Asked For my Printers Profile By Customer?

[davidh202]

Ok, I am using a profiled monitor and paper profiled color managed workflow and doing great on my Epson 7900.
Today I was asked by a customer if I could supply him with my 'printers profile'. What exactly is the "printers profile"?
Is it necessary for him to have one, and if so how do I go about supplying one for him?

[digitaldog]

Ok, I am using a profiled monitor and paper profiled color managed workflow and doing great on my Epson 7900.
Today I was asked by a customer if I could supply him with my 'printers profile'. What exactly is the "printers profile"?
Is it necessary for him to have one, and if so how do I go about supplying one for him?

Your customer presumably wants the profile to soft proof images he’ll provide to you? Its a reasonable request. The printer profiles is that ICC profile you select in Photoshop’s Print dialog (if you are printing there). I don’t know if the profile you are using is one supplied by Epson in their print driver install or not. Tell us what OS you are on, what profile you are looking for then its easy to provide a path for its location.

[digitaldog]

Is the "printer profile" in fact the one that is specific to the paper he wants me to print on and all I have to do is copy the ICC profile and give it to him so he can install the profile in his ICC profile list, and select it for soft proofing in his application?
Is that all there is to it?

Yes, correct.

[fdisilvestro]

Just two comments:

Make sure your client is using the profile for soft proofing and not converting to that profile. It´s not that you can´t handle a converted image, it is just so you don´t have to modify your workflow

If your client makes adjustments in soft proofing, ask him (her) which rendering intent was used.

[feppe]

If your client makes adjustments in soft proofing, ask him (her) which rendering intent was used.

Given the OP, I doubt the printer would know what to do with the information - or even the difference...

[eronald]

Given the OP, I doubt the printer would know what to do with the information - or even the difference...

Once the customers start bugging him he may choose to learn - after all he is asking the right questions

Edmund