Adobe Color Printer Utility

For reasons known only to themselves in the last release of Photoshop with Creative Suite 5 Adobe omitted the setting in Print dialogue that let users output profiling charts and other images with the Colour Handling set to No Colour Management.

A number of work arounds were developed to enable profiling charts to be output without any colour management but none were entirely satisfactory.

Now, at last, Adobe have come up with a solution and have released an application specifically for printing profiling charts. The Adobe Colour Printer Utility can be downloaded for free from:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83497.html

You simply have to launch the application, load the TIFF file of the colour patches, select the correct page set up and then print. Of course you still need to set you printer driver options correctly to also do no colour adjustments and to use the right media settings etc.