Booksmart Studio can help in one of three ways; first by providing you with equipment from X-Rite, second by educating you on creating your color managed workflow through either a workshop or consulting and finally by allowing Booksmart Studio to create your custom ICC profiles for you. Whatever you determine our role can be in your digital printing success,  we are ready to support your needs. Booksmart Studio was responsible for creating the generic ICC profiles for these leading paper manufacturers, these are the profiles you download from their websites: Bergger, BF Inkjet Media, Canson Infinity, Innova Art, Magiclée Intelicoat, & Museo Fine Art papers.

ICC profiles are an essential part of any digital workflow and we are here to assist you as one of the industry leaders for supplying fine art paper ICC profiles.
We take great pride in our custom ICC Profile service which is why we have been chosen by several paper manufacturers to provide them with canned profiles. Being among the industry leaders in providing generic ICC Profiles to the end user, it is extremely important to emphasize that these are merely a starting point. For a true and complete digital workflow, one will need custom ICC Profiles to ensure the accuracy of their printer, ink, & substrate combination. Not to mention that each digital and printing workflow that is employed will tend to contain its own little quirks or personalities. At Booksmart Studio we understand this and work with you to tailor the system to your specific needs, instead of trying to change the way you work.

RGB Targets

We offer two different options for creating your custom ICC printer profile. The first utilizes the X-Rite i1 Profiler software with the X-Rite iSis XL spectrophotometer. We are three variations for patch quantity for this combination of hardware and software. The RGB 6000 patch target requires either (6) 8.5″x11″ pages or (3) 11″x17″ pages to be printed. This is our most accurate set of targets for creating your custom printer ICC profile. Yes, it requires more paper, but aren’t you trying to achieve the greatest accuracy in your prints? We also offer a 3,000 & 2,400 patch option for this combination of hardware and software. The iSis XL allows us to achieve a much faster turnaround time on the ICC profiles and is good for paper & canvas substrates.

The second set of hardware and software combination is bets for rigid materials such as; metal, wood, glass that is under 1/4″ thick. We use the Gretag Spectrolino and & X-Rite Profiler software to create these profile. The RGB large target requires (2) 8.5″ X 11″ prints to be completed by the customer on their printer, it has 1728 color patches. The RGB large targets provides a more accurate printer ICC profile than the RGB small targets which utilize only (1) 8.5″ x 11″ and 729 patches.

There are 1728 patches used in this RGB large profiling service you are purchasing. A Gretag Spectrolino/Spectroscan is used for reading in the measurements along and Monaco Profiler is the software that is used to create the profiles. We have tested Gretag Profilemaker and X-Rite(Monaco) Profiler and find that we get better results with the X-Rite(Monaco) Profiler.

If you have any questions please feel free to inquires with us before printing. You can find many tutorials in the right column that should make your life easier.

If you wish to have your profiles created with Gretag Profilemaker we have the ability to utilize that software as well. There is not an extra fee, but you must state on your order form that you wish to have us utilize that software and we will email you a different set of targets.

Users should make RGB profiles if you are submitting RGB files to your printer, i.e. printing through the Canon, Epson, & HP print drivers.

Once we receive your targets our normal turn-around time is 72 hours. Please fill out a contact form submission with any questions.

You can order our custom ICC profiling service at our dedicated domain for profiling at www.customiccprofiling.com