Re: "Printer Color Management"
Re: "Printer Color Management"
- Subject: Re: "Printer Color Management"
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:19:37 -0700
- Thread-topic: "Printer Color Management"
> I find it confusing that this is being referred to as "Printer Color
> Management" in the application, whereas it appears to me that it has little
> to do with "color management" in its common meaning (i.e., the choice of two
> specific profiles -- source and destination -- plus rendering intent and,
> possibly, BPC).
The driver chooses the options based on whatever the engineer who wrote it
felt was appropriate at the time (and if they were very lazy it might not
even do anything at all). There's nothing really terribly confusing about
it, just turn it off if you expect to achieve any degree of consistency or
predictability. The means by which this is accomplished varies for every
driver out there, so it is impossible for Adobe to hold your hand through
the entire process step-by-step.
> I would think that the first couple of dialogs are Operating System
> dialogs, customized by PhotoShop. The latter dialogs are written
> by the printer vendor, hence the vagueness in the PhotoShop documentation.
The first dialog in Print With Preview is managed entirely by Photoshop. On
the Mac (and presumably in Windows as well) the second dialog is a joint
venture between the OS and the driver. Whether or not the person who wrote
the driver bothered to read any of the guidelines which aim to provide a
consistent interface to the user is a total crapshoot and the fact that most
do not is the reason why there is no standardization amongst the dialogs.
Most printer and scanner vendors have one or two "Mac guys" who fake their
way through everything until they either get transferred or fired, at which
point they are replaced by two more "Mac guys" with even less experience.
Management's attitude is generally "get it out the door as cheaply as
possible so we can put a smiling Finder face on it" with some heavy doses of
"why can't you just take the Windows code and make it work?"
Documentation on how the dialogs work is freely available here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Printing/Conceptual/ExtPrintingDial
ogs/index.html
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