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veselind41995541
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February 1, 2019
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Editing printer color profile (.icm) Epson (making it put 100% more ink)

  • February 1, 2019
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Hello,

Let me introduce myself - I am Veselin and I am doing sublimation printing. I want to offer quality products and because of that I made a custom profile with a recently bought color calibrator (Colormunky photo).

Don't ask how and why but basically I found out that my profile puts too little ink - I did double prints (yes, strange but I actually printed one thing and printed on top of it on the same page the same thing again) and then the print is slightly darker but if I edit it a little in photoshop with opacity 89% and play a little with levels result is perfect. So basicly what I need is a way to make the profile or printer but like double the quantity of ink (or 100% more) and then just edit it in photoshop. I wonder if there is any software for editing printer color profiles or a way to just edit the DENSITY of the colors/inks?

In short I need a way to make the profile put about 180% more ink (or 200% and I will edit in Photoshop the opacity of the layers and the levels of brightness).

I really hope your tool can assist me or that you can direct me to a way that I can adjust ink density in the printer icm profile

I tried creating a profile for matte paper on high quality but it does not work and result is still the same - not saturated enough media when printing - so I just need a way to put more ink when printing. I am open to suggestions, thank you.

Best Wishes

Veselin

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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February 2, 2019

Are you using the printer driver or RIP?

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    veselind41995541Author
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    February 2, 2019

    Hello and thank younfor the response.

    I print on desktop printers (Epson XP-342, Epson L805) and I print using photoshop cc with printer settings (for paper etc and no color management) and “photoshop manages colors” while using the profile I created with Relative colorimetric setting. PS document is Adobe RGB 1998

    Colors overal look faded when sublimated on metal and black is also kind of faded. The results are good if I “double print” like I mentioned above but this is rediculous for doing it all the time.

    Best Wishes

      Stephen Marsh
      Community Expert
      Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 2, 2019

      Points to keep in mind (in no particular order of importance):

      • The printer drivers are designed around genuine OEM inks and paper, not 3rd party inks or paper
      • The Epson printer drivers are RGB based
      • The printer performs an internal conversion to deliver the ink from the RGB driver
      • The printer driver settings control how the ink is delivered, this is an indirect process, not direct
      • Using an ICC profile requires the same driver settings to be used as when colour profile charts were printed
      • Using an ICC profile in the print settings can sometimes lead to worse print results than driver settings alone

      So my advice is to use the printer driver settings that deliver the “best” results with your ink and media. This may mean that you have to use matte black ink and not photo black ink for a specific media (if an option for your printer) or that you have to use “unintuitive” printer driver settings to deliver the desired ink to the media – such as using a semi gloss photo paper setting when using a third party media that appears to be gloss. You will likely have to made trade-offs around the best red, greens, blues and other key colours vs. the best neutral grey values vs. the best gradations vs. the deepest/richest blacks that are not over-inked etc.

      Good luck!

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