Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- Subject: Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:30:58 -0600
On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:36 PM, MARK SEGAL wrote:
> Thanks for trying Chris, and I hope we hear more from you on this as you can manage it, your time permitting.
>
> How does the imaging community get through the heads of key people at Apple that they need to correct what they've messed up?
I don't have a good suggestion, maybe others do? I have heard they read feedback from http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I do not think the key people at Apple responsible for this component consider the current behavior incorrect or messed up. If they did, I have no reason to believe they wouldn't fix it. Once Apple considers something not working correctly, I generally feel they're rather motivated to fix it. Maybe not instantly in days or weeks, but it eventually does get fixed.
I don't know if the user pain is not being communicated. I do think that the current behavior seems reasonable and clear to Apple, and aren't really impressed that certain developers continue to have problems with this area to the point they've arrived at, "this must be too difficult for them, we need to step in and figure out a different way of handling this use case."
All speculation on my part.
What is not speculation: I know for a fact large numbers of professional and amateur photographers who depend on ICC workflows have run into color management problems, over the past 7+ years, only on Mac OS, and only in the context of printing profile targets and prematched image content, i.e. a need for a clear off switch for ColorSync. And what's happening is that "off switch" is being second guessed instead of considered a sacrosanct, clear cutoff. I've had the problem. I've had four years of SVA masters photography students intermittently have the the problem, with the past two years being the worst I've ever seen. I've had customers have this problem. And I've had colleagues have the problem. I see no light at the end of the tunnel, or improvement in predicted what OS, driver, or application update is going to "break" and cause yet a new manifestation of inconsistent printing where ColorSync off is required.
And "the problem" does not manifest itself in a way that makes it obvious there is a role for Apple to even look at the problem, let alone own it. The most obvious component to blame for prints that don't come out right is the print driver, and a close second is the application producing the print job.
But I keep coming back to, these problems don't happen on Windows. They don't happen on Linux. There is never any second guessing, or even first guessing, by system level color management on those platforms. They require engraved invitations for system level color management to come to the party. On Mac OS even an engraved uninvitation can be questioned. It's seriously like a booger you can't flick off, sometimes. That's just fragile and in my view is the source of why we keep seeing these print related problems in the very specific case of printing ICC profile targets, and (application) prematched print jobs. That is an inherently small market so there may also just be a small number of complaints relative to the larger user pool, and these complaints are statistically "normal" or "acceptable."
And so it goes.
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