 Hi. Welcome to BCH Technologies. This is Kevin. Today, we're going to talk about how to correct color without ICC. We don't normally provide ICC profile for our inks. Here are the reasons. First of all, ICC profile is dependent on the type of printer and that depend on each ink settings and each media. For example, if you print with glossy paper, it will depend on what brand of glossy paper you're using. You'll use Kodak. You'll use Fuji. Or you'll use a generic paper you bought from market. And if you use a plan paper, whether the plan paper is 97 brand names or 92 brand names, so all of those changes, every single one, you need the ICC profile. And secondly, it's not all the problem caused by the ICC. For example, when we print a photo for our beloved print leader, and actually, this one is our leader. And so you can see our leader get lines across the face. That's a big disgrace. And that's not caused by ICC. So lots of people, when they buy ink, and they haven't unclog their printer yet, and they get all sorts of questions, but their first reaction is, hey, can you send me an ICC profile? Oh, we can't. So we have to ask you, where do you get your ink? Are you print on glossy paper? What brand of glossy paper it is? And what's your setting? Are you setting at a photo setting, or are you want to print that as a text and photo combination setting? OK. So basically, we eventually were going to provide some generic ICC profiles. But however, we made our ink really close to the regular Epson ICC. So we can just use the Epson ICC. And so what's the purpose of making another ICC that's generic? So we do make a customized ICC, which you can order online. And each ICC is going to cost about $59. However, there's always a debate. There's always politics. There's always a rebate for the ICC that you're making. So we're going to have another radio cover how to make ICC and cover what's the importance of ICC when you want to have a customized ICC. So basically, today's question is, we have a picture of our beloved Supreme leaders. And there's our leader right now. And there's our leader in the future. So they look weird. We unclog it. So we can see even a single hair on their head. However, this guy look orange. And this guy look yellow. So what are we going to do about it? Each of your print, with this printer, there are two levels of color management. The bottom level is the printer. By default, printer going to pick a color management profile. And this profile is installed on your computer. And then on top of the printer, there's a software. So if you have a software saying, I'm going to use this color profile to print this picture, the printer will not use a lower level ICC profile. It will use the softwares. However, if you have a software didn't say anything, the printer is going to pick its own default ICC profile. If you do not have an ICC profile by default, you're going to print without any color management. OK, let's play with the color management at lower level first. So we went to device and printers. And let me show you the system level first. So we right-click and set printer properties. If we click color management, this is not only for this printer. Although we got here from a particular printer, this color management is for the whole computer. OK, let's say we're on display one, which is this monitor. Actually, this monitor has its own color management. The color management is how a device is going to interpret the color from the file. I actually calibrate this monitor. So what you see here is exactly color from the file. So it's 100% accurate color. So for those of you at home who didn't calibrate your monitor, you need a special device to calibrate it. So what you see actually is pretty much right now, pretty much you are seeing a different color than what color in the file. So let's see. We're going to see the color management for the apps in 1430. OK. And you can see we're not forcing the printer using this one. So the printer will pick anyone from here as the printer still fits. So you can see it's automatic. Or I can tell the printer, OK, I'm still at the lower level. We can still tell the printer, I'm going to use this guy, which is made by Epson. So if I close and save this, this printer will use this standard as default, OK? So now you understand how the printer got to follow value also, OK? If I'm crazy enough, I can pick a printer. I'm not going to use this printer much, OK? So you can see this printer doesn't have its default color management. Most of those HP OfficeJet, because it's printed text messages, text files, I don't really have a default color management. OK, with that default color management understood, now we're going to show you how to turn on and turn off the color management on each printer. So we select 1430. Instead of going to printer properties, we're going to print preferences. And as I said, it is managed by each of the settings. For example, we're going to use the photo, OK? And what we do is we go to advanced. You can say color control. When you say color control, which is the printer going to help you pick the color management, OK? And the printer will go to the default SAC profile, which we said earlier. However, we can go to SEM, OK? This SEM, so you can pick your own SEM. Or we can turn it off. So if we turn it off, the printer will either listen to the software or just do not use SEM at all. So let's say we turn this off, OK? And now let me show you a couple other printers that we can turn off. Really, let's pick another SEM. Remember, we're going to print preferences. This one, I didn't actually install the whole driver. So let's say we let's pick a different brand. Let's pick a Canon. This same thing, we go to print preferences. And we'll go to photo printing. And here, we're going to see the color. And then we'll do a menu. And then matching. So the driver matching, which is what we did earlier. Or we can do a SEM if we have the SAC profile. If we select none, say OK. And we turn this off. Let's go around and turn off color management at lower level for everybody, just for fun. So remember, this guy doesn't have, OK, how about we try a PhotoSmart? Print preferences. And we don't want the printer to fix anything for us. And here is color management. And we're going to select application-managed colors. So what we're going to do is we print from our application. And from our application, we set the do not use SAC. And that will do it. OK, here's how to turn off and turn on the color management for Epson, HP, and Canon. So let me show you. We already turned off the color management for the printer. So we need a software, like a Photoshop, or something can print with, I can select the SAC profile, when it's printing. If you can, that's fine. So we go to print. You can see the print is not something that you're going to jump out the window. And they look pretty nice. This is using the standard SAC. But when you compare to the glossy SAC, you're going to see a difference. So it's a lot warmer here. And there's a lot colder here. So what's the correct color and how I adjust it? This video we're going to adjust it without the SAC profile. We'll need a standard color testing picture like this. So