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id="color-gettingprofiles">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="color#profiles"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="color-why-calibrate"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="color-whatisprofile"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="color-missingvcgt"/>
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<desc>Color profiles are provided by vendors and can be generated yourself.</desc>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Richard Hughes</name>
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<email>richard@hughsie.com</email>
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</credit>
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</info>
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<title>Where do I get color profiles?</title>
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The best way to get profiles is to generate them yourself, although
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this does require some initial outlay.
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Many manufacturers do try to provide color profiles for devices,
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although sometimes they are wrapped up in driver bundles
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which you may need to download, extract and then search for the
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color profiles.
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Some manufacturers do not provide accurate profiles for the hardware
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and the profiles are best avoided.
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A good clue is to download the profile, and if the creation date is
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more than a year before the date you bought the device then it’s
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likely dummy data generated that is useless.
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See <link xref="color-why-calibrate"/> for information on why vendor-supplied
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profiles are often worse than useless.
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</page>
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