Turning Photographs Into Art Part 7: Printing from Lightroom Part C - Color Management

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1 - Introduction: about printers
If papers are important, something I discussed in my previous essay, printers are just as important.  After all, it is the printer that lays the ink that goes onto the paper. As such the printer is the worker, the intermediary between what we see on the screen and what we get on the paper.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, printers are default devices.  This means that they do not play a creative part in the printing process.  What they do is faithfully print the image according to the information sent to them by the computer and the software.  This information consists of bits of data, zeroes and ones, coded information that needs to be accurate in order to duplicate our vision faithfully and translate what we created on the screen into an accurate image using dots of ink laid onto fine art paper. The creative part is taking the photograph then controlling the color and contrast precisely during the imag...