Digital BW, The Print

This can't possibly be true, because 'Macs just work'.     ;)

Sorry, I couldn't resist that temptation.

Bob Frost.

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From: "C D Tobie" <CDTobie@...>

> 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.