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Printing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
Print 16-bit color
❖ In the Print Job panel, select 16 Bit Output if you are printing to a 16-bit printer under Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) or
higher.
Note: If you select 16 Bit Output and print to a printer that does not support it, print performance is slowed, but quality
is not affected.
Set print color management
You can specify whether Lightroom or the printer driver handles color management during printing. If you want to use
a custom printer color profile created for a specific printer and paper combination, Lightroom handles the color
management. Otherwise, the printer manages it. If Draft Mode Printing is enabled, the printer automatically handles
color management.
Note: Custom printer color profiles are usually created using special devices and software that generate the profile files. If
printer color profiles are not installed on your computer or if Lightroom cannot locate them, Managed By Printer and Other
are the only options available in the Profile area of the Print Job panel.
1 In the Color Management area of the Print Job panel, choose one of the following from the Profile pop-up menu:
• To use a printer color profile to convert the image before sending it to the printer, choose a specific RGB profile
listed in the menu.
Note: If you choose a custom printer color profile in Lightroom, make sure color management is turned off in the printer
driver software. Otherwise, your photos will be color converted twice, and the colors might not print as you expect. See
your printer’s documentation for instructions on turning off color management in the driver software. Lightroom does
not recognize CMYK printer profiles.
• To send the image data to the printer driver without first converting the image according to a profile, choose
Managed By Printer.
• To select printer profiles to appear in the Profile pop-up menu, choose Other and then select the color profiles
in the Choose Profiles dialog box.
Note: Generally, you’ll choose this option if no profiles are listed in the Profile pop-up menu, or if the profile you want
isn’t listed. Lightroom tries to find custom print profiles on your computer. If it’s unable to locate any profiles, choose
Managed By Printer and let the printer driver handle the print color managing.
2 If you specify a profile, choose a rendering intent to specify how colors are converted from the image’s color space
to the printer’s color space:
Note: The printer’s color space will generally be smaller then the image’s color space, often resulting in colors that can’t
be reproduced. The rendering intent you choose attempts to compensate for these out-of-gamut colors.
Perceptual Perceptual rendering tries to preserve the visual relationship between colors. Colors that are in-gamut
may change as out-of-gamut colors are shifted to reproducible colors. Perceptual rendering is a good choice when
your image has many out-of gamut colors.
Relative Relative rendering preserves all in-gamut colors and shifts out-of gamut colors to the closest reproducible
color. The Relative option preserves more of the original color and is a good choice when you have few out-of-gamut
colors.
3 (Optional) To achieve colors in print that more closely resemble the bright and saturated look of onscreen colors in
Lightroom, select Print Adjustment. Then, drag the Brightness and Contrast sliders.