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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="color#profiles"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="color-why-calibrate"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="color-whatisprofile"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="color-missingvcgt"/>

    <desc>Color profiles are provided by vendors and can be generated yourself.</desc>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Richard Hughes</name>

      <email>richard@hughsie.com</email>

    </credit>

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  <title>Where do I get color profiles?</title>

    The best way to get profiles is to generate them yourself, although

    this does require some initial outlay.

    Many manufacturers do try to provide color profiles for devices,

    although sometimes they are wrapped up in driver bundles

    which you may need to download, extract and then search for the

    color profiles.

    Some manufacturers do not provide accurate profiles for the hardware

    and the profiles are best avoided.

    A good clue is to download the profile, and if the creation date is

    more than a year before the date you bought the device then it’s

    likely dummy data generated that is useless.

    See <link xref="color-why-calibrate"/> for information on why vendor-supplied

    profiles are often worse than useless.

</page>