Using ICC profile to adjust image colors

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October 2, 2021
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Hi everyone!

This may seem like a strange question. I am using a Brother GTX Pro (Direct to Garment Printer) and I am having some very massive color problems.

Is it possible for me to create a ICC color profile (using X-Rite i1Profiler) and then use that profile to modify the image?

What I mean is that I am unable to use the profile to modify how the printer prints, but I CAN modify the image.

What I can manually do is print a color watch and then find the color I want and do a color replace-- but that is time consuming and has to be repeated for each graphic.

IS it possible to somehow take that custom generated profile-- which for example knows that for square 1 it printed XXX and it needs to be YYY so adjust it ZZZ to actually change the image to YYY so that when I save the file and take it to the printer software it will print what it actually should be?

Thank you so much in advance for any help!

Jonathan.

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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"Is it possible for me to create a ICC color profile (using X-Rite i1Profiler) and then use that profile to modify the image?"

Yes. Depending on the profiling software you are using, you can definitely create a profile based on various sample fabrics. .

Still, this sounds like something that should have come with your printer (i.e. predefined ICC profiles), which should be satisfactory if the printer is calibrated properly, which is an important step even if you're creating a profile of your own.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

You can't print a colour that is out of gamut. You create the output profile for a given fabric, such as white with no white ink. You will also create a profile for say a black fabric with print white. You then use the profile for softproofing, adjusting the source image colours so that they produce an acceptable result based on the limitations of the print process. The output profile that you create could be either RGB or CMYK depending on whether you use the OEM printer driver or a RIP.

D Fosse

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I think maybe Color Lookup Tables is what you need (I haven't worked with it myself, so I have no personal experience).

Here's Julieanne Kost:

https://jkost.com/blog/2014/09/5555-exporting-color-lookup-tables-in-photoshop-cc.html

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