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: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:42:15 -0500
Let me clarify. If you're using a recent version of PhotoShop, you
can always do your conversion to a custom printer profile inside
PhotoShop prior to printing, and then just choose "none" for color
correction in the Epson driver options (assuming that choice is still
available under OS-X). This used to give similar but not identical
results to picking the custom printer profile in the driver under
OS-9. It's a way to apply custom profiles even if the driver doesn't
recognize them, but it's much more awkward especially for newcomers.
By the way:
1) I don't know why there was a (slight) difference in prints under
OS-9 depending on which method you used to apply the custom profiles.
2) Some people on this list said it was better to choose "automatic"
or even "photo-enhance" rather than "none" in the Epson driver when
using custom profiles, but there was some question about gamut sizes
being the same or not using these different options -- I don't know
what the final consensus was on this point.
Considering how important Epson printers are to Mac users doing
digital photography, I am dismayed by these ongoing issues with OS-X.
I am also dismayed by Epson tech support's lack of familiarity with
ColorSync (ie, BAD advice), but that's been going on for as long as I
can remember. And Epson is about average in the non-Apple world in
this regard. (I'd have called them "3rd parties" but I hate that term
because (a) who's the 2nd party? and (b) it sounds too much like "3rd
world" and hence seems derogatory.)
Armand
At 5:17 PM -0500 2/11/03, Armand Rosenberg wrote:
Can this be true? Is this a "feature" of the long-awaited Epson OS-X
driver? If so, what a giant leap backwards for Epson (and,
indirectly, Apple)!
At 6:21 PM -0800 2/10/03, bruce fraser <email@hidden> wrote:
Nope. If there's a way of using custom profiles with the Epson
driver, I've yet to find it, and believe me, I've tried!
_______________________________________________
colorsync-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/colorsync-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.