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What Is Color Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

Welcome to ICC Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127<br />

Monitor Calibration and Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

Printer Calibration and Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132<br />

A Color-Managed Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

Using Profiles and Soft-Proofing with Photoshop . . . . . . . . 140<br />

Determining Print Permanence 145<br />

How Long Is Long Enough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

Who Cares? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

The Meaning of Permanence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147<br />

What Affects Permanence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148<br />

Determining Permanence: Standards and Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Why Test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Types of Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Accelerated Testing Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

Who’s Doing the Testing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

So How Long Will It Last? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

What Can You Do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

The Artist’s Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175<br />

PART II : THE MAIN EVENT: INKJET PRINTING<br />

Selecting an Inkjet Printer 181<br />

1. Can I Use It to Print? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181<br />

What Size Output? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184<br />

2. How Old Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186<br />

3. What’s the Print Quality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187<br />

4. What Different Inks and Media Can I Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . 189<br />

Inks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189<br />

Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

5. How Permanent Are the <strong>Prints</strong>? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193<br />

6. Speed: How Long Does It Take to Print? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195<br />

7. How Easy to Set Up and Connect?<br />

How Big? How Noisy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

Wide-Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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