Photoshop and Color Management - Color Management for Photographers - page 104

cases where the user wanted the print driver, if so capable, to do the
conversions.
Print with Preview is a great way to color manage your documents
when you are printing directly from Photoshop. Even if the document
happens to be in high-bit (more than 8-bits per channel), you can still
print even if your printer or driver doesn't support high-bit data. The
Print with Preview dialog will convert on-the-fly from high-bit to 8-bits
per channel while handling all the color conversions. This is a bit faster
than waiting for Photoshop to process the entire document using Convert
to Profile . It also means that when the printing is complete, your docu-
ment is still in its original working color space and bit depth. The only
issue is that you need to know prior to printing is what rendering intent
you want to use. The preview you see in this dialog is not color managed
and not correct and is used for position only. As discussed, you can set
up Photoshop's proof setup to soft-proof documents and then, with that
critical information, set the rendering intent in the Print with Preview
dialog at print time.
Print with Preview (Photoshop CS2)
Print with Preview was dramatically changed in Photoshop CS2; therefore
it's necessary to look at this separately from Photoshop CS. The Print with
Preview command seen in Fig. 2-25 allows Photoshop to print and color
manage your documents in one location, as just discussed. In order to
look at all the options in this dialog, make sure you click on the More
Options button. As mentioned, the Print with Preview dialog is a part of
Photoshop, not a portion of a print driver. Once configured, we can tell
Photoshop how to prepare a document for printing and then Photoshop
will hand off the data to the print driver that will appear after clicking
the OK button.
Print At the top of this dialog is an area named Print with two radio
buttons— Document and Proof —that control how the current document
will be printed, based on additional settings in this dialog. Document is a
setting that affects only the current image, and is designed to deal with
a single output device. In other words, you have a document and you
simply want to send it to a single local printer. Next to the Document radio
button is the name of the profile embedded in the document you are
working with. If the document is untagged, this will be specified. It is a
good idea to keep an eye on this area of the Print with Preview dialog as
a useful reminder for ensuring that the color space of the document about
to be printed is correct. It is possible to color manage a document for
output prior to using the Print with Preview command. Therefore seeing
the current document color space is useful to ensure you do not apply a
profile again in this dialog.