I Can, Check It or Pro Can?
When ordering prints from ProCenter you choose between three different services, I Can, Check It and Pro Can, depending on how much help you need.
I Can – maximum control, best price
With our I Can service, you are the one preparing the image, all the way, including size, resolution, colour adjusting and ICC profiles. With I Can, you get the best price and the fastest deliveries – and at the same time maximum control.
I Can is for those who have the knowledge and the equipment for calibrated image work.
For I Can, the image files you send us most meet the following:
- TIFF or JPEG
- 8-bit RGB, even for b/w
- correct ProCenter ICC profile applied (depending on paper quality and size)
- saved in the correct size and resolution
- resolution, 9×13-30×45 cm: 300 dpi
- resolution, larger than 30×45 cm: 254 dpi
- no extra layers, channels or paths
- no LZW compression
Check It – we make the final control and adjust the image to our printers
With the Check It service, your original is colour adjusted and resized, but not optimised for our printers. So we check that everything is ok and then apply our ICC profiles.
Check It is meant for professionals who want us to assume final responsibility for the appearence of the image – or for those occasions when originals are prepared by a third party, such as a photographer or agency.
Remember that:
- the original must be big enough for the requested printed size (see Image / File sizes)
- the images have to have some kind of colour profile embedded – or else we can’t know what the image is supposed to look like
- the proportions between height and width must be the same as the reqested print size – or, if not, to tell us whether to add white margins (fit in) or to crop the image (fill in)
Pro Can – we assume the entire responsibility for the appearence of the picture
With the Pro Can service you leave all the technical image work to us. We then set the levels, the colours and the contrast, using Photoshop.
With Pro Can it’s often a good idea to leave us a reference print, or written instructions about what you expect, in particular if you want a print that is out of the ordinary, for instance heavily over- och underexposed.