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Choosing Color Management Print Options
4. Select a method from the Color Handling pop-up menu.
The options differ, depending on whether you chose Document or Proof
in Step 3.
If you chose Document in the Print area, here are your options:
• Printer Manages Colors: Sends the document unchanged to the
printer, tagged with its color profile. The printer driver then picks an
appropriate color profile and converts your document’s colors to the
final printout. Just make sure you enable color management in your
printer dialog box.
• Photoshop Manages Colors: Tells Photoshop to handle the color con-
version, using the settings you select from the Printer Profile and
Rendering Intent pop-up menus. Photoshop also checks whether you
selected the Black Point Compensation option with this setting. If
you did, make sure you disable any color management in your
printer dialog box.
• Separations: Select this option if you want to print color separations.
(See the following section.) Note that your image must be in CMYK
mode.
If you chose Proof in the Print area, you see the same options, but a cou-
ple of them produce different results:
• Printer Manages Colors: Works only with a PostScript (PS level 2 or
higher) printer, which manages the color conversion of the proof to
the print based on your selection of Simulate Paper Color or Simulate
Black Ink.
• Photoshop Manages Colors: Tells Photoshop to handle the color con-
version of the proof to the print, using the printer profile specified in
the pop-up menu and your choice of simulation. Unless you have a
lot of dark colors, I recommend leaving it on Simulate Paper Color.
5. If you chose Photoshop Manages Colors in Step 4, select your printer
and paper type from the Printer Profile pop-up menu.
Profiles associated with the current printer you select in the Printer sub-
menu are sorted and placed at the top of the profile list.
Although you may be able to change the Rendering Intent setting, I rec-
ommend leaving this at the default setting of Relative Colorimetric, espe-
cially when printing photos or multicolored artwork. If, by chance, your
image has a lot of areas of solid saturated color, you can try Saturation.
Also, leave the Black Point Compensation check box at the default set-
ting of selected or deselected (depending on your Color Handling
choice) — unless, of course, you’re a color guru and have a better rea-
son not to. Setting this option enables your printer to more accurately
print the blacks in your image.
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