Re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS
Re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS
- Subject: Re: Profile Selection with Epson printers under OS
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:47:04 -0700
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Armand Rosenberg wrote:
Just lock down the Epson driver in a useful state (such as "no color
correction") and apply color management in "Print w/Preview" --
anything wrong with that?
Using color management in Print w/ Preview is the preferred method. The
only time you wouldn't use it is if you can't use it, such as if your
output device only works with an export plug-in.
Then I don't see why you would ever need printer driver (OS) access to
profiles (for printing from PhotoShop), as long as the Epson driver
can be locked down, which I know can be done under OS-9... My
conclusion is that printer driver (OS) color management might be
useful with applications other than PS, but with PS it would be
redundant (and potentially confusing) it seems. Am I missing > something?
Nope - you've got it.
I'm using PS7 (just upgraded from 6) with OS-9. I have no idea if
"locking down" the Epson driver is actually possible with OS-X -- if
not, that would be unfortunate.
I'm not sure what you mean by locking down the driver. You can select
"No Color Adjustment" in Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows drivers. It
goes by the same name and has the same behavior (for a given printer
model) on each of these OS's.
If you mean by making No Color Adjustment the default behavior - it
varies by OS. For OS 9, I regularly see the Epson printer driver reset
to default settings for each document. The settings are "sticky" while
a document is open.
For OS X, you can create Presets including the "No Color Adjustment"
setting. I tested the behavior with an Epson Stylus Photo 1270 a month
ago, and it seems like the print dialog remembers two things: the last
printer you printed from *and* the last selected Preset. This works
across documents and applications. So it would appear you can "lock
down" the printer driver to have the same behavior: at least until
someone changes the settings in the driver (or saves a new preset).
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0201773406)
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