re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS X
re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS X
- Subject: re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS X
- From: Neil Barstow <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:18:53 +0000
Hey Chris
On Monday, February 10, 2003 at 10:01 pm,
Chris Murphy, email@hidden, wrote:
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Use the ColorSync Utility. Click on the Devices button and you'll be
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able to select your printer model by turning down the "Printers" expand
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triangle. Then turn down the expand triangle for your model of printer,
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select the media setting you will be using, and then set the Current
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Profile drop-down menu to the custom profile.
Great tip, thanks. great feature too.
Wish Apple'd make that printer column window in the Colorsync utility
expandable, it's frustrating to see 6 or so 1290's listed with the full
name cut short, the info about each only available in the main window
upon highlighting each in the list.
Have you found that the C-Sync pipeline in OSX is capable of
referencing the actual image profile [the workingspace - usually]?
AFAIK it seemed broken on OS9 - apparently looking to the system
profile for a source - even from a profile savvy app. like Photoshop.
Perhaps it can do that in Photoshop [OSX], or, perhaps any application
capable of passing embedded proifile info to the convert/print process.?
I guess that printing from applications without the ability to read
embedded profiles is where this workflow becomes useful - however, we
might be expecting a lot to hope that C-Sync will reference an image's
embedded profile. I guess this may be where the OSX "Default profiles"
come into use - so we need a set procedure we always use for apps like
Word etc.?
Maybe it's in THE RWCM BOOK? excellent though it is, I didn't get that
far yet. I'd have to say I'm having a lot of trouble finding the
confusing and badly presented part that the guy from Boulder referred
to ;-}. Seem like a GREAT book to me.
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The rendering intent used is the default rendering intent specified by
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the profile. As of yet, there is no rendering intent control that I've
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seen in OS X printer drivers thus far. One step forward (you can't use
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custom profiles with (at least Epson's) OS 9 printer drivers), and one
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step backward (you can specify a rendering intent with most any
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manufacturer's OS 9 drivers).
same old story ;(
sometimes one step forward 2 steps back though!
all the best
neil
Neil Barstow
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