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If your primary goal is preparing images for print, you certainly have heard the issue of printer profiles discussed. Well, maybe you haven't. If you haven't, in simple terms, a printer profile is a tiny computer program that allows the monitor to see what the printer is going to do. Printer profiles go hand in hand with monitor calibration except that you have a different profile for each individual printer model and manufacturer in existence. And when you buy your printer, it'll come with the software to install the driver and in there there'll be a profile that you can install either in Windows or in the Mac operating system. Also, if you're sending your work to an outside service bureau, that service bureau will be able to supply you with the profiles of the printers that they use to generate their work. Now, there are companies that will make custom profiles if you want, supposedly able to more finitely tweak the results you might get. But if you simply use the profile supplied by the printer's manufacturer, you should be in fine shape, assuming that your monitor is calibrated appropriately. Now, here's how to change the profile in Photoshop. It's a very straightforward process just like we've been doing with the working spaces. You go to edit, you'll see the drop-down menu, click on assign profile, go up here to the drop-down list and there's tons of profiles in here and I have been using the Canon i9900. I stopped using that printer about a year ago and I now send out all my prints to a company called MyPhotoPipe.com, which is an excellent company. But when I was using the i9900, these were the profiles that I was supplied. And there's tons of others in here from different printers. Some of these are generic profiles, but some are specific. Here's my old Epson Stylus Photo 820. That antique profile is still there. Let's see what happens when you click on that. See the difference? There's a visible difference in how your monitor looks at what the printer is going to generate; much different there. So we go back to the old tried and true i9900. But that's how to change the profile. If you want to add a profile from a printer manufacturer, you have to do that through Windows, which is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Consult your Windows manual for exactly how to do that.