Best Photoshop Color Profile?

You can never trust the values of your monitor. Your monitor can show values outside the color gamut of your printer. What you need is a pantone to process color book. This will allow you to see the spot color pantone and the CMYK process of the spot color right beside it. In many cases the spot color pantone is very different from the process counterpart. These books also show you the CMYK values so you can see what colors are represented in your spot color.

In my experience it is always better to change the spot colors to CMYK yourself rather than let the printer rips to do it. That way you know the exact value of what you are about to print.

Swaggin said:

We've had our Neoflex for about a month, which is putting out awesome things. I have noticed that photographs and some artwork turn out pretty true to what's on screen. The major variations I have seen are on spot colors, like on text, or solid fill shapes. Is there an optimum color profile(sRGB,ColorMatch,Adobe), or do I just need to preview CMYK proof?

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You could also print a gamut on your typical garment which will show you its value, you can then open the gamut image in photoshop next to your artwork and colour pick the desired colour. There is a link to a good gamut file in the DTG forum on here (under Anajet brand I think).

It took me a little bit, but I went into a Pantone chart and and created a circle from every color and made a big chart than printed it on a shirt. So than I will be able to know exactly what color the customer wants. They choose from the shirt not the computer.

this is a good idea. The customer gets to see the actual color of the ink, vs Pantone # XXXX which can be all over the map from monitor, to a proof. We did this with Discharge inks for this very reason.

Do you have a picture of this sample shirt? It sounds like a great idea

Care to share that Pantone file?! Please


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If your with neo family I share with you. I have to make few adjustments first. When I did it I didn't have an oversized platen yet do had to do multiple prints. I'm going to put it on one long design and print out so it would be about 12 x 36

Can't wait to check it out. Been with neo family for years!

I did a similar color chart print on our sublimation plates, which has been a huge help for us, as well as our customers. Thank you guys for all the feedback. I will definitely soak it in.