Digital BW, The Print

> John,
> 
> when you choose ColorSync in the driver, what does it convert 
between?
> It allegedly tries to automate the process of giving you on print 
what you see 
> on your monitor. Maybe this was from earlier Epson drivers 
and I am incorrect 
> on the present ones. What do you know for sure?
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> Antonis
> 

Antonis,

What do I know for sure? Oh man...I was afraid you were going to 
ask me that!
 
For sure I know Photoshop is one of the few apps that need and 
can take advantage of ColorSync and the 'System' profile which 
now has been named 'Display' in the Colorsync control panel. 
This is Mac with OS 9.1.

Try this on a Mac - open a color image in Photoshop. Then go to 
the Monitor Control Panel> click Color and choose the 'Genric 
Gray Profile' as your 'System' profile. Close the panel - the color 
image will turn B + W. Then print...out will print a color image! 
The printer output was not modified by the System/Monitor 
profile!

Basically the monitor profile and Photoshop are a closed loop 
system - the printer profile is not involved with the display of the 
image - except with soft-proofing. Same with Photoshop and the 
printer - it's a closed loop system and the monitor profile has no 
say in how the printer will render the image. 

In the Epson driver advanced dialogue window when I choose 
Colorsync I'm only offered paper profiles - no others - so the 
'System' profile does not come into play here.

When 'Automatic' is selected - also in the advanced dioluge box 
the Epson driver is doing it's own black magic - I don't think it's 
using ColorSync at all - I'm pretty sure on this one.

It helps of course to have a properly calibrated/profiled monitor.

Then Color Management gets foggy for me!!!

Best, John V.