Re: ColorSync utility, round 2
Re: ColorSync utility, round 2
- Subject: Re: ColorSync utility, round 2
- From: John Fieber <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:46:37 -0500
On Jun 29, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Andrew Rodney wrote:
OK, so what is going on here because no matter what profile I pick for
my
Epson using any product to print (not only Photoshop), I get the same
output. What's the point here in associating profiles to devices (in
this
specific case, an Epson)???
I think this is fundamentally a user interface problem.
Clearly the appropriate profile to select depends on assorted settings
in the print dialog box. The print driver should register all the
assorted modes that result in different profile selection with
ColorSync. Some drivers do this. The driver for my Canon i960 does.
The user interface problem is that the mode names that show in
ColorSync Utility have NO OBVIOUS relationship to the print dialog user
interface. To this day I don't know what "PR1" and "PR2" correspond to
for the Canon i960.
Things need to be done by driver/PDE writers:
1) Get consistent with the printer mode naming between the dialog boxes
and the modes registered with ColorSync. This should be REALLY EASY to
do. We are just tasking about some meaningful text labels here.
Nothing more.
2) Actually use the profiles registered with ColorSync. This should be
REALLY EASY to do. I wonder if this isn't commonly done because
printer vendors don't trust third party control and they don't want to
deal with support issues that involve what they consider to be
incorrect profiles.
3) Provide feedback in AT LEAST the print dialog Summary pane of what
profile will ACTUALLY be used by the driver when setting up the PDF to
raster conversion (which is where the color mangling happens in tioga
drivers).
-john
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