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Mastering graphic chain: accuracy and quality

By using ICC profiles with several thousands of patches for color printings and linearization profiles dedicated to Black and White printings, we can guarantee you:

- Absolute respect of colorimetry: use of 5900 patches profiles to guarantee rendering of details as well in the high as the low lights and perfection of color gradation,

- Tuning of the high lights with the white of the paper: tonality of high lights correspond with the natural tint of paper (no breaking of tints),

- Optimization of printings density: best inking rates dedicated to the quality of papers used (contrasts are just even better),

- Linearization and neutralization of the rendering: optimization of the inking rates and grey levels neutral and true.

Soft proofing under Photoshop: interest and method

Soft proofing under Photoshop is an application that permits to preview on your screen the result of the printing BEFORE the send of your(s) data.

BE CAREFUL: for a true correspondence display/printings, you have to calibrate your screen with a gauge. This in the respect of the ISO 12646:2008 standard with these specifications:

- Screen color temperature between 5500°K and 6500°K,
- Gamma 2.2 (Mac as well PC),
- Luminance of 120cd/m².

1. Download profile of the paper corresponding with your printing. To install it on Windows, just right click on the desktop then "Install profile". On Mac OSX, put the ICC profile in "Library > ColorSync > Profiles".

2. Under Photoshop, open your image ready to print, and then click “Display > Proof format > Personalized”. Tick the window options strictly as indicated on the screen capture and select in the rolling menu “Simulating peripheral” the just installed ICC profile.

3. Notice modifications on the screen with ticking on and off alternatively “Preview”. Adjust yours corrections in consequence of the results of the screen test.

REMEMBER: Don’t forget that even with a perfectly gauged screen, this method is limited to the gamut of your display. Actually, this gamut cannot reproduce as many colors as a professional printing peripheral.

Remember: never increased your pictures before sending to us. This step should be done always just before the starting of the printing. Further, accentuation should be done according to the kind of printing support selected and be optimized according to it.