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Lyson Installing ICC Colour Profiles

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Installing Printer Profiles


The following ICC Profile downloads also contain a PDF document with full instructions for profile installation and use within your PC set-up.

How to Install a custom Profile:

An ICC Colour profile can be looked upon as a corrective file for any device that handles colour, in the case of printers a profile is used to obtain accurate colours at the point of output. It would be a fair question, particularly for the new user why printers can’t translate the output from the computer into accurate colours on the paper, the reason for this is that are printers are slightly different, each one suffers from manufacturing torrance which effect the colour biases, this is compounded when using Lyson inks because of the expended colour range that these inks can produce, the printer needs to be informed how to handle these extra colours.

ICC Profiles are easy to use and install, and when it comes down to it the Profile is nothing more than a text file.

Installation for PC Users:
Location to place the file.

Windows XP / 2000 :
My Computer > C > Windows > System32 > Spool > Drivers > Color

Windows 98 :
My Computer > C > Windows > System > Color

Mac Users
Location to place file

OSX ( 10+ ):
MacHD > Users > Home Folder > Library > Color Sync > Profiles

Mac OS9 :
MacHD > System > Colorsync