Re: Default Device Profile-How Do You Change It?
Re: Default Device Profile-How Do You Change It?
- Subject: Re: Default Device Profile-How Do You Change It?
- From: Kim Christiansen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:34:15 -0700
OK, Here goes:
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From: Chris McFarling <email@hidden>
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Subject: Default Device Profile-How Do You Change It?
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Colorsync Utility-Change Default Profile For Device
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I've been testing color management on an Epson 7600 using OS 10.2.6. One
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thing that isn't clear to me is how the Epson print driver utilizes
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ColorSync.
It uses the ColorSync engine to perform the color space conversions
necessary for output, i.e. - from the color space of your file to the color
space of the chosen proofer in the ColorSync control panel.
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I'm aware that the best way to print out of Photoshop to an Epson printer in
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a color managed workflow is to use Photoshop's Print With Preview feature
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and assign profiles there, while turning off color mgmt. in the print
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driver.
Not to belabor a point you made yourself, but, yeah, you'll get the best
prints out of PhotoShop using that process every time. Nuf said.
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However, if I instead wanted to print using the ColorSync option in the
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Color Management pane of the Print dialog box, I'm not clear on what exactly
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happens.
You usually end up with a lower quality product. Look, Epson is a great
company (most of the time). They are getting better and better with media,
inks and laying that ink down in a consistent manner. What they are NOT is a
color management company. Their print driver, using ColorSync, almost always
produces a lower quality, sometime downright ugly print. Adobe, on the other
hand, is a color management company. They are out there on the leading edge
showing the rest of the industry how it's done.
The only thing I have to say about Epson's color management is at least
Epson does not claim to be color management experts and then not deliver,
we'll leave that one to a certain hardware RIP manufacturer who will remain
nameless.
If you've got an image in PhotoShop, then print it from there. If you have
another application that needs to print to the Epson, see if you can export
the image into a format Photoshop can open and print from within Photoshop.
You can also invest in InDesign if you need more page layout functionality.
That's my $1.50 (hey, inflation hurts everyone)
--
Kim Christiansen
The MacSmith
Studio Systems Consulting
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web: www.themacsmith.cc
Telephone 206-229-7725
member: Apple Consultants Network
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