Digital BW, The Print

The reason both are offered is, in part, because the print engine can be different through the two OSes. This means that, even if the profile format and function is identical, the thing which is being profiled may not be, so that two different instances may be needed. 

C. David Tobie
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> On Nov 8, 2014, at 3:08 AM, 'Bob Frost' bobfrost@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying, but AFAIK Mac profiles ARE the same as 
> Windows profiles except for the .icc that Apple uses and the .icm that 
> Microsoft uses. Both should work on either OS, whatever the extension. Using 
> Adobe's CMM (in Photoshop) on a Mac or Windows should give the same result, 
> but Apple's Colorsync CMM is the 'fly in the ointment' as it seems to refuse 
> to take a background role in color management as Windows ICM does. I've 
> never used a Mac, but I've read a lot about the problems in printing from 
> one on Apple's ColorSync list.
> 
> But if you know different reasons, I would like to hear them.
> 
> Bob Frost
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Ben Schneider benjschneider2@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint]
> 
> "No casts with my Windows setups and the same paper profiles."
> 
> Mac profiles are not the same as PC profiles. The Epson site has profiles 
> for Macs, and others for PCs.
> 
> There must be a difference in the two if Epson offers both!
> 
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