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Now we're going to finish everything up and put the final touches on the settings on this image, which is now, by my estimation, ready to be printed. Let's take out all these guides so that we can see the finished product. We go down here to Print Job and there are a number of choices that we can make. We can print to the printer or, as we discussed in the Printing 101 section, a JPG file. I don't need to repeat myself as to why it only generates to a JPG file. It should generate to a TIF, for all the reasons that I have already discussed, but if you want it to go to a JPG file, then we get another set of dialog choices down here, such as the resolution at 300. I've already set this to 150, so let's match the print. The print is set at 150, so we might as well do this to match the print. Print Sharpening, absolutely not. You do this in Photoshop. JPG quality 100 percent. If you're going to have to print a JPG, and we didn't discuss this before, but if push comes to shove and you end up absolutely having to print this as a JPG, always, always print this at 100 percent. Don't allow this JPG algorithm to compress any more than it absolutely has to. So you always want to choose 100 percent if you're going to choose a JPG. Custom File Dimensions, no, we're going to leave that off because that's already established here and the color management now, the profile really should be one of two things, either Adobe RGB, which gives you more color, has a wider color gamut than sRGB. ProPhoto RGB is laughable in a JPG. I mean, it's insulting to even put it in there. I don't know why they would even consider that. Or you can go down to each individual printer's profile and this really is the best way to do it. Printers are like people; there's no two alike. You get five of the same models side by side and each printer is going to be a tiny bit different. So what you need to do is you need to take the printer profile for your specific printer and install it into Lightroom, again using the Page Setup and then choosing the printer right here. You choose the profile right there and then it will print exactly what you see on the screen. Now, the difference between Adobe RGB and the Canon I9900 profiles is difficult to see on the screen, but I promise you, if you print both of them and compare them, you would see a world of difference. You always want to impress your profile from the printer that you're going to be outputting to, but if you don't have that, such as if you're going to send this to a lab, god forbid you're going to send a JPG to a lab, but if you're going to do that, then either just get the profile from the lab for the specific printer that they use or assign Adobe RGB to it. That's the lesser of all evils is to just go ahead and do a sweeping assumption of Adobe RGB. Rendering Intent is relative. Always leave that relative. You don't want any perceptual in there. You want relative because that gives you the exact settings that you impressed on this image is exactly what's going to print, so that's what you want. Now, if you're going to output to the printer, you have a number of different choices. Color Management, again, you want to assign the specific printer's profile in Color Management. Again, relative. Print Resolution, you can leave that blank, but you just want to match the resolution that you gave to the image when you were preparing it. Why it won't, and if it won't set, which it looks like this one is not, for whatever there it goes. OK, it finally took. I thought it would. It was scaring me that it wasn't taking. So 150 is the resolution. If in the future it doesn't accept the value that you put in there, then uncheck it and let the image dictate how it looks. Now, you want to use Draft Mode printing when you're doing contact sheets and proofs and things that are not really final output. You're going to send these out to a client. They're going to pick the one they want, mark them, maybe crop them a little bit, like we used to do in the old days, when we had film strips that we laid down on the surface of the print paper and exposed it and sent it to the client, then they chopped it up. So use Draft Mode printing. You'll save yourself ink and, plus, your printer will print much, much faster. So those are all the choices available to you in the Print Job section. Then you hit Print. It's going to again take you to the Printers dialog box in the Windows environment. You make all your choices on here and then come down and hit Print and it will grind you a print. Or, and again, you can output this to a JPG file and then send it off to a lab to be printed, however you want to do it. So, that's printing in Lightroom.