Re: OS X ColorSync Utility
Re: OS X ColorSync Utility
- Subject: Re: OS X ColorSync Utility
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:06:53 EDT
In a message dated 7/9/02 6:51:19 PM, email@hidden writes:
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>You cannot avoid ColorSync when printing on OS X. The source document
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will
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>eventually be converted to an output space before being handed to the
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print
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>driver. Neither the print driver nor the application have a say in this.
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The
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>document is color managed all the way.
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That can't be true all of the time. First, from a theoretical standpoint
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it would make it impossible to print profile targets properly to any
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printer if everything were always being color managed.
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Second, from the experience of actually printing targets with no color
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adjustment on a couple of Epson printers and one Lexmark printer - I'm
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able to get the same results as I do in Mac OS 9 with the same settings.
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So OS X definitely has some means of not doing color management.
"Same as source" (null transforms, and with smart software no transform if it
sees that it is about to make a null transform) is one solution to avoiding
undesired color conversions... are you sure thats not the situation you are
seeing, Chris?
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
email@hidden
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