Printing Problems ...aaah

Printing Problems ...aaah

Well I thought I'd write a quick blog post, as I've not written one in a while.

Its a bit of a moan really, when I moved to a macbook as a replacement for my windows laptop I thought it would be as intuitive as Windows, how wrong can you be..

The bit I thought would be the hardest setting up a wireless network with the printer and Macbook was a dodle, took less than a minute, the time it takes me to press the button on the printer run upstairs, find the right button on the router - job done no hitches first time connection.

Then downloaded the right drivers etc, selected printer looked good ...ah but no, it only selected the default, which had no colour matching settings..spent an hour thinking I had missed something, spent ages deleting it and telling it which version of the printer to look for - no right click from the driver like there is in Windows.

Then I was trying for ages to disable the colour settings to tell photoshop that it needs to apply the profile. Only to find in the mac it does it automatically, which is a good thing BTW, never did understand why you had to go through hoops to do this. But why oh why does it still remind you to do it in the dialogue box, if it does it automatically. I spent ages trying things thinking I had missed soothing.

Then theres saving profiles, not the right click as in photoshops windows version, no you have to first tell the Mac to unhide the profiles folder (extensive googling) then you have to navigate the file structure to add the profiles.

All that said, only one wasted print, the second was spot on my screen image - thanks in part to soft proofing, and Canson's great profiles for the Platine paper.

Right rant over, hopefully now it should be relatively straight forward.. yea right.

Tags: Photoshop Windows Canson Macbook pro Platine