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Re: "broken" profile . . .
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Re: "broken" profile . . .


  • Subject: Re: "broken" profile . . .
  • From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 02:22:09 +0200

I am very familiar with the "broken profile syndrome" on Macs. It goes
exactly like Kerry reported: Profile gets made, gets used by client,
one day it "stops working". The easiest solution is usually to
reprofile, then things work again.

In a way this situation can be useful to a consultant because it can
bring him a client.

There are zillions of ways this can happen, hardware failure (blocked
nozzles) is certainly a feasible failure mode, but I believe that
corruption -bit rot- or accidental twiddling of print driver settings
is probably the most active sneaky culprit. I guess system or software
updates might also cause such corruption, as I don't think the PS 9.01
problem is the first time the print system got whacked by an update.

Now for the rant: If vendors were to supply some simple tools - eg.
color patches - then a consultant could quickly walk through the
components of the print chain and find where it's been perturbed.

Windows systems are notorious for system corruption, while Unix-like
systems are fairly resistant to bit-rot but it does occur, as every
admin knows..

Edmund
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