How to print with ICC profile?

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magic_mark7
Jun 7, 2007
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I run Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1. I want to print an image with an ICC printer profile designed for my printer. I can think of 2 ways to do it, and I don’t know which is better (or if there is any difference). One way is "Image–>Mode–>Convert to Profile" and specify the profile name. The other is to use "Print with Preview" and then specify the profile name under "Print Space: Profile:".

Do these 2 methods yield different results?
If so, which is "better," and in what sense?

TIA.

–Mark
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Jun 7, 2007
"magic_mark7" wrote in message
I run Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1. I want to print an image with an ICC printer profile designed for my printer. I can think of 2 ways to do it, and I don’t know which is better (or if there is any difference). One way is "Image–>Mode–>Convert to Profile" and specify the profile name. The other is to use "Print with Preview" and then specify the profile name under "Print Space: Profile:".

Do these 2 methods yield different results?
If so, which is "better," and in what sense?

TIA.

–Mark
I suspect that these are equivalent procedures. However, if you don’t turn off color management in the
printer driver, you are apt to be disappointed.

I prefer to keep the image file in the working gamut. There is a significant chance that when you use the
first method you will unintentionally save the image in the printer gamut. It might be OK to do such, but
you are running the risk of a change in gamut eventually. You have a much better chance of success if
you never save an image with a printer gamut.

Thus, I always use the second procedure.

Jim

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