Graham White <g.graham.wh...@gmail.com> writes: > I have a problem understanding the various options for selecting a > colour profile for printing. There seem to be three places where you can > set this, namely:
And there are indeed 3 things you may want to do with profiles: 1) Make sure images are displayed properly on your screen. This is the "display profile" and is typically obtained by calibrating your screen. It's independant from your printer, obviously. 2) Make sure colors are rendered properly when printing. If I understand correctly, this is done in two steps: first export the picture to a large colorspace (as much as possible larger than your printer's), and then correct the colors while sending the image to the printer. You would distinguish both steps if you were sending the file to someone else: you'd do the export and the other end would do the printer-specific stuff. These are the two profiles listed in the print dialog: https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch07s02.html.php https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch07s02s03.html.php 3) Softproof: get the best possible approximation on screen of what the final printout will look like. In other words, replace colors that your screen can render but that your printer can't with a color that your printer will be able to print. You can customize this with the softproof button (right-click for details) in the darkroom view. This is not strictly needed to get a good print, but you probably want this if you have you printer's profile. (disclaimer: I don't do printing myself, so my explanations may have to be taken with a grain of salt) -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
