2) Open the target with Adobe Acrobat Reader (you can download Acrobat Reader from
www.adobe.com for free)
3) “File” – “print”
4) In the Print- window: - choose the printer that your going to print on,
- the “print range” should be set as print “ALL” (under the print menu),
- “page handling” should be copies “1”,
- “page scaling” should be at “none”,
- “auto-rotate” and “centre” should be checked.
- the rest should be unchecked.
5) “properties” on printer box: - choose suitable settings for your printer for the paper that you are going to print the targets on. (f.ex. kind of paper, print resolution, color sliders should all be in the middle.)
6) look that none of the automatic enhancements are checked, everything needs to be unchecked, and if you have a choice to choose no color correction, no color management, no color controls or colors managed by application or something similar option setting - choose this setting!
7) write down all the settings you choose for this targets to print! Later for profile to work it must be set with exact the same settings too!
8) let the targets dry for at least 24 hours and don’t put anything on the targets so they would not get damaged, don’t bend the targets ever.
9) when the targets are dry - put the targets with sheets of plain copy-paper between each page, then put them in a plastic folder and only then into the envelope, for not getting damaged during transportation.
10) write down the name that you wish this profile should have on a separate plain paper. (We recommend names that tells you easily what printer, settings of the printer, kind of paper was used to print the targets f.ex. “HP130 Ilford classic pearl Best as HP premium plus satin.icc”).
11)
on the same paper write down your email address, where the profile can be send to and info to contact you if needed! The profile is about 2 mb and if you can’t receive such big emails, then we need still to know your email address so we can send you login information to our FTP address for you to download your custom made profile.
12) Send to:
www.printer-profiles.com Box 25041
750 25 Uppsala
Sweden
Printing guide for CMYK and Hexachrome targets:
1) Linearize the printer-ink-paper before printing the targets! Don't bother to print the targets before it is done!
2) open the targets and choose to not color manage the targets. Set the linearization settings\file, ink limits and then print the targets.
3)
write down all the settings you choose for this targets to print! Later for profile to work it must be set with exact the same settings too!
4) let the targets
dry for at least
24 hours and
don’t put anything on the targets so they would not get damaged,
don’t bend the targets
ever.
5) when the targets are dry - put the targets with
sheets of plain copy-paper between each page, then put them in a
plastic folder and only then into the envelope, for not getting damaged during transportation.
6) write down the name that you wish this profile should have on a separate plain paper. (We recommend names that tells you easily what printer, settings of the printer, kind of paper was used to print the targets f.ex. “HP130 Ilford classic pearl Best as HP premium plus satin.icc”).
7)
on the same paper write down your email address, where the profile can be send to and info to contact you if needed! The profile is about 2 mb and if you can’t receive such big emails, then we need still to know your email address so we can send you login information to our FTP address for you to download your custom made profile.
8) Send to:
www.printer-profiles.com Box 25041
750 25 Uppsala
Sweden
