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Your prints will be of higher quality if you use printer profiles.
A printer profile optimizes the use of a certain combination of printer, ink set, and paper type.
You need a different profile for each combination of printer, ink set, and paper type.
When you set up your printer, profiles were probably installed.
Profiles of other combinations of printer, ink set, and paper type, are available from The following
Go to Paper manufacturers.
Digital Domain Makers of QImage, an image manipulation program, and Prism, a printer profile maker
You can create your own profiles with hardware and software, such as the PrintFIXPRO from ColorVison.
Windows XP users should download the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet.
You can use the applet to review which profiles are already installed, and to install new profiles.
If you don't use the above applet, Windows XP users can right click on the profile in Windows Explorer and select Install Profile.
Profiles are located at Windows > System32 > Spool > Drivers > Color.
Make sure the printer driver is not performing color management.
1) You've turned color management on in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
2) You've used the software to convert a file to Printer Profile 1245.
3) You click Print, and the file is sent to the printer.
4) If the printer driver has color management turned on, it may also apply a color profile, say, Printer Profile 54321.
5) The print looks strange.
The colors will be off, there may be a color caste in gray areas, and the print may be too light.
Go to Print.
Click Page Set Up > Printer > Properties.
Look for a section concerning color management, often abbreviated ICM, and make the selection for no color management by the printer driver.
You can use printer profiles at home and with many labs.
In the next section, we'll look at home use.
Then, we'll look at how you can use printer profiles with labs.
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