I've been using LR and a Canon i9900 to print occasionally over the past 3 or 4 years and am now trying to understand technical aspects a bit better so I can improve results and reliability. Soft proofing seems to be very important, LR (and LR2) do not do it, I have read, so I am curious about two things:
How do I get a soft proof? Only through CS2 or -3 and some output/reinput process?
What is the "print preview" image that pops up when using LR? To my untrained eye it looks a lot like the print that the i9900 will make, and it often looks quite different from the image I had been working with, so it seems to be a translation of the working image into the color range of the printer/paper/profile.
Any guidance or reading on this topic will be most welcome.
Thanks and best wishes,
Ed