Embedded Profiles

Dear All,
I wish to check my understanding of embedded profiles. I will have to print out from a second machine that I will not have the ICC profile I am using installed.
You use Edit>Convert to Profile
Edit>Colour Settings is set to preserve profiles
File>Save As is has the colour mangement box checked with the correct profile.
When you open the file on a second machine you use Print with the following settings:
Photoshop manages Colour
Printer Profile - IF THE PROFILE IS NOT INSTALLED ON THAT MACHINE WILL THE ORIGINAL PROFILE APPEAR?
Disable Printers colour management.
Will the image print out in correct profile? What about point 6

savispud wrote:
…6. Printer Profile - IF THE PROFILE IS NOT INSTALLED ON THAT MACHINE WILL THE ORIGINAL PROFILE APPEAR?…
Yes, that's why you embed the profile in the file, so that the profile trivels along with, right inside the file itself.  That's what "embedded" means.

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