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Question for C.D.

2007-07-21 by Roger Sopher

I run Qimage in Parallels on my Mac pro but all of my PFP profiles
have been made on the Mac for use in photoshop. Can I use the Mac
generated profiles in Parallels or will I have to re-enter a bunch of
color patch data in the windows version of PFP?

Roger

Re: [colorvision_group] Question for C.D.

2007-07-21 by CDTobie@aol.com


In a message dated 7/21/07 1:18:27 PM, portlyfox@... writes:


I run Qimage in Parallels on my Mac pro but all of my PFP profiles
have been made on the Mac for use in photoshop. Can I use the Mac
generated profiles in Parallels or will I have to re-enter a bunch of
color patch data in the windows version of PFP?


Monitor profiles should be made on the system, under the OS, and with the videocard, that they will be used with. But printer profiles are quite universal. If you have Mac and Windows drivers that will print a PFP target so that the patches measure the same color (within reason) then the profile can be used under both OSes. This is quite common, as the printing code for many printers is not OS-specific (Microsoft will be doing their best to change this in the future, I suspect... but at the moment we have crossplatform integrety with many printer models).

If your test target proves sufficiently similar, then just copy all your printer profiles from the Mac ColorSync > Profiles folder to the Windows > Hidden In An Absurd Location > Color folder, and they should function fine without any voodoo or name extension changes.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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Re: [colorvision_group] Question for C.D.

2007-07-21 by Roger Sopher


Many thanks, that is welcome news. Same printers attached to the same machine, just different drivers in the software (I think.. I really don\u2019t know how Parallels translates from PC to Mac for printing etc.).

Roger

On 7/21/07 2:33 PM, "CDTobie@..." wrote:

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In a message dated 7/21/07 1:18:27 PM, portlyfox@... writes:


I run Qimage in Parallels on my Mac pro but all of my PFP profiles
have been made on the Mac for use in photoshop. Can I use the Mac
generated profiles in Parallels or will I have to re-enter a bunch of
color patch data in the windows version of PFP?


Monitor profiles should be made on the system, under the OS, and with the videocard, that they will be used with. But printer profiles are quite universal. If you have Mac and Windows drivers that will print a PFP target so that the patches measure the same color (within reason) then the profile can be used under both OSes. This is quite common, as the printing code for many printers is not OS-specific (Microsoft will be doing their best to change this in the future, I suspect... but at the moment we have crossplatform integrety with many printer models).

If your test target proves sufficiently similar, then just copy all your printer profiles from the Mac ColorSync > Profiles folder to the Windows > Hidden In An Absurd Location > Color folder, and they should function fine without any voodoo or name extension changes.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

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