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Re: Spyder Print - Mac OS X Mountain Lion and target printing

2012-11-30 by khazaril

Thanks for the reply James, very comprehensive.

There seems to be quite a difference on a mac. When Photoshop manages colours I see no easy way to disable printer colour management. If I go to print settings > colour matching I see 2 greyed out options. ColorSync or Vendor. ColorSync is selected.

Datacolor have as a download a Generic RGB profile that, when used, effectively disables colour management.

As CS6 no longer offers the option to turn off colour management Adobe have a free bit of software > http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html

This is the way I printed out my targets:
  1. Open Colorsync Utility and assign the Datacolor Generic RGB profile to my printer. Hopefully this disables the printer colour management.
  2. Print the targets using the Adobe Color Printer Utility.
As it would be much nicer to print the targets directly from the Spyder Print software would this workflow work?
  1. Open Colorsync Utility and assign the Datacolor Generic RGB profile to my printer.
  2. Print from the Spyder Print software.
I just wanted to be sure that I'm printing the targets correctly.

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