Hi sq,
When you use the {Q} printer target set up, it turns off printer colour management, a must for target printing. So what is set in the CM settings is turned off too.
Your Job properties (bottom right of main screen) should look like the attached screen shot - it's for QU but other versions of Qimage are the same.
Terry

Hi sq,
Not necessarily but a target image should not have any profile exif data and no embedded profile either. I've checked the target images I have and that certainly applies.
In Qimage, you can tell there's an embedded profile by right mouse clicking with the cursor over the thumb, and selecting "display image info". It should say, <no embedded ICC profile>.
To check whether there is an exif tag, you'd need to use an exif reader like ExifToolGUI but if you have a target from a professional CM company, I'm sure there won't be one.
Terry

Yes 
I'm not sure where you mean "the colour space line in properties", in Qimage-U or somewhere else?
The "Exif Hot Bar" under the thumbs in Qimage will default to sRGB if there's no embedded profile or exif data.
Are you sure PS does add exif data for Adobe RGB? It may "associate" a profile which  cannot read by other software but I'm not really sure?
There is no actual Exif standard for Adobe RGB like there is for sRGB; the exif data will say something like "uncalibrated". QU interprets this as Adobe RGB.
Terry.

I thought it worked like this (and I wrote this not that long ago in another list):

Qimage has 3 main choices on color management:

1/ CM-Off = Qimage doesn't convert the file, sends the plain RGB data to
the driver so with the color space profile stripped from the file.

In that mode it will also not assign a colorspace to an untagged file,
for example a target file for profile creation. And Windows will not
assign a profile either, it leaves that task to applications.

2/ Let printer manage color = Qimage does the above but the color space
profile isn't stripped from the file so the printer driver CM can do
something sensible with the file.

3/ Qimage CM on, Qimage does the conversion and sends the converted data
to the printer driver, expecting that the last's CM is set to Let
application do CM, so in fact with the driver's CM off..

In both 2 and 3 Qimage could assign a colorspace to an untagged file
based on EXIF data, camera model as an educated guess or without any
hint available it will assign a color space, the default sRGB or a
preferred choice of the user, say AdobeRGB or nothing if the user
doesn't like guesswork.

The printer driver has usually two choices: let driver do CM and the
other one let application do CM.  With appication CM set the driver will
do no conversion at all and expects that the application does the work.
That is also the setting you will use to transfer targets through with
Qimage on CM off. When the driver does CM it will expect files with
certain colorspaces, my Z3200 can be set on AdobeRGB  or sRGB, the PS
driver has more spaces. The conversion happens to LUTs in the driver so
not with ICC profiles.

met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

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