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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 303708" data-attributes="member: 9240">Print houses worth their salt will usually require you use sRGB since that's the only thing most printers are capable of printing (most consumer grade home printers will only handle a portion of that space).  You need to have your monitor calibrated if you expect to match anything, so if your monitor isn't calibrated you're going to want to do that and tweak your images before sending them out.  Nations Photo Lab will go as far as to send you their <a href="http://www.nationsphotolab.com/thechallenge.aspx" target="_blank">ICC profiles based on your monitor calibration method</a> so that you can see what your print will look like on their monitors, and subsequently their printers.  They'll also color adjust your prints as a part of the print process, which always seems a little strange to me, but I know a lot of people swear by them.</blockquote>