Digital BW, The Print

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:12 PM, scanzzz wrote:

> Is this also an issue for Windows and CS4 or just the Mac?

This is a situation where attempts to improve the workflow for  
ColorSync color management on the Mac have caused widespread color  
management problems with Adobe applications and other color managed  
applications, with many printer drivers. The grayscale issue is just  
one aspect of it. It also shows its head when you attempt to choose a  
custom profile with a range of printer drivers from Photoshop CS4,  
Lightroom2, or other apps. An unrequested conversion is triggered by  
OS 10.5, that trashes your color. Everybody blames someone else; but  
the irony is that earlier combinations worked, and now they don't. We  
can't get every printer company to rewrite every driver, so claiming  
that the drivers should be updated to  "fix" it is not practical. On  
the other hand, Adobe claims they have done what Apple told them to do  
to update their apps. But the result is that printing to some printer  
drivers from CS4 requires converting the image to the output profile  
in Photoshop, then assigning GenericRGB (in the case of RGB images,  
that is), so that the problem conversion is null. Thats a lot to ask  
of users, and is not even possible from other apps, only from full  
Photoshop.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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