The North American sheetfed standard. A wider gamut than SWOP for premium coated work.
| File name | GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc |
|---|---|
| Standard | GRACoL 2006, ISO 12647-2 based |
| Paper | Premium coated, grade 1, sheetfed offset |
| Region | North America |
| Issued by | IDEAlliance |
| Total ink limit | 340% |
| In Print.App | CMYK-coated-gracol2006 |
We link to the issuing body rather than mirroring the file. Colour profiles are licensed works, and the official source is also the only place guaranteed to carry the current revision. Specifications below are as published by IDEAlliance; confirm them against the source before committing a production run.
GRACoL 2006 describes North American sheetfed offset on premium grade 1 coated stock, and it is the profile most commercial print in the US and Canada should actually be separated for. It is less commonly selected than SWOP purely because SWOP is Adobe’s default and this one has to be chosen deliberately.
SWOP v2 describes publication web offset: fast presses, lighter stock, 300% ink limit. GRACoL describes sheetfed on good paper, and its 340% ink limit buys you a noticeably deeper, more neutral shadow range along with a larger overall gamut.
If your job is a brochure, a business card, packaging, or anything else running sheetfed on decent coated stock, separating for SWOP is leaving gamut on the table for no reason other than that it was already selected in the dropdown.
The practical test is simple: ask what press and what paper. Web and publication stock means SWOP. Sheetfed and premium coated means GRACoL.
GRACoL2006_Coated1v2 reads like version 2 of GRACoL 2006, which it is not. “Coated1”
is the paper grade, and “v2” is the revision of that profile. There are newer GRACoL
characterisations (GRACoL 2013 and later, based on CRPC data sets), but the 2006 profile
remains the one most widely installed and most often requested.
Assign it per design template rather than across the store, so your sheetfed products convert through GRACoL while anything on web or uncoated stock uses its own profile. Print.App applies the assigned profile at PDF render time, and customers soft proof the result in the browser before they order.
Print.App ships this profile built in, as CMYK-coated-gracol2006. You assign it
per design template in the designer, and every print file rendered from that template
converts RGB to CMYK through it automatically. Nobody has to remember to do it, and
your customers never see a colour setting.
The same profile drives soft proofing in the browser, so the customer approves the converted result before ordering rather than discovering it on the proof. There are 27 profiles built in, covering the ISO Coated, PSO, GRACoL, SWOP, FOGRA and Japan Color families.
Print.App applies the right profile automatically at PDF render time, per design template, and soft proofs the conversion in the browser so your customers see the CMYK result before they order. Usage-based pricing, free monthly quota, no per-order fee.