Re: Colorsync Architecture
Re: Colorsync Architecture
- Subject: Re: Colorsync Architecture
- From: John Fieber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:48:04 -0500
On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Nick Wheeler wrote:
Printer drivers that ship with the printers might best be designed to
not allow for any user intervention other than the typical media and
resolution choices. What we have now is a complete fiasco.
I suppose a null setting is a good idea but if a better print driver
is desired then there are professional packages out there to do the
job: Colorburst, ImagePrint, Best, Pressready (rest in peace) etc come
to mind. It's counterintuitive to ask these cheesy print drivers to do
professional level work.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like between the idiot and
the professional we have a gaping hole. This is where folks like
slightly more advanced amateur photographers (eg. me) fit. Not being a
"professional" this stuff is a big enough financial black hole as it is
without having to fork over a professional sized wad of money to get
decent color when I don't really need most of what a high end RIP
offers. I just need:
1. A simple way to print a calibration target
2. A simple way to select a profile and rendering intent when printing
from any application
3. A simple way for photoshop to take over color management in printing
if I want it to
1 and 3 are generally possible now, but the user interface is a
disaster that invites confusion errors even for users with a pretty
solid grasp of color management. 2 is partly possible now but
exceedingly clumsy. And finally, what triggered all this:
4. Web browsers that assume sRGB for untagged color data. (Is the
interpretation of RGB values in stylesheets addressed anywhere? )
I've tried a number of third party applications that claim to be
colorsync aware and they reliably screw up color when printing (but get
screen display right). There are enough of these that there must be
confusion among developers, not just users, about how ColorSync works
in MacOS X printing. I conclude that it either doesn't really work or
that Apple is failing to communicate how it works to developers (and
users). Or more likely, some of both.
-john
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