Re: "Printer Color Management"
Re: "Printer Color Management"
- Subject: Re: "Printer Color Management"
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:17:19 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/06 5:05:31 PM, email@hidden writes:
The new terminology in CS2 ("Let Printer Determine Colors") is a welcome correction of that ambiguity.
So true - yet there was a time in the not too distant past where you could apply your custom profiles and rendering intents at the driver level. Now at least, "custom" color management is in the hands of the professional application where it should be (IMHO) and not at the control of Epson (in this case).
Or is it? Take a look at this in the Epson driver dialogue:
Print with Preview> set for "Let Photoshop Determine Colors", etc., etc, > Print - in the resulting Epson driver third selection box down, choose "ColorSync" and as you mentioned in an earlier post, you have no choice it defaults to "Standard". Be sure in "Printer Color Management", NCA is selected and now look at the "Summary" expanding "ColorSync" and there it reads "Color Conversion" Standard and "Profile" ?????
After loading Epson's drivers for the 7800, I tried Bill Atkinson's superb profiles and had great results from Photoshop. However, with InDesign, color was off, white point was incorrect, and tonal transitions were horrible to say the least. Identical print settings in PS and ID and same driver settings were producing drastically different results.
In trouble shooting the problem, I discovered the problem by expanding the driver Summary>ColorSync box. In Photoshop, for whatever reason, the profile listed in Epson driver Summary>ColorSync>Profile was "Generic RGB Profile" yet when printing from ID, the Epson driver Summary>ColorSync>Profile was showing as Epson Standard Profile. So, something was definately being applied, despite selecting NCA.
The solution was to change the default device profile via the Colorsync utility to "Generic RGB" from "Epson Standard" and now prints from both applications are identical.
To me it appears that NCA is not really NCA. Now I wonder if the gamut of what we really could produce is being "choked" somehow by the mandatory inclusion of a profile, perhaps unwanted, somewhere in the stream that we have no control over.
Ed Foster, Jr.
www.digitalrailroad.net/edfoster
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