reproducing. ICC profiles can be associated with your printer via the Colour Management tab of the printer driver.
Depending on how you have installed the printer driver, the colour profiles may already be associated with the driver.
To associate ICC Colour Profiles with the printer driver:
1.Access the printer settings via the Start menu.
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3.Click the Colour Management tab.
4.Under “Colour Profiles currently associated with this printer”, you should see the names of profiles that match your printer model. If you do not see any profiles associated with the driver, click “Add…” and locate the ICC profiles for your printer.
Windows ICM uses the information in these profiles to convert colours in your documents to colours that the printer can reproduce. The way in which this conversion is performed can be controlled via the ICM Intent control in the printer driver.
USING ICC PROFILES
Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Affects RGB data only.
This provides a method of matching RGB colours similar to Windows ICM matching. The main advantage it has over Windows ICM colour matching is that it provides a method of printing using both input and output profiles. Windows ICM matching only allows output profiles to be chosen.
Input profiles provide information about the colour in the original device that was used to capture or display the image data. For example, an input device could be a scanner, digital camera or monitor.
Output profiles provide information about the device to which you are printing.
The “Using ICC Profiles” function allows both an input profile (e.g. digital camera), and an output profile (e.g. your printer) to be selected. It uses both these profiles to generate a CRD (Colour
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