Re: Color managed printing from anything but Photoshop
Re: Color managed printing from anything but Photoshop
- Subject: Re: Color managed printing from anything but Photoshop
- From: Bob Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:02:44 -0600
On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Pablo Roufogalis L. wrote:
Pardon my ignorance but why is not possible in this case to
preseparate in Photoshop and do nothing re CM from then on?
That's more or less what I'm doing. I'm printing to an Epson inkjet so
I'm sending RGB data. I can covert to a printer profile in Photoshop
and then send those files through another application with no further
CM. Even that is trickier than it sounds. In iView Media Pro, I have
to strip the embedded profile for such a workflow to print correctly.
If the file contains an embedded profile some sort of unknown transform
is happening behind the scenes. But the whole problem with this
workflow is that it means maintaining a set of files that have already
been converted to a custom profile for a specific printer, ink and
paper stock. If I want to print a batch of these images again several
months from now that may not be a valid profile any more... or maybe I
want to print to a different printer. If so I start all over again
batch converting everything in Photoshop. Its a needless hassle. I
ought to be able to have a set of files archived in a common working
space and output them as needed without having to go through these
extra steps. Isn't that the whole point of all of this technology?
It's no big deal for the occasional print but the whole reason I'm
printing from an application besides Photoshop is because I have a
large volume of images to output at once... preferably in an at least
semi automated fashion.
I'm looking into Qimage on a Windows box. I haven't tried it yet but
it seems to offer exactly what I'm looking for.... a simple way to send
multiple files in a color managed way to an inkjet printer. Any
experiences out there?
Thanks
Bob Smith
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