Tutorials - Color Management for Photographers - page 364

RGB working space, not a print/output space, because in step 5,
we will select a printer profile for conversions. If the document is
already in a print/output space, doing this would produce a
double application of the output profile and the color on the
resulting print will be very poor. If this were the case, you could
pick the No Color Management option in the Color Handling
pop-up menu, which tells Photoshop CS2 to send the data to the
printer without conducting any color space conversions.
5. Click the Color Handling pop-up menu and select Let
Photoshop Determine Colors if not already selected. The
Printer Profile pop-up menu is where you select your printer
profile, so go ahead and pick the correct profile for your printer
and paper. Also, pick the rendering intent for the conversion into
the print space. I would also recommend you have Use Black
Point Compensation check box on. The preview window in
Print with Preview is not color managed, so not only will you
need to know prior to using this command what rendering
intent to use (based on a soft proof), you cannot rely on this
small preview for anything other than FPO. The settings in the
upper right area of the Print with Preview command allows
you to adjust the size and position of the image to be printed;
this is why this small preview is seen in this dialog.
6. If you click OK , an on-the-fly conversion from ColorMatch RGB
to your printer output profile will be conducted as the image
data is sent to the printer once you configure the print driver
settings. The CMM that will be used in Print with Preview is
the CMM you picked in the Photoshop Color Settings.
Otherwise, this method of converting and printing will produce
the same results as if you applied the profile using Photoshop's
Convert to Profile command. If you wish to print the image,
click OK or click on the Cancel button to dismiss this dialog. If
you click OK , the Print with Preview dialog will dismiss itself,
the actual print driver dialog will appear, and you will need to
configure the driver based on the printer and print settings. It is
important that these settings match those settings used to
originally print the profile target.
7. Once the Print with Preview dialog is dismissed, you will
convert the Printer_Test_File.tif into a print/output space using
the Convert to Profile command. Choose Edit-Convert to
Profile in CS2 as seen in Fig. 9-9-2 (page 358).
From the Profile pop-up menu, select your printer profile .
From the Engine pop-up menu, select Adobe ACE .
From the Intent pop-up menu, select Relative Colorimetric .
Have Use Black Point Compensation and Use Dither check
boxes on.