Rendering Intent

[gary alan]

Hi Guys, new to the forum and plan on learning a lot.

The printer I use does not know the technical side of printing all that well so I cant ask him, what I want to know is that whether I chose perceptual or relative as my intent, does the printer physically have to select that in the print settings or is it somehow embedded in my file and selected automatically.

Now he prints mostly consumer, and therefore always uses perceptual, I like to use relative mostly depending on the shift but I want to know if my softproofs are good. Do I need to tell the printer what intent I want the file printed with?

 

[William Allen]

May I assume that you understand the significance of rendering intent? When the printer has a smaller gamut than the image, the colour range can be either "squashed" or "chopped" to fit. Perceptual rendering compresses the extremes of the gamut so that the tonal separation is preserved and the image has a better chance of "looking right".

If you know that the printer uses perceptual, then it makes sense to set up Photoshop so that the images are delivered with the correct intent. Many printers just ignore color-space as well as rendering intent settings so I wouldn't leave this to chance.