Re: ColorSync flow, i.e. what happens when?
Re: ColorSync flow, i.e. what happens when?
- Subject: Re: ColorSync flow, i.e. what happens when?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:47:05 EDT
In a message dated 6/29/01 4:49:23 PM, email@hidden writes:
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For example, if I use Photoshop, I notice that there is a "Print
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Options" menu that sets some Color Management info. It seems to me
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that if I change anything there, it doesn't matter what I set in the
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ColorSync Control Panel.
The only setting that ever mattered in the ColorSync control panel was the
system (monitor) profile. The others were seldom if ever called by
applications, except for the sample ColorSync AppleScripts. Now that the
monitor control panel is used to chose monitor profiles, even that is pretty
much moot...
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So:
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-When does the Control Panel actually manage colors?
See above...
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-In the print dialog, under Color Matching, should it be set to
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"Color/Grayscale" or "ColorSync Color Matching"? I know with the
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Adobe PressReady printer driver, it needs to be set to
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"Color/Grayscale", which I had set to "ColorSync Color Matching",
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which was causing my prints to come out wrong.
It should be set to Color/Grayscale when you wish to *not* run a conversion
at this point, such as when you are printing a profile target, or when you
are applying your output profile elsewhere in advance. It should be set at
ColorSync color matching when this is your chosen (or forced) location for
converting to your output profile... and it should be set to PostScript color
matching under certain conditions connected to the tides and the lunar
cycle... as Henrik will be happy to explain.
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-Does Photoshop override the Control Panel? Do they work together?
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Does the print dialog settings override Photoshop?
The ColorSync control panel can be more or less ignored; the print dialog
contains pre-printing options hacked in by Photoshop, such as source and
output profile choices, that are a great way to control color, but which are
only available when printing from Photoshop. The print dialog may also
contain other options that allow for profile application that are available
from all applications, and you need to choose which of these two you wish to
use (if you are not converting for output in yet a third location instead),
and be sure to set the other one (or both) to the appropriate "null" setting.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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