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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: jeyell on September 14, 2026, 09:18:20 am
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I understand the usual caveats to avoid new X.0 releases, but is there any knowledge on Apple changing the colour pipeline for print outputting Golden Gate? Also any takes on Canon's release of updated drivers for imagePROGRAF's (if necessary which they usually are).
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Most of us wait to update Mac OS's until at least the 0.3 version. Let others be the guinea pigs.
I've been using Mac's since 1984, yes 1984 and it's been a rare update that made my life better.
I do the security updates though I've not had virus issues.
No Canon specific knowledge as I'm an Epson printer person but all printers are challenging on a good day.
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I now use Canon's Professional Print & Layout (app and a plug-in which works with Lightroom and Photoshop). This is a free download from Canon.
Professional Print & Layout bypasses the Apple printing pipeline entirely and prints direct to the printer. You can also use it to print profiling targets without colour management
It doesn't support the older PRO models but has a list of supported models on the website.
I hope this helps.
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Professional Print & Layout bypasses the Apple printing pipeline entirely....
Is that even possible (entirely)?
Canon's documentation confirms that ordinary macOS ICC-managed printing uses the Color Matching → ColorSync setting in the macOS print system.
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Most of us wait to update Mac OS's until at least the 0.3 version. Let others be the guinea pigs.
I've been using Mac's since 1984, yes 1984 and it's been a rare update that made my life better.
I do the security updates though I've not had virus issues.
No Canon specific knowledge as I'm an Epson printer person but all printers are challenging on a good day.
Timely post!
I’ve been considering getting back into printing again, after a long period of inactivity that came about because of two principle factors: my HP B9180 Pro died at around the same time that HP abandoned it (some irony I think, as I have been led to believe it was developed in Barcelona, and I live in Mallorca, a night’s ferry or short flight away). The second factor is the reality of boxes of expensive German paper living in a cupboard, some of it unused but the majority of it in the form of prints that seldom see the light of day. Whenever they do, I congratulate myself on something that looks good, pleases me, but is ultimately a futile exercise in wishful thinking. I’m afraid that bird flew away a couple of decades before I thought I might see where it could take me, and when I belatedly chased after it, it led to pretty much nothing.
Forgotten, for a while, the frustration of seeing truly crappy photographs scooped up by big galleries, promoted as something Earth shattering, and revered, mainly, by non-photographers. And yeah, the never-ending expense of replacing inks, once described as being, fluid ounces per fluid ounce, more expensive than Chanel’s No 5.
I think I’ll slip my current interest in printing again into the drawer marked Crazy, and just make do with the iPad as my viewing medium. Thanks for reminding me of the inevitable hassles that had slipped into my “forgot all that” zone!
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Out of the chaos and mess photons begat electrons begat atoms begat paper upon which lies a view. A testament to determination, skill, luck, time and taste. This endpoint is where my satisfaction peaks. I've just let go of a Canon Pro 2000 after 2 years of enforced printing downtime and that hurts more than the futzing in anticipation of pushing ink through the lines of my new Pro-1100. The bank balance will suffer cold satisfaction I have for iPads as the endpoint.
Timing is bad as the OS wave hits my software installation and calibration.
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Is that even possible (entirely)?
Canon's documentation confirms that ordinary macOS ICC-managed printing uses the Color Matching → ColorSync setting in the macOS print system.
Andrew, I may have been a bit overly enthusiastic in using the word “entirely”, but for the purposes of information sharing here is what I know from experience.
My version of Professional Print & Layout (PPL) doesn't have a ‘Color Sync’ option under the colour management drop-down; although that’s not to say it doesn't use it.
The mode of operation is to use the plug-in to open the image you want to print directly in PPL. All pre-selections, such as paper type, are done from PPL which presumably is communicating directly with Canon printer driver. Printing is accomplished from PPL direct to the driver (although who knows what is happening under the bonnet/hood). Apple's Print Centre is not invoked; instead Canon's ‘Job Manager’ is invoked.
At no time are any of the Apple dialogues displayed or in-play.