Can you Soft-Proof in PSE 6 before printing?

Is there a way to soft-proof in PSE? I have createded custom ICC profiles for my monitor and printer/ink/paper combinations (using SpyderPrint) and would like to soft-proof the image on my monitor before printing. I know you can do this in Photoshop CS3, and it can save lots of of ink and paper, as compared to proofing from prints. Thanks.

Thanks, Richard. I should mention that there's at least one add-on program that claims to add soft proofing to PSE, but in my opinion it's not useful, since to really see what something looks like on paper you need to have access to CMYK and nothing can make PSE able to do that. I've tried the add-on and it brings up the softproof dialog box, but the changes you make there mostly have no effect on what you see onscreen, unfortunately, due to the limitations in the PSE code base.
Don't forget that as PSE owner you can usually upgrade to full PS for $299. Adobe sends email about this periodically, but in my experience, if you call adobe sales you can usually talk someone into letting you have it even when it's not officially offered, although you might have to call a couple of times till you get lucky.

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This has cropped up a few times before, the general opinion seems to be to use Average McCoy Gloss for proofing Apples print services.
Check out this link : http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=9295427&messageID=6190046
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