RE: Printing with No Color Management, Apple and X-Rite
RE: Printing with No Color Management, Apple and X-Rite
- Subject: RE: Printing with No Color Management, Apple and X-Rite
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:13:17 -0400
It does not seem to affect Apple's bottom line, if you judge by the stock's
performance. I think Apple would rather put their time and effort on "I"
things (iPod, iPhone, iPad, iThis, iThat). Maybe if we'd collectively
persuade Apple to re-dub ColorSync "iColorSync", they might throw a slab of
meat at it. But I doubt it. Remember that Roger Simonov keynote, at that
GATF color management in Phoenix you took me in picture? That was the days
that Microsoft announced WCS. Roger Simonov said, Apple sees the future
(growth) is in displays. So, it may be consistent for Apple not to develop a
different printing architecture for supporting desktop inkjet printers since
Apple publically vowed to stay out of "printing" by staying out of
"printers".
Roger
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Sent: April-14-11 11:24 PM
To: Chris Murphy
Cc: Forum ColorSync
Subject: Re: Printing with No Color Management, Apple and X-Rite
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:59 PM, John Gnaegy wrote:
>
>> Printing bypassing the printer driver is something both the
>> application and the driver need to be written to support on 10.6 and
>> later. As you all know you can print from Photoshop sending the
>> data directly to the printer with the "Photoshop manages colors"
>> option, Apple worked with Adobe to implement that. The thing is the
>> driver has to do the right thing too. Aperture can also do this, and
>> in Lion so can ColorSync Utility, again if the printer driver
>> supports it
>
Everyone on this list *except you* seems to know this mostly doesn't work -
at least for profiling targets, and often doesn't work for normal files.
Maybe the driver doesn't do the right thing, ever, because everybody is too
dumb to figure out that thing? Even Apple's own virtual printer example code
supplied for Snow Leopard had color management bugs in it the last time I
looked.
As Chris puts it succinctly below, Apple has ignored user pain, very vocally
expressed user pain, to an unprecedented degree in order to avoid publicly
recognizing what is a technical failure, and has by dint of persistence
become an organizational failure.
Edmund
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