STEP 3: Setting Your Page Setup & Getting Ready to Print

Next, choose “Print with Preview...” from the file menu. Notice the document dimensions, then click the “Page Setup...” button and set the proper page size and options and click “OK”.

Back in the “Print with Preview” dialog, you can visually confirm that your image will fit on the printed page, then check the “Show More Options” check box, and choose “Color Management”.

Your dialog box should now look something like this:

After verifying what image size your file is, create a Custom Page Size within the Epson driver Page Set-up dialog box and define it about 1-inch bigger than your image file.

To center the print, make sure to define the top and bottom margins the same.

Photoshop 7’s Print with Preview dialog box, is a great way to visually see how your image will fall on the page size you’ve defined.

For images within the gamut of the printer, Relative Colorimetric with Black Point Compensation ‘on’ usually works well.

If you are not sure if your printer’s color gamut is larger than the color gamut of the image file you’re trying to print, then use the Perceptual rendering intent.

If you notice blocky or unsmooth

color transitions when using the Relative Colorimetric rendering intent, then use Perceptual.

Print with Preview Dialog within Photoshop 7

Under “Source Space:” the Document radio button should be selected. You may see a different RGB profile tagged for your image file versus the example “Lab Color” above. It may say “Adobe RGB (1998)” or even “ColorMatch RGB”. If it says “Untagged RGB”, then Photoshop will apply the default RGB Working Space profile that you defined in Step 1, which was “Adobe RGB (1998)”.

Under “Print Space:” the “Profile:” selection should be set to an RGB ICC printer profile designed for your combination of printer model, paper, ink, and driver setup.

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