Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- Subject: Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:13:38 -0800
on 11/13/00 8:08 AM, Dan Caldwell at email@hidden wrote:
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No Chris, the reason is if the driver called ColorSync to make the
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conversion the resulting file could not be sent to the printer as
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QuickDraw can only send RGB (or three channel) data from the OS.
Depends on where you are in the chain. In my case, the OS has already ripped
the page into RGB pixels and I know (at least I think I do) the source
profile. Thus, armed with a CMYK profile I was hoping to convert the page
data directly from source RGB to printer CMYK.
Thanks,
Dave