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Chapter 18 — File Menu | Print… 167
y Color Management Tab
The “Color Management” tab enables you to set the color
management options for the images when they are printed.
The settings within the “Color Management” tab default to
the settings indicated within the “Preferences” dialog.
A Please note: If you assign color management within the print
dialog, it is very important that you turn off color management
within your printer driver. Refer to your printer's documentation
on how to disable color management within your printer.
Image Profile
This displays the current profile assigned to the image.
Printer Profile
Use this menu to select the correct profile to use with your
printer. If you are unsure of which profile to use, simply
select the Image profile option at the top of the list.
Intent
The Intent option lets you choose one of four different
rendering intents to apply to your image. The different rendering intents control how colors from your
image are made to fit into the colors that your printer can produce as indicated by the printer profile.
A Please note: Different printer and paper combinations, as well as the different software used to create printer
profiles, benefit from different rendering intents. Experiment with the different rendering intents within your
workflow to find the option that works best.
Capture NX 2 provides the following intents:
Perceptual
This rendering intent maintains the relationships of colors so that the printed
image appears natural to the human eye. While this intent maintains the
relationship of colors, the actual color values will be changed.
Saturation
This rendering intent produces highly saturated colors, but it may not produce
accurate colors in a photograph.
Relative
Colorimetric
This rendering intent maps all of the colors that fall outside of the gamut of the
target profile to the closest reproducible color. This profile reproduces accurately
all of the colors that are within the range of colors reproducible by your printer.
This option preserves as many natural colors as possible and is often the best
choice for printing photographs.
Absolute
Colorimetric
This rendering intent is very similar to relative colorimetric, except that it maps
the white point of the image to the white point of the destination profile. It is
recommend that you use absolute colorimetric only if you want to proof your
images for a specific print device other than your printer, since this rendering
intent will attempt to reproduce the results of the output device, including the
effect of a different paper color.