SimonMartin wrote: > Hi, > > Why does nobody talk about Colorsync any more? (I'm sure the Colorsync > list is as busy as ever...) > > Is this a dead technology for some reason? Well ColorSync is the underlying technology that ICC profiles are built upon. It's sort of like saying why doesn't anyone talk about the combustion engine anymore, Is this a dead technology for some reason?
> If I set Colorsync up right > with a profiled printer, wouldn't it save me having to do a profile -> > profile before a print? That was one of the original ideas of the Mac ColorSync control panel. Very few industry vendors have adopted the abilities lying there however, and those who have have done so less, eh, intuitively. One reason might be that all vendors would have to invent something entirely differently for the PC platform (which didn't at the time have system wide colour management abilities). Consequently most have chosen to implement a non ColorSync control panel based solution on both platforms. Leaf software and Photoshop among others can be set up to take advantage of this panel, so that for example the Default input profile for leaf cameras could be chosen here, as well as default working spaces on Photoshop. It may be possible to assign a printer profile to your printer under OS X in the colorsync utility. BE aware though that you would always use the Apple CMM (or wouldn't know at all) and the default rendering intent built into the profile this way. No access to Black point compensation in Photoshop as this only works with the Adobe ACE engine. However, rather than doing a profile to profile, I'd prefer to simply select the profile in the printer space menu under photoshop's print dialogue box, thus converting on the fly while printing... Best Regards Thomas Holm / Pixl ApS - Photographer & Colour Management Consultant - Adobe Certified Training Provider in Photoshop� - Apple Solutions Expert - Colour Management - Imacon Authorized Scanner Training Facility - Remote Profiling Service (Output ICC profiles) - Seminars speaker and tutor on CM and Digital Imaging etc. - Home Page: www.pixl.dk � Email: th[AT]pixl.dk -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
