Re: Turn off color management!
Re: Turn off color management!
- Subject: Re: Turn off color management!
- From: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:42:23 +0100
Good morning Uli,
The threads on several forums started in the winter of 2008-2009 with the
Snow Leopard introduction. Summer 2009 Snow Leopard could be purchased and
a wider group became aware of the issues. Adobe created ACPU in 2010 after
the null profile method was lost when Adobe adapted its applications
(including Windows applications 8-) to the new Colorsync policy. Microsoft
indicated it might follow OS-X on this path but luckily never did. Some
animosity between Apple and Adobe at that time probably caused more havoc
and Adobe was slow in its response to the problem. The printer driver
manufacturers were slow as well on the changes, I can only think that Apple
should have informed those parties way earlier so this could have been
solved right away.
Two years later, with Lion in 2011 this Colorsync feature was added. During
that 2009-2011 period Apple did not give a hint what was coming, at least
not in this forum. No OS-X here in this shop so never had a chance to dig
for an unknown feature :-) End of 2013 I did see the message in DPreview
describing the Colorsync feature. Of course anybody who had a professional
interest in profile creation already had the solutions to overcome the
problem Apple/Adobe created. Dedicated profile creators had their own path
to the printers (but not all), ACPU was there, Roy Harrington added his
Print Tool. With Apple not advocating this feature even in its own
Colorsync forum and meanwhile other apps available I am not surprised it
was unknown here. Apple's aim at foolproof color management probably called
for an obscure spot to hide it, plus some secrecy in documentation and
publishing. On the other hand the Colorsync list is not really a gathering
of color management fools .... you may think otherwise.
I am interested in color, using Windows + Qimage Ultimate though, and never
have been an OS-X user so this issue was something that I could look at
from the fence but at least I could help some friends and customers with
working bypasses.
In my view both Apple and Adobe neglected the color management pros etc in
a big way. There was a time Apple was at the front of color management
developments, this sure wasn't the highlight since. It has been excentric
in more of its developments, some paid off, some didn't, another example of
the last was the Safari color management as if the internet was
transferring OS-X sourced images only, that has been brought back to
mainstream sense now.
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
www.pigment-print.com
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Uli Zappe <email@hidden> wrote:
> Am 03.03.2016 um 15:41 schrieb Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>:
>
> > I can not recall that that feature has ever been mentioned at the time
> when the first reports came that target printing in OS-X was gone.
>
> What time do you refer to? The feature was added in OS X 10.7. Lion, it
> certainly wasn’t there in OS X 10.0.
>
> In previews of the upcoming OS X Lion, several (German) reviews of the new
> OS X version pointed out this feature as one of the important new features
> for professionals.
>
> Apart from that, as somebody who is interested in color reproduction, one
> of the first things I do when a new OS X version appears is check out new
> features in ColorSync Utility. I would have thought that other people
> interested in color would do the same.
>
> > Not on this list, not by Apple representatives on this list or
> elsewhere. Adobe took some months (maybe half a year) to bypass the OS-X
> interference on profile free target printing with an application that did
> not function properly either.
>
> That Adobe has no clue when it comes to OS X is nothing new. But that this
> list is not aware of important features in the eponymous application is
> somewhat strange, indeed.
>
> Bye
> Uli
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