Color Management on a Photosmart 510a

I have the Color Munki color management system.  It asks me to "disconnect" the color management in my Photosmart 510a.
Have NO clue as to where to do that.  Is it by just changing the option to have the "software manage the colors?"
Thanks for info.
Bert

So what you're saying, which is not expressed very well in the very first post in the thread, is that for files saved WITH the sRGB profile, you'd like to see the same thing in Photoshop as you're seeing in a color-managed browser.  What I can't fathom why you would want to save files with no embedded profile.  Let's make that a separate discussion.
Going on the assumption above, and that you're using Windows 7, here's what you need to do:
1.  Your monitor profile (i.e., the one created by your calibrator or which came with your monitor) should be your default profile in Windows.  To check this, click the Start button, and type color management into the search box.  When Color Management comes up, click it, and look in the Advanced tab.
2.  Photoshop's color management should be enabled, and View - Proof Colors menu should be UNchecked.  This means Photoshop will transform the RGB values in an image with a given image profile into the proper values for correct display on your monitor.  This is your normal mode for editing.
3.  Create your web image using the sRGB color profile as your working space.
4.  Save it with the sRGB color profile embedded.
5.  Display it in Firefox.  It should look just the same as it did in Photoshop.
6.  Capture the screen showing both images (Photoshop and Firefox) side by side.
7.  Paste the captured image into a new document in Photoshop, and ASSIGN your monitor profile to it (because you grabbed it from your monitor).  If you have the proper checkbox set in your color management settings, Photoshop will automatically ask you to make this choice when you're pasting the image.  It should look just as it did when you captured it.
8.  CONVERT the image to the sRGB color profile.  You should not see the appearance of the image change.
9.  Save this image to a file, complete with the sRGB color profile.
10.  Post the image here.
Let me know if anything's not clear, or something doesn't happen as expected.
-Noel

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