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Management and analysis of ICC profiles made easy

To keep control of the constantly growing number of ICC profiles on your computer, be it DeviceLink, printer, abstract, monitor or other types of profile, you need a tool that offers a variety of sorting and analysis capabilities. Particularly in the case of DeviceLink profiles, it is useful to later be able to check which source and target color spaces they were created for, and which color space combinations they are valid for (e.g. RGB-to-CMYK, CMYK-to- CMYK, CMYK-to-Multicolor). Sometimes, a few of your profiles may even have become obsolete, in which case you can simply select and delete them by right click/Delete.

And wouldn't it be wonderful if you could also see from your DeviceLink profiles whether the purity of the primary and secondary colors was preserved, or whether the black channel was perhaps accidentally reseparated instead of being composed solely of black? And what about the gray balance of your printer profile? Instead of tediously applying a profile to a test image and then using the eyedropper in an image editing program to measure the values, it usually suffices to take a look at the gradation curves of a profile on the Curves tab to get the certainty you need.

Automatic Profile Report

And if you then even had the possibility of right-clicking on a profile (printer or DeviceLink profile) to automatically generate a profile analysis report in the form of a PDF file that contains curves, color separations, gamut diagrams and conversions of meaningful test files to give you an overview of the quality of your profiles, you'd have more or less everything you could possibly want to know about your ICC profiles. This feature is available for ColorLogic customers of CoPrA, ZePrA, CoLiPri or DocBees Reprofiler.

Workflow optimization for ZePrA

As a user of ColorLogic's ZePrA color server, you no doubt appreciate the Auto Setup Wizard, which automatically sets the correct source and target profiles for a DeviceLink profile configuration, and enters the PDF/X information. However, this only works if the DeviceLink profile used actually contains the corresponding information. This is the case in the ColorLogic DeviceLink Sets. The Workflow tab of DocBees Profile Manager allows you to subsequently add this information to profiles you have created yourself. Profiles from other manufacturers can also be optimized for the ZePrA workflow in this way.

Colorants in Multicolor profiles

In packaging printing or hi-fi printing with more colors than CMYK, or with different colors, it is important that the channels in your profile are named in accordance with the colors used. This is important because it ensures that the channels in your PDF files and the color separations have recognizable names in the event of conversion using this profile. To make sure that the display of spot colors in Adobe programs like Photoshop and Acrobat is also relatively accurate, the correct color definitions should also be saved in the profile. You can enter both the color names and the Lab color values (Lab Values) for all color channels on the Colorants tab. This function is available both for Multicolor printer profiles and for Multicolor DeviceLink profiles.

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