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Author: Roger Deng

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Introduction

This article describes the basic RGB workflow required for various consumer printers available in the market.

The most important aspect of getting good prints out of your printer is a well calibrated monitor. I used the Pantone Colorvision's Colorplus calibrator (cheapo one) for my monitor calibration. To me, this is the quickest and effective way to do it. Alternatively, you can do visual calibration (using eyes) using various softwares but those are not preferred as your eyes have different judgement under different lighting conditions. That said, without calibration, your printer is still as good as a colorblind machine.

Setup

The following are the workflow for setting up Photoshop CS2 for printing.

Color setup

  1. In Photoshop CS2, Select Edit > Color setting.
  2. Select Europe Prepress2 and its default setting
  3. Select OK

Image setup

Open you image in CS2 and assign Adobe RGB (1998) as the working profile.

Soft Proofing

  1. Select View > Proof Setup > Custom
  2. On the pull down tab of 'Device to Simulate', select the profile best suited to the media (paper type)you are going to use on your printer.
  3. Untick Preserve RGB Number.
  4. On Rendering Intent, select Perceptual. ( Experiment between Perceptual and Relative Colorimetric for best results)
  5. Tick Black Point Compensation
  6. Untick Simulate Paper color and Simulate Black ink
  7. Select OK
  8. Using CTRL-Y to toggle simulation for the soft proofing

Printing

  1. Select File > Print with Preview
  2. Under options,
    1. For Color Handling, select Let Photoshop Determine Colors
    2. For Printer Profile, select the profile that was used in the Soft Proofing, 'Device to Simulate'.
    3. For Rendering Intent, select the Rendering Intent as was selected in Soft Proofing.
  3. Select Print.
  4. In the Print dialog box, select the printer you are going to print with then select Properties
  5. In your printer setting, set the print size and select the right paper type according to what you selected in CS2
  6. Set the ICM and all color management to off. In short, no color mangament from the printer is to be activated.
  7. Once these settings are done, select OK.
  8. Print the photo


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Do a few test prints on a 4R size glossy photographic paper first before moving on to print it in larger sizes.

Hope this article is of some help to you.

If however you believe there is a better or more suitable way to print your images, you are most welcome to post here and correct me, if any. ;)

Cheers.


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