Digital BW, The Print

With certain printers, installed in certain ways, with certain driver  
versions, the controls to turn off color management would be  
unavailable, or nonfunctional. There was some secret trick which  
Photoshop used, that sidestepped that, and allowed access to those  
features.

C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@...

On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:34 PM, "tboleyyh" <tyler@tylerboley.com> wrote:

> well I'm stumped then...
> During the height of the Leopard, PSCS4, Epson driver confusion, did  
> you see a different between charts printed from your software and  
> from Adobe? Or where the generic RGB workarounds required for PS?
> Tyler
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Cdtobie  
> <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, for some printers, the ColorMunki, since it only prints
>> targets directly to connected printers, does not work at all. The
>> Datacolor applications allow you to print targets from Photoshop, so
>> in those "worst cases" there is a workaround.
>>
>> C. D. Tobie
>> Global Product Technology Mngr.
>> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
>> Datacolor.com
>> CDTobie@...
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM, "tboleyyh" <tyler@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark it could very well be that given your work, you never
>>> experienced the problem, nor now whether or not anything is
>>> different in the update.
>>> Somehow, getting non-color managed data from Adobe through the OS to
>>> the drivers became convoluted. Also, there was an issue with the ABW
>>> driver as well, which I have not been monitoring, related to color
>>> management.
>>> Generally the only people having trouble were those making profiles,
>>> as one needs to be able to print a chart straight. I believe that
>>> when a profile IS selected, there is no problem.
>>> I've been wondering- have the profiling applications from which one
>>> can print the chart directly, like the EyeOne and DataColor
>>> applications, found a way to get the data through unaltered? This
>>> would explain why many have been unaffected.
>>>
>>> So, do you make your profiles with an app from which you print
>>> charts directly? Also, since I know you do great Piezotone work, you
>>> may never encounter an Almost Black and White issue.
>>> Tyler
>>>
>>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
>>> <mark@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What problem?
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>> http://www.stillrivereditions.com
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:22 PM, siiaam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> has been the printing problem solved with Apple's system upgrade?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Stephan
>
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