Use with all SemiGloss papers (Hahnemuhle Pearl, etc: Use with all HighGloss papers (Epson Ultra Premium Glossy, etc): These ICCs will attempt to match your screen contrast in the print instead of the opposite (piezography way) where you soft-proof your screen to match the print’s linear environment. You’ll want to go back and turn soft-proofing off and just make the image look good onscreen. If you are printing an image that you’ve already worked on for the “linear” approach it won’t work. Every other part of the workflow is the same, choose the same curve(s), etc.

These profiles will work either with rendering intent set to “perceptual” or “relative colorimetric with bpc”. After installing them into >Library>ColorSync>Profiles you can use “Application Manages Color” at print-time and select the profile. If you want the quick and easy way (you may lose a tiny bit of shadow detail) and want to print from photoshop or lightroom and you DON’T want to soft-proof and fiddle with your images you can use these ICC profiles below. This will result in linear tonality that will most-likely print flatter than one’s contrasty screen unless you soft-proof properly in Photoshop. The normal approach is the print from Print Tool set to “No Color Management”. After some effort and work, everyone is satisfied and they see the wisdom and the reason for such highly sensitive shadow rendering and controls even though it means a bit more imaging work.īUT, there is always the alternative approach and this is to print with an ICC in combo with your normal Piezography curves that everyone is used to. Many people email me privately and publicly about how Piezography “does not match my screen” and then I have to patiently walk them through the linear workflow and how to soft-proof one’s print to make the screen match the high-fidelity linear “scientific” printing process of Piezography.

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