Professional Results for Professional Photographers

If you are a professional photographer you know that digital photography has opened up enormous opportunities for you. Digital allows you to offer your customers more products than ever before including prints on canvas, press printed products, and sublimation products. As you take advantage of these opportunities, you need to know that all the products you offer will be produced with the highest quality and the best color.

ezprints offers premium products with easy to use tools so that you can take advantage of every opportunity.

We believe strongly in our quality and we back it up with an unconditional guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied with your order for any reason, just let us know within 30 days of receipt and we will do what we can to make it right.

Premium Products

We use quality materials and pre-inspect materials before we use them. We offer these products which are especially suited for the professional photographer.

• Professional Paper: We use Kodak Endura Professional Paper for our Lustre and Metallic prints . These papers offer a slightly enhanced color gamut for rich colors and exceptional, smooth flesh-tone reproduction. View sizes and prices.

• Gallery Wrapped Canvas: Our canvas is finished with a waterproof coating and stretched on 1 3/8” gallery bars. It arrives ready to hang right out of the box. View sizes and prices.

• Fine Art Prints: We use premium paper and excellent ink with a true matte black for our fine prints. These are then mounted onto hardboard and framed with a unique standout frame that does not cover the edges of the print. View sizes and prices.

• Framed Canvas: Our unique framed canvas that is front loaded into the frame to create a beautiful display. View sizes and prices.

• Digital Press Products: Press products ordered through ezprints.com are printed without branding – your customers will not see our branding on thank you cards, address labels, or calendars. View card sizes and prices.

True Color Management

We match color across printers and substrates. We do this by calibrating our printers to a single color target daily and balance our printers hourly to keep consistent color. This means you can order an 8x10, a canvas, a folded card, and a mug without worrying about color matching. This also means that you will get consistent color over time – Artists can print as you receive orders – the prints you order a year from now will match the prints you order today.

You can get the best results by downloading our ICC Profile and using it to soft proof and adjust your images prior to ordering.

Premium Packaging

Our packaging is designed to protect your products and get them to you quickly.

• Flats are packaged with chipboard to help protect your print corner
• Rolled prints are put in a sleeve so that you can easily remove them from the tube
• Canvas and Fine Art prints are packaged with 3 layers of protection to keep your prints safe

Professional Equipment

Professional quality requires state of the art equipment. We employ the highest quality printers that produce the best results. We use the latest commercial grade professional printers from Durst, Noritsu, HP, and Epson to consistently produce high quality products.

ICC Profile

An ICC (International Color Consortium) Profile is standardized file format created by special computer software. An ICC Profile creates a common color space used for color management in printing workflow. ICC Profiles are often used when it is necessary to compensate for color differences between dispirit devices like scanners, digital cameras, computer monitors, ink systems printers, and/or printing presses.

To maximize the accuracy between what you see on the screen and what comes off of our printers, you will want to download our ICC profile and use it to soft proof your images.

We have one ICC profile that allows you to soft proof for both regular and large format sizes.

Download ICC profile file

To install an ICC profile in Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP:
Download the profile to your computer by right-clicking and selecting "Save Target As". Once the file is has finished downloading, right-click it. A menu will pop up. Choose the "Install Profile" option. If the "Uninstall Profile" menu item appears, you already have an ICC profile of the same name installed.

To install an ICC Profile on a Mac with OS X:
Copy the ICC profile file to one of the following two locations:

• Users/[your login user name]/Library/ColorSync/Profiles or...
• Library/ColorSync/Profiles. Note: To install to this location, you must have administrative privileges.

To install ICC profiles onto a Mac with OS 8.x or 9.x:
Download the profile to your computer. Copy the ICC profile files to the ColorSync Profiles folder located in the System folder.

Soft Proofing

Soft proofing is a method that allows you to preview how a final printed photograph or piece of artwork will look when it has been printed by a particular printer. It simulates the colors of the final print using your computer and an ICC profile, extrapolating the final color from the starting color of the image and the profile applied.

If your monitor is properly calibrated, you will be able to use the ICC profile downloaded from our site to see what your prints will look like on our printers. The prints should be identical, regardless of what size print you choose to order.

To do a soft proof in Adobe Photoshop, follow these simple instructions:

1. Make sure you have the profiles installed. If you did the installation while Photoshop was running, please exit and reopen Photoshop.
2. Make sure that you are working in the sRGB workspace in Photoshop. Our printers make color adjustments based on the assumption that your file is sRGB (the standard color space for most digital cameras). To set sRGB as your workspace, go to Edit > Color Settings and select sRGB from the dropdown menu next to RGB. If your image is CMYK, you will need to convert it to RGB. We require that the files uploaded to us be RGB.
3. When you are ready to see what your image will look like when it's printed, go to View > Proof Setup > Custom... A dialog box will pop up. On the Profile dropdown, select either ezprints2008.icc or from the list. Make sure the Preserve Color Numbers checkbox is NOT selected and click the Preview checkbox if you would like to preview the proofing. Select OK to make adjustments to the photo while the soft proofing is enabled.
4. To turn off the proof, go to View > View Proofs and uncheck it. This will return your view to the native sRGB.

Examples:
The images below show you what a photograph looks like in the original sRGB and with soft proofing turned on for both of our printers. The difference should be most noticeable when your image has a lot of colors that are not easily reproducible on paper with a printer.