Yahoo Groups archive

QTR-Quadtone RIP

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:12 UTC

Message

macOS Mojave issues with Print-Tool

2018-10-29 by roy@...

Hi All


Well Apple has come out with a new OS and there seem to be some issues with

Print-Tool. Print-Tool has always supported .psd files directly -- this is a feature of

the macOS libraries. However with Mojave some of the metadata in the .psd file

seems to get lost. The most obvious is that the saved PPI of the file is not found

so a default of 72 PPI ends up being used. The data is all there but it ends up appearing

that the height and width are much larger. (i.e. a 360PPI looks 5 times the size at 72ppi).

This is annoying but obvious and you can drag the size to make it what you want.

More insidious is that the embedded ICC profile is not found so all PSD files show

up as untagged. If you are printing with No Color Management this doesn't make a

difference but if you use and expect color management it will likely be wrong.

This is all true regardless of which print driver you use -- QTR driver or Epson or

anything else too.


The good news is that TIFF files work just fine. So you can convert PSD files to TIFF

and actually I recommend using TIFF for all your Photoshop work. After all its a

more universal and open format and can save all the Photoshop special layers etc.


There's also a minor display issue that makes the shadow around the paper look wrong.

It does not seem to affect anything important.


As far as I know there are no problems with QTR driver and Mojave.


Thanks

Roy




Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.