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Free ICC Profiles for Lyson and MediaStreet Ink

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Beginners to digital photography and printing are often a little confused why a separate ICC profile is required with 3rd party inks. The common misconception is that it covers up some inadequacy, which of course is not true. A printer requires ICC information no matter which inkset is used. This also applies to OEM inks, but the printer manufacturer is able to build the profile into the printer driver, so it appears that no profile is required when in fact one is. Third party inks have a slightly different colour space, therefore a different profile is required. Whilst we always recommend custom profile for best results, the free generic profiles below are suitable for amateur photographers.

Free Lyson ICC Profiles

Driver Settings for Epson R2400 & R1800

To get accurate results from your printer it’s very important that in addition to the profile supplied, the correct print settings are used. Below are the correct settings that should be used in conjunction with the generic profiles by Lyson. For all other printers you should consult the instructions that accompany the profiles.

Epson R2400
The Lyson R2400 ink set comes complete with a full complement of ICC colour profiles covering most of the commonly used papers, and detailed instruction on basic and advanced colour management issues appertaining to the R2400 printer.
Lyson Photochrome R24 Profiles covering various paper types. Detailed documention, Settings, and information releating to colour management on the R2400 (20 mb)

Epson R1800 - R800
IN PRINT WITH PREVIEW:
Intent: Perceptual
Use Black point compensation: Ticked

IN PRINT DRIVER:
Media type: Premium semi gloss Photo Paper
Best Photo
High Speed: On
Gloss Optimisation: on
No colour adjustment

Free MediaStreet ICC Profiles

Please note: These profiles only work with MediaStreet inks.

Please use the section boxes below to choose the correct profile for your inks. Upon completion the data is sent directly to Media Street, if a profile exsists you will be contacted by email.

E-mail address
Select your printer model:
Other Printer (if not listed):
Select your paper:
Other Paper (if not listed):
Select your printer ink:
  Other Printer Ink (if not listed):
Order Number:
You need to enter your invoice number from your order with Specialist Inks, only customers that have purchased Media Street inks directly from us can request free profiles.
Please note: For the profile to work you must be using Media Street inks, while this profile will greatly improve the colour reproduction and produce prints to a professional standard using this profile in conjunction with any other brand of ink will result in your prints being inaccurate.

If Media Street have no profile in their extensive libraray please follow the directions below:

Below in the FILE ATTACHMENTS section are the 2 print target that are needed to be printed in order for Media Street to create the Profiles for you. Right click on the link and hit "Save Target As".

When you open the files in Photoshop, please do not convert the images to your working space, please leave as is.

Prior to printing, can you run a Nozzle Check and an Alignment Utility to make sure your print heads are firing perfectly.

Before we get started creating the test prints make sure your colour space is correct:

Please make sure the Colour settings are set with Adobe RGB 1998. This is in the Edit: colour settings: Settings: Custom: Working Space:Adobe RGB 1998
CMYK: US web Coated (SWOP) v2
Gray: Dot Gain 20%
Spot: Dot Gain 20%

Watch a movie on setting up for a test print >>

The target files are "landscape" please make sure to print in landscape and on 8.5" x 11" paper.

In the Print Dialogue Box:

Source Space = Document
Print Space = Same as Source

When you Print, please use the following in your Epson Print Driver:
Media Type = "Premium Gloss Photo Paper"
2880 dpi (Or Photo RPM)(if you choose to use 1440 dpi, please make sure to let us know)
Microweave or Edge Smoothing ON, Hi-speed OFF

**For R800/R1800/R2400 Users who want to use a Matte Paper you must select the following: This triggers the use of the Matte Black in the printer versus the Photo Black. For the R2400, if you are using the Matte Black cartridge.

Media Type = "Matte Paper Heavyweight"
Best Photo
Edge Smoothing ON, Hi-speed OFF

In CUSTOM setup: Turn color management to OFF or in some printers you have to select ICM and then "No Color Adjustment" needs to be checked.

Then, please mail targets to me:
Please remember to tell us what printer you are using, ink version and paper(s) you are enclosing. Please also enclose a Nozzle Check Pattern.

Media Street, Inc
44 W Jefryn Blvd, Unit Y
Deer Park, NY 11729
USA

TC9[1].18 RGB i1 1_2.tif  ( Test Print 1 )
TC9[1].18 RGB i1 2_2.tif  ( Test Print 2 )