Specifications

The Digital Fine Print Course
Printing a Fine Print
Copyright Les Walkling 2012
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Photoshop CS2™ Printing with Custom RGB Printer Profiles
Select PRINT WITH PREVIEW to layout the image and set the Color Management
options. The image’s colour space (Embedded Profile) will be automatically detected
and set as the DOCUMENT PROFILE.
Manually select your custom printer profile as the PRINTER PROFILE with Relative
Colorimetric Rendering Intent and Black Point Compensation turned ON.
Relative Colorimetric Intent will attempt to accurately reproduce all colours that are
inside the printer’s colour gamut. Black Point Compensation maps the blackest point
of the Source Space to the blackest point of the Print Space, thereby preserving the
image’s shadow detail, which is usually desirable.
However if the image contains many important ‘out-of-gamut’ saturated colours, use
the Perceptual Intent. All colours will then be changed to some extent, but their pro-
portional hue and saturation differences will be approximately maintained.
Always use printer profiles with their correct Printer
Driver Settings