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Question: I have a DTG Kiosk and bought ink from you guys.  I was wondering if you guys have the ICC profile to use for this ink?  I can't seem to get acceptable blues with the various settings I've tried with the profiles built into photoshop or DTG RIP Pro.  If not, any tips on getting blues to print anything resembling what's on the screen instead of something 90% darker on the print?

Answer: The settings in your Photoshop in the color management section should be "Let Printer Handle Colors", and the rendering intent setting should be set to PERCEPTUAL, not Relative Colormetric. Also when sending the image to the printer, first you must select the DTG Kiosk with White ink as the printer to print to, once you select this printer as your intended output device, you will need to go to PAGE SETUP and once in there you would then navigate to PROPERTIES and then ADVANCED. This will open up the Rip settings where we can select the correct interpreters of our image so the RIP software can match what we have on our screen.

In the Printer Features section of these advanced settings, you will find the Source Profiles for RGB images as well as CMYK images, it is important that you select the correct interpreters here so the Rip can accurately decipher the correct language of our postscript code to closely match the colors and resolutions of our image. The correct source profile for RGB images should be set to NTSC 1953, and not the defaulted value of Rip-Default, and the correct interpreter for all CMYK images is NONE.

Make sure these are set and the settings in Adobe Photoshop for color handling are set as well as the printer is selected to handle color and not the software. I hope this information is understandable and helps to get your blues to work more closely to what your intended color is. Also one other thing make sure that in the printer features of the advanced settings, that you have photo normal selected instead of Vivid Darker. Choosing Vivid Darker will saturate more color into your image instead of normal ink output. This setting "Vivid Darker" is only intended for printing on terry or thicker substrates where more ink saturation is required.