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 information.

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 colorimeter

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

Advantages of color management

Print previews are optimized with the help of your preset monitor and our color 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?

We ensure that the profiled machines work within a small tolerance by making repeated calibrations every day. The condition of the photochemical process is checked daily in order to compensate for fluctuations before the quality of the photos is affected.