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Many people that prints at home are afraid to use generic paper and generic inks because the output will be different on what they see on the monitor. Custom ICC profiles is a mix of the printer's characteristic, the ink's characteristic and the paper's characteristics. The only way to make profit at home selling pictures is using a good quality generic paper and good quality generic ink along with a custom ICC profile for that combination. If you change any variable in the formula, then you need to re-do the ICC profile. If you use 5 different papers in two different printers, then you need 10 differents profile loaded in your computer even if the two printers are the same models. I'm an Epson certified large format printer technician, and when I fix one printer on a large customer that use same models, I have to calibrate the printer with the colorimeter to be sure the customer will have printing consistency between printers. I have a continuous ink system installed and I'm using Costco Kirkland Pro photo paper in my Epson Artisan 1430 printer getting excellent results using Datacolor Elite printer/monitor calibrator. If you wants to drop down your printing cost, drop me a note and I can help you moving to the generic world and also making your custom ICC profiles without buying the $600.00 colorimeter. Hope this info help someone.

With Qimage you can customize your prints size. It is a RIP software that can print using your custom ICC.

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/

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