Full Path ICC Profile Workflow
- • a Generic RGB profile for matching destination devices
- • a Custom RGB ICC profile for calculating the current monitor’s color preserve for matching
- • a custom CMYK ICC profile for your destination device
How to generate a Custom CMYK ICC ?
A Custom CMYK ICC Profile is more complicated than generating a Unique RGB ICC. Your printer should provide it.
We have a lot of characters combination in running a print job, different elements with different characters, and the combination of those factors will totally influence the print effect, for example the print machine characters, the paper characters, the Screening, CMYK ink characters, etc. If we can obtain that component information accurately then we can ensure the color reproduction. A Custom CMYK ICC Profile, which has already obtained all information, can process the color separation and high-level print production.
To ensure the print color to match the monitor preview, we need a complete ICC profile workflow. Under the ICC Profile workflow that we can preview the color reproduction of the destination device, for example different kinds of printers or offset printing machine, if we can ready the full set of those devices’ ICC profile, that we can get the ideal result “What you see is what you get!”. The full set devices’ ICC profiles are:
“Main Compuad” can provide wild range Custom CMYK ICC Profile to meet different print job request, what ever you need a glossy paper or wood free card, AM or FM screening, huge quantity or small quantity, we can provide a complete solution for those specify print job, for details please refer to page 6.
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ICC Approved Version
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step1
WHAT is an ICC Profile?
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Custom ICC Profile Workflow?
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ICC Profile Function &
OS setting, Mac, Windows
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Custom Update RGB ICC Profile
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Target Device CMYK ICC Profile
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Application Software Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Acrobat
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step7
PDF x-1a format for output









