Help printing to Newsprint? color profiles?

Hi,
are there any generic color profiles for printing to newsprint?
I would like to adjust colors on my monitor to go out to newspaper for a job I am doing.
thanks!
-Josh

Should You be situated in Europe You might try
http://www.eci.org/eci/en/
and look for ISOnewspaper26v4 in the download-section.

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