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Anyone know of a way to print photos from an iPhone or iPad using ICC color print profiles?
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E.g., the Affinity suite or Procreate come with various ICC profiles you can assign to a document, embedded in an image export; or you can add ICC profiles for examples to the profiles folder of Procreate and then use them.
The profile is embedded in your photo/image/project and will be send to the printer.
What exactly do you want to achieve?
The profile is embedded in your photo/image/project and will be send to the printer.
What exactly do you want to achieve?
Thanks. I'm looking to allow my family to print from iPad/iPhone to a photo printer that will require use of a custom ICC profile for color correction, due to different inks or papers. I did see Procreate had some use of ICC profiles, and wondered about that option; however, definitely not a streamlined solution. I'm not familiar with Affinity suite and will have a look. Epson's Print Layout app does this; however, it only works with a few printers.
Ricoh and Brother will use the image embedded ICC profile as long as you do not overwrite this hardware side (e.g., I use the ICC profile of our RICOH office printers in Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher to output to the specific Printer).
iOS/iPadOS does not have a system-wide color calibration so far AFAIK, so assigning one via a printer app might be result in hit&miss depending what profile is used in the photo/image in the first place. For an easy unconstrained full streamlined color calibrated work flow you currently should probably switch to a desktop OS.
Thanks for your help. I don't think we are talking about the same use of profile. This is a printing profile, not a screen profile. Printer profiles for inks and papers and those combinations are not embedded in an image, rather applied through software or the printer itself with built in profiles by selecting the paper type. However printer mfg's only include profiles for their inks and their papers. When software supports use of a profile, it isn't hit and miss, but uses the imported profile.
Sorry, but what do you want to achieve? Your installed print software/printer driver comes possibly with (an) ICC profile(s). Often these are selected not directly by ICC profile but via some proxy-parameter combo like “photo paper glossy” + resolution + some color space indicator… the ease of AirPrint. 🤓
You prefer to select a specific profile “by name” and not use the proxy-settings and look for a way to do so?
Or do you want to use some other ICC print profile outside the one(s) the printer software provided or within the printer itself?
Outside AirPrint, the printer software provided by its manufacturer might offer additional specific options on iOS/iPadOS. But it seems that e.g., Epson does not think that many people will print from iPadOS on a Stylus 9800 Pro using Premium Glossy 250 Paper Driver, Photo Black Ink Only with the separate Pro9800 7800 Traditional Photo Paper_PK ICC profile they provide 🥹😁 - the more differentiated options seems to be available on desktop OS.
nota bene: »hit&miss« referred to the potentially missing preview rendering for the ICC print profile you select for image developed or corrected whatever color space on iPadOS.
You prefer to select a specific profile “by name” and not use the proxy-settings and look for a way to do so?
Or do you want to use some other ICC print profile outside the one(s) the printer software provided or within the printer itself?
Outside AirPrint, the printer software provided by its manufacturer might offer additional specific options on iOS/iPadOS. But it seems that e.g., Epson does not think that many people will print from iPadOS on a Stylus 9800 Pro using Premium Glossy 250 Paper Driver, Photo Black Ink Only with the separate Pro9800 7800 Traditional Photo Paper_PK ICC profile they provide 🥹😁 - the more differentiated options seems to be available on desktop OS.
nota bene: »hit&miss« referred to the potentially missing preview rendering for the ICC print profile you select for image developed or corrected whatever color space on iPadOS.
Thanks. I was trying to find a way to print to my P800 from iOS devices using 3rd party paper and ink, for which there aren't printer based profiles. My family needs simple solutions and ability to print from their devices. There is an issue with some epson printers, where color management gets screwed up by AirPrint, and the workaround is to disable airprint.
Unfortunately, resurrecting my P800 became too costly, although it is an amazing printer. I'm replacing it with an ET-8500, which can use ICC Profiles from the Epson Print Layout app.
Thanks for trying to help.