Suggestions for using a Colormunki to make a custom paper profile

• Name your profile based on the paper type & weight
• Print a target image first. This is an image (like the Chakita banana looking woman that has lots of colors in it and you know what it should look like.)
• Save and reuse your final settings for subsequent prints

When printing, Turn off in Photoshop:

• Shaping
• Color manage
• High speed etc…

Use your custom color profile to softproof the image:

Print test profile

• Let your test profile dry 10 min before evaluating the colors. (Or if you are in a rush you can dry it with a hairdrier.) Colors in a print may change slightly when they dry.
• Scan the printed testing color pages using colormonki

In printing your photo

• Turn off color manage
• Turn on “Paper simulate”
• Turn on “Simulate black ink”
• In print turn on the same settings you used to make profile
• Evaluate how close your photo is and make adjustments.
  • Don NOT evaluate your prints in direct sunlight.
    
  • (I did this once and they was SO dark once framed that you could barely see them under even track lighting!)
• Get a nice color neutral or “natural light” light like Graphiclite.com.
  
  • Remember regular household light bulbs create a yellow orange cast in picture, so what do you think they will do to a print?