So is printing through Photoshop or Lightroom on 10.9 (or 10. problem free now? Should the application or printer manage colors?...
I just modified/rewrote one sentence in my post. So now it reads: Ironically, CSU is the only way to print photos properly color managed on a MAC
other than using professional Adobe software like LR, PS, or Indesign.So, yes, you get great (predictable) color managed output with Adobe pro apps like LR, PS, and Indesign on the latest MAC OS, and it adds back into the printer menu window the rendering intent options that Apple has chosen to hide for essentially all other apps on the Mac. But let Adobe manage color not "printer manages color" to do the correct color conversion. Problem on the Mac is when the software you are using is relying on the normal Mac printer pipeline. Whereas Adobe hijacks that pipeline, makes the desired conversion with chosen rendering intent first, then forces a "no color adjust" mode at the printer driver level, the Mac printer pipeline is technically color managed but eliminates any options over rendering intent and defaults to RelCol, which without a BPC option, is mostly wrong for digital image content as I noted previously. There's the rub, and I've spoken to Apple support technicians at nauseum about my findings, and they said "send in a feature request ticket". Yikes. I guess I should, but I'm not on Apple's "evangelist" list, so I feel sort of like my feature request would be like pissing off the ledge of the Grand Canyon and hoping a little green grass will eventually grow down in the valley
And "one more thing" as Steve Jobs used to always say: It's Adobe's commitment to printmaking professionals who need the whole color management suite of proper conversion controls that finally made me go to the "dark side" and sign up for Adobe CC. I tried hard to find a photo editing alternative to PS, and ultimately I concluded that most just don't have the pro tool set I need to get the job done. Some potentially nice ones like Pixelmator failed to meet my needs simply because they depended on the Mac printer pipeline sans rendering intent options. Pixelmator did have one other huge deficiency, but that's another story.
best,
Mark