ICC Profiles

Colour management

Saal Digital works with ICC-compatible colour management. No changes or unwished optimization will be done to your files.In this way, the images will be printed exactly the way you want. Here you can find more informations.

In order to achieve the best printing result, we recommend calibrating your monitor.

Colour management set-up

Please make sure that there is enough light in the room. The brightness and colour temperature should be kept constant and reproducible if possible. Ideally, it should be a glare-free and shuttered room, not affected by the changing daylight.

Monitor set-up

• Brightness: 90 - 120 cd/qm
• Colour temperature: 5,000 Kelvin (D50)
• Gamma value: 2.2

The monitor must be calibrated in order to display the right colours and brightness.

Monitor calibration with colourimeter

High-level professional colour management is not possible without the right hardware. Depending on the choice of provider and budget, there are plenty of options available. Some providers offer a colour measurement device with additional software with which you can create an ICC profile of your monitor. Such a device can be a good alternative to a new and expensive monitor.

Advantages of colour management

Print previews are optimised with the help of your preset monitor and our colour management — “What you see is what you get”. Ideally, this combination works so well that you will notice almost no difference between the display on the monitor and the actual photo product.

What can Saal Digital do for you?

Through repeated daily calibration, we assure that the profiled machines work within a small tolerance. The condition of the photochemical process will be checked daily in order to compensate for fluctuations before the photo quality is affected.