1. Obtain the printer ICC profile with correct paper and ink combination. It is essential to get right ICC profile for the paper and ink you are using. Printer ICC profile could be obtained from printer’s driver and manufacture’s website, ask your local photo lab or print shop to provide the profile, or generate printer ICC profiles from 3rd party profiling software. There are number of sources in the internet which could provide detail instructions for generating your own printer ICC profile, so we will not go into details here.
2. Copy the printer ICC profile to the ICC profile folder listed above.
3. Restart Photoshop if the application is in used before you done the copy operation.
4. Go to ‘View’ -> ‘Proof Setup’ -> ‘Custom’ (as shown in Figure 6).
5. In the pop-up window, select your printer ICC profile in the drop-down box next to ‘Device to Simulate’ (as shown in Figure 7).
6. Select ‘Relative Colorimetric’ in ‘Rendering Intent’ drop-down box (as shown in Figure 7).