• Change the colour settings in the printer driver. This is a better option - you will not edit the image. You just have to play around with the driver colour settings. Yet more time, ink and paper wastage and you will still not get an exact match. You might get close to a match, and that might be good enough for you. But there's still not enough control in there so that you can alter individual colours. Try a black and white print and it become even more so noticeable - some shades of grey might have a magenta tint, whilst others have a green tint. It is impossible to correct this using the printer driver settings alone.

• Use a paper specific profile For the person who really wants a good match and to get the full range of colours out of the printer, this is definitely the way to go.

  For ease of use, and for an accurate print, a profile is definitely the best way to go. But what do you need in order to use a profile? Please read on...