Re: Epson Printers/Colorsync/OSX
Re: Epson Printers/Colorsync/OSX
- Subject: Re: Epson Printers/Colorsync/OSX
- From: "Cris Daniels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:16:41 -0300
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Of course, how close they match your display
depends on a.) the display profile being accurate, b.) the print
profile being accurate, and c.) the appropriate profiles being used for
conversion using ColorSync, which again is not the default behavior of
the Epson printer drivers.<
Chris, thanks for the in depth answer. I was being sarcastic in my post for
what its worth. The way Epson words their comment is what I though was crazy,
it totally flies against the color management workflow you mention (that we've
all been using). I tend not to take advise from people who think that a
printer will magically match a display thru voodoo. One of the best ways I've
found to help people stuck with crap color in an RGB workflow is to have them
print a known file to try to determine where the color management problem is.
I can't isolate the problem if the print accuracy is based on a monitor.
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As far as I know, and I've been told this
directly by the printing group, all raster data going to printers is
color managed by ColorSync and it cannot be avoided<
How exactly are you supposed to print targets? Double color management is
impossible to avoid if you are printing in any way to an Epson printer unless
you choose Colorsync color management within the driver. Thats what I read
into this.
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Again, I won't dispute what anyone is observing in their output.
However, I don't think the conclusion that no observable differences in
output necessary means that ColorSync is not in the print path is
correct. I think the imaging folks at Apple are just very very clever.
:-) <
Be as clever as you want Apple, just document it so that I don't have to ask
an engineer whats going on when you release an update to the OS. At least with
Windows you take it for granted that ICM won't work for anything professional(
and probably never will) so you just don't bother with ICM all together. I
love Epson, but if someone there thinks Colorsync matches a printer to a
display this is hopeless.
Cris Daniels
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