What led me to this conclusion was direct
comparison between prints of a given image made by an intent-controllable
application (Photoshop and ACDSee) and any other non-color managed
application (Word, Internet Explorer, Canon CD-Label Print, and, of course,
Photoshop and ACDSee with their color management settings disabled). This is
very the same result with Windows XP. Anyway, I suspect both Windows XP and
Vista ICM engines (which seem to be the same in essence) have rendering intent
control built-in their codes, because some applications (like ACDSee) that don't
have their own color management engine, relying on XP/Vista color engine for
that purpose, but still have control of what rendering intent to "borrow", are
able to change the output rendering (from perceptual to
saturation).
Now it comes another question: if Vista color
management can't select by itself other than perceptual intent for ICC/ICM
printing profiles, what to expect for monitor ones? I'm not sure
but suspect they are also treated for perceptual intent. If so, it
shouldn't hurt so much, since monitor gamuts are usually larger enough to
accomodate most real-world image data.
----- Original Message -----From: LAURIESent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:26 AMSubject: RE: [colorvision_group] High quality target for CD/DVD printing>Windows Vista color management only considers perceptual rendering, despite of all kind of settings combinations I have tried on >color management panel.
I am not sure what has led you to this conclusion. I opened up the Color Management item in the Vista Control panel and saw that while perceptual was the default rendering other rendering intents were available options.