Friday, July 3, 2015

How to Set Photoshop to Match Your Printer


Find your printer's International Color Consortium (ICC) file. This file is usually bundled on your driver installation CD, or can be found online from your printer manufacturer's website. Every individual printer series has a unique ICC color profile file, so find the one that matches your printer exactly. If you have installed your printer's drivers from a CD, try searching for files ending in .icc or .icm.
Open Photoshop and the image you want to print by clicking on the 'File' menu and choosing 'Open.' Navigate to the image file, click on it and then click 'Open.'
Assign the color profile to the image by clicking on the 'Image' menu and choosing 'Mode' and then 'Assign Profile.' Find the ICC or ICM file associated with your printer, select it and click 'OK.'
Edit the photo using your printer's colorspace. Because Photoshop will limit the available colors to the colors that can be rendered by your printer, the image you can see on the screen will more faithfully be represented on paper.
Access the 'File' menu and choose 'Print with preview.'
Under the 'Color Handling' drop down menu, select 'Let Photoshop Determine Colors.' Photoshop should automatically apply your printers ICC color profile, but if it does not, select your printer's profile from the list.
Under the 'Rendering Intent' option, choose 'Relative Colorimetric' and check 'Black Point Compensation' to tell Photoshop to render the colors in a way that matches the colors your printer is able to print.

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