Neil, Are your Custom Papers selectable within the print dialog's Media Types, or does it depend upon the application from which you print? In my hands, none of my Custom Papers or Additional Papers are selectable in the driver dialog when printing from Adobe applications (the papers are greyed-out). Printing from OSX native apps like Preview or Text Edit does, on the other hand, offer selection of Custom & Additional papers in the driver dialog. This is a well known issue, I believe, and my discussion with HP reveals that HP blames Adobe stating the Adobe changes the driver dialogs to suit their apps. I select "Any" as the paper type within the driver, and simply make sure I select the appropriate Custom or Additional paper in the hardware panel as a workaround.
Have you any thoughts?
John-
This is exactly the reason HP put the any paper roll down in the driver. As different applications were set to pull up different settings, there is know way to know for sure if the print dialogue windows are handing off the right information. There is a lot of good thinking with Adobe and how it hands off the info to the driver intelligently , but with so many configs , the ANY category is still needed. I don't know why they might have modified the selectable options in the print dialogue boxes.
I have not and probably won't test applications though as my workflow is solid with CS3, LR, and Qimage on XP. When I was at the last Paris ICC meeting , in fact the Apple person was sitting beside me. He was well on top of issues with Apple apps and the ICC handling, in as much the driver options with Apple apps. Sounded like all was well, with some good work there.
In all Adobe apps I just set CM to the appropriate media profile and off it goes to the driver. I leave it on any paper and haven't had any problems there. But you are right the custom papers are greyed out. I suppose it would be a problem if you didn't have the right paper loaded in the front panel.
