Printer Profiling Service 

This service provides customers with unique color printing profiles for their printers and various paper types of their choice to aid them in achieving accurate and consistent printing results.

What printer profiling is and why it is important

What is printer profiling? Printer profiling is the process of creating unique profiles for different types of papers for your specific printer. Using a print profile with your calibrated monitor yields closer and more consistent color results than avoiding the issue or allowing your printer to do its own internal color management. Remember that a profile is simply an equation that helps printers compensate for slight differences in the way it lays ink on paper.

Every printer will handle ink slightly differently, even two printers of the same make and model. Many printer companies attempt to remedy this by sending out approximate profiles for each model. Specialists create profiles for several of the exact same model, then average out the results. While this is better than nothing, it does not replace a unique profile.

Why print profile? Creating print profiles for different paper types allows greater control over your crucial color work. A properly calibrated monitor along with a print profile for each type of paper you use gives you a closed color loop—meaning that as long as you don’t change your settings, you’ll have repeatable color. The opposite—an open color system—would be if you used a calibrated monitor but then sent digital files to different labs for printing. In theory, labs keep tight control of their chemicals and processes but you can’t strictly rely on that because you can’t control their set-up.

General outline of the Printer Profiling Service:

1. Nowlin Photography will email a color chart file and complete instructions to customer. We can also send the color chart file on a CD-R via USPS, if necessary.
   
   
2. Customer prints the color chart file for each paper type he/she plans to use. Be sure to label each page with the paper name and surface.
   
   
3. Customer mails the papers to us in a well-protected envelope. Do not fold or roll prints. Prints must remain flat. Please be sure to include an email address where the profiles can be sent. Customer includes cashiers check or money order made out to Nowlin Photography for the appropriate price.
   
   
4. Nowlin Photography will create the profiles and email them to the address given, along with simple installation instructions and a receipt.

Retail Cost for Printer Profiling Service

1 profile - $99.00
2 profiles - $130.00
3 profiles - $150.00
All additional profiles - $50.00 each

Contact: services@nowlinphotography.com, 512-231-0395