Chapter 5. Fit to Print: Step-by-Step Printing and Color Management

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In the last version of this book, this chapter was simply called color management, when in reality it was pretty much a chapter on printing, because if you’re not printing, who really cares if you’re color managed, right? What you see onscreen is what you get—you don’t have to match it to anything. But once you start printing, all heck breaks loose. (Note: I didn’t want to use the word “heck” there, but my editor is “with child” and I didn’t want to startle her.) The two are very closely tied together, and maybe that’s why much of Photoshop’s color management takes place in the ...

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