what's beauty about this is that this is the standard gray. So the first thing we do is we can correct our color if this picture is off. So we go to adjustment, image adjustment curves. So pick the gray and pick that dropper and click on it. And it's OK. Now this color is perfect color. So let's print this without SAC first. So we go print, the printer settings. Now I'm adjusting the lower level. Then I'm going to do photo glossy paper, enter size, SAC off. And then we let the printer manage color. So nobody is managing right now. So the Photoshop tell the printer you'll manage it. And the printer said, you've got to turn me off. I'm not going to manage it. So let's print it. So over girl look pretty nice. And here you can see as for most home users, there's no reason you ask for SAC. The BCH ink is pretty close to, pretty close to, I mean, I don't say perfect, pretty close to Epson. However, if you're professionals, you're going to start seeing problems. OK, I must say it's not that the BCH ink sucks. It's because even you use original Epson. And at this level, you'll get probably the same result. Because it's highly depend on your batch of ink. And that depends on the individual ink. Whatever Epson give to you is also generic. So if you want to customize the ink, you have to do your own SAC. Now I put an extra color check on. And you can see the blue is off. And the brown is a little bit off. And you can start seeing the things about the green. OK. And the result, OK, let me show you how to read this. You're supposed to see a continuous ingredients, continuous down. If you see it's really zig-zag, and that means there's a color mixing problem. And you can see another thing is whether the skin color is continuous and healthy. And you also look at the hair, whether it's vibrant. OK. And here, what you see is this is a mixture of the ink. It's not printed by the black ink. This is a mixture of all the color inks. So you're supposed to see a continuous gradients down. And here, you can see a little bit of magenta. So this part here, this ink has problem. And also, this part has a little bit of problem here. OK. I just tear my own ink apart. So let's say this is no management. OK. Let's print one with correct Epson SCC. As I said, the problem with SCC with Epson is they have to face the same problem we have, which is we're going to use different kind of glossy photos. So for example, this one we bought on sale for, I don't remember, it's really cheap. It's Kodak paper. So Epson has to make a generic SCC too. So therefore, their ink is not going to perform any better than our ink, I think, at general. So we go to print. And this time, we're going to manage the colors. Remember, double check that the printer is not messing up anything. Photo paper doesn't fix anything. SCC off. OK. The printer is good. And here, we're going to see the Epson gave you like ultra premium, those Epson stocks. We're going to use a photo paper glossy, not a premium glossy. On the right is the one that we use, we use the correct SCC. Let's do analysis. So this is the BCH ink with Epson SCC, because we target over ink exactly to Epson SCC. So when you use Epson SCC, it looks much better. So there's no management. And you still can see the ingredients, but this is not caused by the SCC. This is caused by the ink and the printer's ability itself. But you can see here, it's much black and white, more like a real gray than this. This is a magenta, OK? And check the life in gradients and check the white. Overall, this is true black, OK? So the black look good. And see the two color patterns. And here, you're going to see a big difference when you manage the color, OK? So let me show you the correct color. This monitor is calibrated. So the correct color is this, OK? See the incorrect color? OK, and also this thing is not as continuous as this guy, as this, OK? So it's grow pretty big. So I told you about the hair. And this look like really dull hair. And the skin tone. And the automated check is color. Let me put the two color together and show you the improvement. See the blue? So most of this SACC correction is on the blue. And let's see the. OK, just without anything, we just use the absence SACC and use a BCH ink. And there's a significant improvement. However, how can I compare to the original? There's no way you can compare or you can get exactly match as your monitor, because your monitor is a different color system. And however, what I want is, so now we're talking outside the SACC now, OK? We know we can use this SACC. The difference is more like a person preferences. I'm trying to, OK. When it's far away, it's better. So what I want is, I feel the original is a little bit warm. So the original is more like a bit towards the magenta side. OK, this is at your home. You cannot find the best SACC you want. So what you want is you want to print out a little bit warmer. OK, let's try this. Let's go to Image, Adjustment, Color Balance. And now we want more towards red. So first one, for the magenta, I added 20%. Maybe we add 20% too much, 10%. And for the yellow, I decreased 10%. Now I go print. And still, we turn out with the same thing. We use photo for glossy. We turn off the SACC management at lower level. And because we really like this SACC profile, which are going to print this. Probably don't see too much difference. So this is the both of it, the SACC. But this one, I got a color toned a little bit. And still everything else is, I mean, it's pretty cool. I just said this gets a little bit warmer than this. So what I did is let's pick them magenta. So we feel this magenta wasn't spot on. So we change a little bit here. I think the magenta is better matching now. And the thing is the yellow. OK, I think the original is more like spot on. But the yellow we made now, we decreased it. So the yellow is not good. So we're going to change the yellow back to zero. But we're going to keep the magenta. Now it's the moment of truth. Let's do some street tests. Part of those three pictures, which one you like better? Out of the pigments? Is that what you're asking me, or? Those are three pictures. Which picture I think is more like a vibrance, like an accurate? It would be this one, I would say. Wow. In my wrong? OK, no, no, you're right. I mean, this one is more colored. I mean, I see the depths of the color, but it's more tenting. And this one looks like it's more vibrant and bright and stands out like a professional shot. You're right. OK, OK, so how about this? Have to be this one. I like the standard one. The standard one? But that's just me. I don't know. OK. Oh, I see the gloss now. Now I see the gloss. So, yeah, with this one, it brightens it. It's just the standard one. So this one is more color. Yeah, that's more color. And this one is the like standing out brightness of it. So yeah, it's totally a personal preference. Yeah, they're both pretty good. Yes, they're both pretty good. I mean, I mean, if you want the gloss, that's what you want. That's like a professional photograph here. This is more of a printout. So all of those two supreme leaders, which one you like better? That one. Oh, you like Kim Jong? Yes, I do. OK, I'll be in touch. Yeah. OK, thank you.