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Using Color Management Profiles, Adjusting for Different Lighting Conditions

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Using Color Management Profiles If you're printing in Adobe Photoshop using a color management profile created in another program, you'll need to turn off your printer's color management features to get accurate results. If you use a profile but leave your printer's color management features turned on, your colors won't be correct. To turn off color management, follow these steps: 1. Start your application, open the file you want to print, and select your custom color management profile. (See your application documentation for details.) 2. To turn off your printer software color management, access your printer settings dialog box; see page 9 (for Windows) or page 16 (for Macintosh). 3. Click Custom, then click Advanced. You see the Advanced dialog box. 4. Select the No Color Adjustment option on the top right of the dialog box. 5. Select the rest of your printer software settings and click OK. Adjusting for Different Lighting Conditions Due to the nature of all pigment-based inks, lighting conditions can affect the appearance of colors in your printed output. For example, a print viewed in daylight may appear to have a slightly different color balance when viewed under tungsten lighting. This phenomenon is known as metamerism. To minimize the effects of metamerism, the colors in your prints will look best when illuminated by a D50 (daylight) light source. For display under a different light source, you can optimize the appearance of colors in your prints in one of these ways: s Adjust the RGB color space in your application to optimize the output for your light source. s Adjust the color balance of the image in your application. s Use third-party color management software to create a color profile that optimizes your output for your light source. s Manually adjust the color controls in the printer software's Advanced dialog box. 21

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Using Color Management Profiles
If you’re printing in Adobe Photoshop using a color management profile created in
another program, you’ll need to turn off your printer’s color management features to
get accurate results. If you use a profile but leave your printer’s color management
features turned on, your colors won’t be correct. To turn off color management,
follow these steps:
1.
Start your application, open the file you want to print, and select your custom
color management profile. (See your application documentation for details.)
2.
To turn off your printer software color management, access your printer settings
dialog box; see page 9 (for Windows) or page 16 (for Macintosh).
3.
Click
Custom
, then click
Advanced
. You see the Advanced dialog box.
4.
Select the
No Color Adjustment
option on the top right of the dialog box.
5.
Select the rest of your printer software settings and click
OK
.
Adjusting for Different Lighting Conditions
Due to the nature of all pigment-based inks, lighting conditions can affect the
appearance of colors in your printed output. For example, a print viewed in daylight
may appear to have a slightly different color balance when viewed under tungsten
lighting. This phenomenon is known as metamerism.
To minimize the effects of metamerism, the colors in your prints will look best when
illuminated by a D50 (daylight) light source. For display under a different light
source, you can optimize the appearance of colors in your prints in one of these ways:
■
Adjust the RGB color space in your application to optimize the output for your
light source.
■
Adjust the color balance of the image in your application.
■
Use third-party color management software to create a color profile that optimizes
your output for your light source.
■
Manually adjust the color controls in the printer software’s Advanced dialog box.