The Japanese offset standard for uncoated stock. Pairs with Japan Color 2001 Coated.
| File name | JapanColor2001Uncoated.icc |
|---|---|
| Standard | Japan Color 2001 |
| Paper | Uncoated offset stock |
| Region | Japan |
| Issued by | Japan Color, distributed by Adobe |
| In Print.App | CMYK-japan-2001-uncoated |
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 Japan Color, distributed by Adobe; confirm them against the source before committing a production run.
The uncoated counterpart to Japan Color 2001 Coated, describing Japanese offset printing on uncoated stock. Like the rest of the Japan Color set, it is distributed with Adobe applications rather than from a public standards download.
The temptation with uncoated work is to separate through the coated profile and then lighten things by hand until the proof looks right. It does not work, because the difference is not a single global shift. Uncoated stock spreads dots more in the mid-tones than in the highlights, takes less total ink before it stops coping, and reaches a genuinely smaller gamut.
Converting through the correct profile encodes all of that at once. Adjusting by eye encodes your guess about one of them.
The pairing is straightforward. Coated stock for the job means Japan Color 2001 Coated, with its notably high 350% ink limit. Uncoated stock means this profile, which is more conservative in every direction.
If you genuinely do not know which paper a job is running on, that is the question to resolve before the colour question. The profile choice follows from it.
Attach it to the templates that print uncoated in Japan. Print.App applies the assigned profile at PDF render time and soft proofs the same conversion in the browser, so the muted uncoated result is visible to the customer before the order rather than after.
Print.App ships this profile built in, as CMYK-japan-2001-uncoated. 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.