Soft Proof for Third Party Printing?

Julieanne's great training video covers Soft Proofing for monitors and local printers. How about using it for exports to third party Printers? All my work is exported to my Zenfolio sponsored website. From there is purchased for print by further exporting it to MPIX who in turn ship it directly to the buyer. How can I use Soft Proofing to optimize those photos. With LR3 my highly random and guesstimate solution was to add +5 with the brightness slider. I don't know why but its seemed to work even though the images were overly bright on my iMac monitor.

In terms of Blurb, unless you know for a fact that they use only one profile, then the soft proof debate is moot. And I seriously doubt they have one profile for all their papers (that is basically impossible).
This is correct. Blurb uses different printers/presses for different run sizes. You really cannot predict which one they will use and soft proofing to their one profile is really not useful. In fact I have tested this before and had two identical books printed with them, one using their (indeed cmyk) profile and one leaving all the images in sRGB. The sRGB one came out much closer to the original and the cmyk one came out too dark. In fact the cmyk one looked like what happens when I apply generic US web coated to images in their profile, so if you want to print with blurb, you're better off completely ignoring their profile and sending everything in sRGB as Lightroom appears to do. Of course you could have guessed this as they only offer a single profile, while they offer quite a few different papers as well as use multiple printers/presses.

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