will look like when it is rendered on the device with this profile. Photoshop will then attempt to impose the limitations of that output device on your image and show it to you on screen. Soft-proofing isn't perfect because the screen itself has some limitations that may not support everything the device is capable of rendering, but for many issues, it's a good first start.

Andy · December 18, 2005

onethumb · December 19, 2005

flyingdutchie wrote:

-Put your working space color-space to the standard sRGB or AdobeRGB. This is part of your photoshop setup.

If you want to share on the web or print with any of the good labs, DO NOT use AdobeRGB.

sRGB is the only color profile used by almost every web browser on earth.

It's also the profile expected by almost every lab-quality photo printer.

If you use something else, your photos and prints will look washed out.

Don

flyingdutchie · December 19, 2005

onethumb wrote:

If you want to share on the web or print with any of the good labs, DO NOT use AdobeRGB.

sRGB is the only color profile used by almost every web browser on earth.

It's also the profile expected by almost every lab-quality photo printer.

If you use something else, your photos and prints will look washed out.

Don

for 110%
For EZPrints do NOT use adobeRGB.

(I mentioned adobeRGB as well for using soft-proofing profiles in general, not just the ezprints one. If your inkjet printer can handle adobeRGB, then do use adobeRGB)

EZPrints ICC Profile

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