Soft proofing

Well, that could be interesting when you look at the multiplicity of papers and inks there are around.

I have been creating my printer profiles for years - it doesn’t take long and, if I change paper, I don’t have to wait for anyone else to create one for my particular printer’s ink. That kind of situation would end up with us having to wait while DxO gets around to testing all those possible combinations. As it is, they take long enough to support new cameras and lenses.

Most printer manufacturers only supply profiles for their own brand of paper and ink but I use fine art paper and tend to buy from suppliers like Fotospeed, Fuji and Canson.

But, since I find PhotoLab’s printing dialog to be inadequate, I always export to correctly sized TIFF files and then use either Canon’s own print manager or macOS preview or ColorSync Utility, which already contain soft proofing tools.

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