Hello there. My name is mike from AZ and I make zines. Or rather, i did make zines until i couldn't print properly anymore.
Scraping the dark corners of the web, I'm finding that my problem is not unusual and the fine folks here seem to know the most. Can anyone offer a solution to problem I'm having? Maybe my troubleshooting results shed light on the overall issue?
I was printing just fine LAST YEAR in Snow Leopard / CS3 to a Xerox 6010 laser printer with a custom profile.
Got a new system with Lion. CS3 was broken on Lion. Got Photoshop CS5. Now I can't print using my profile. Prints are too dark and too red. All prints look the identical regardless of the profile I choose or if the printer or photoshop manages color.
Here's where things get interesting (and by interesting I mean crazy-making)
I threw in the towel, decided to downgrade back to a Leopard system and got a junky old iMac running a clean install of 10.5.4. Guess what, my prints look good coming out of Preview with my profile selected in the printer driver dialogue box. Almost perfect but just a tad dark and a tad saturated. This is my first glimmer of hope in four months! I start to rejoice that I'll be getting some sleep again.
Preview isn't that great for printing... So I decided to install CS5 on this system and try again.
CS5 requires 10.5.8 so I update the OS using software update (but not photoshop yet) and try printing out of Preview again just to check that its not the OS update to 10.5.8 that's causing the prob. Another good but not perfect print, same as before.
Then I install CS5. My prints are too dark and too red. Back to square 1.
I try printing out of Preview again.
NOW Preview crashes every time I try to select profiles out of the Printer dialogue box.
It appears that CS5 broke ColorSync in some way.
I uninstall Photosohp CS5 using adobe uninstall utility.
Still crash Preview when trying to select a profile in the Printer dialogue box.
Now, I do another clean install and print from preview.
This time, I print out of preview using a brand spanking new custom profile i just made with colormunki and my print is dead on. Win.
So now I can print again, even though the method to get that print is dumb dumb dumb. (Preview app)
In conclusion, Photoshop CS5 appears to break colorsync in Leopard in a way that affects printing from other applications that were not affected before it was installed and even after its uninstalled. The difference between slightly off profile #1 and dead one new profile #2 is unexplained.
I can work with this but would like to print from Photoshop. Any ideas? If not, thanks for humoring me and my minor discoveries.
That is all. Thanks,
Mike