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Using custom ICC profiles
NOTE: Xerox does not guarantee that making and using a
custom profile will produce any improvement in color accuracy,
relative to the default sRGB profile that is supplied with the
product. This procedure describes the recommended steps and
documents known issues and caveats that should be observed
when using custom profiles.
If using custom ICC profiles, it is recommended that you:
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Obtain suitable software and hardware packages for building
custom profiles. These should include an ICC profile building
software product, and possibly a spectrophotometer for
measuring the true colors on test patterns to be used for
generating profiles.
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Obtain a suitable test pattern(s) for producing an ICC profile.
These should have a broad range of color and natural
swatches that is an IT-8 pattern. The test pattern must have
been produced via the same printing technology for which
you want to profile the scanner’s response that is on the
same physical printer.
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If the test pattern is not accompanied by a table of
measurement of the color of each swatch, the swatches need
to be measured using the spectrophotometer, and the
measurements should be stored in a file format compatible
with the ICC profile builder.
