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I recently upgraded to Lightroom 4 and was very pleasantly surprised to experience that it is possible to print directly to QuadTone RIP from LightRoom 4 without any color management from Apple by just clicking the Print button. However, I’m on Lion 10.7.4.

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Sadly, it is not possible to print directly from LightRoom through Mountain Lion (10.8) without impacting shadow and highlight detail. To print from Mountain Lion, a LightRoom image must be exported with an AdobeRGB 1998 profile, then opened in, then printed to QTR from QTR Print Tool. If you attempt to print from LightRoom in Mountain Lion, the shadow and highlights are compressed and boosted prior to printing (by Apple) if the user decides to have the printer “manage color”. It reduces a stop or two of tonal latitude. Perhaps for a casual user – this compression (or boost) by Apple is appreciated. But, for Piezography which is highly sensitive to shadow and highlight detail, this boost defeats the additional fidelity that Piezography is capable of.

I am mentioning this because it is in itself a compelling argument to upgrade LightRoom to version 4, but not Mac OS X to Mountain Lion. I have on the many internal color management schemes that Apple has been experimenting with beginning with OS X 10.5. We now advise those on 10.6 and higher to use QTR Print Tool if they want linearized output from QuadTone RIP. Print professionals (at least in my generation) have only and always upgraded after every last bug had been worked out, and every possible unforeseen circumstance that could railroad a studio had been eliminated in subsequent updates. It is not uncommon for a pay for print studio to lag several OS X versions behind the current.

It has no performance shortcomings that I am aware of. Having 4 USB 3 ports + Firewire (FW) works well with 10 TB of external data storage using 4 FW drives + 2 SATA drives in USB3 cases. I work directly from the 2 SATA External USB3 drives for current images and Have a dedicated Firewire drive for Video.

In fact, it is quite common. My own studio,, is still on OS 10.4.7 because that was the last operating system released by Apple that allows a non-color managed workflow. Piezography requires a non-color managed workflow. The reason is that if you work on a grayscale image perfecting its tonality and contrast, the last thing you want is for Apple to convert it into a new contrast gamma prior to your printing it with QuadTone RIP. And Apple began doing this after OS 10.4.7 when it detected that a user was trying to print without an ICC profile. And it began converting the non-ICC profiled image quite from one version of the OS to another – without rhyme nor reason – returning to subsequent schemes or trying new ones. I am sure that Apple’s intention was to prevent its customers from experiencing poor output from OEM printing systems.

And probably it works quite well for Apple’s consumer base. On the other hand, print professionals get hung out as a result.

Not all – but those print pros or those users who wish to take 100% control of their output, are unable to. The QTR Print Tool allows a Piezography printmaker to bypass the Apple OS. Callan method stage 7 pdf chomikuj pl.

So, for the moment, Apple and Adobe are again at peace collaborating together in my workflow – probably by mistake or coincidence. I have it locked down in a new studio we just put into our company. We bought two spanking new refurbished “2010” version Mac Pro towers so that we coud use 10.7 (Lion). New towers only come with 10.8 (Mt.

The 2010 is this litte gem you can buy from Apple’s Refurb store and it comes pre-installed with Mac OS 10.7. They are new leftover computers. We also bought two refurbished NEC PA301W-BK 30″ calibrator reference displays at just over $1,040 each. The SpectraView software for these is only $99 and we can use an existing instrument to calibrate them through their 14-bit, on-board video engines.

Big memory bumps of 32GB were purchased from Other World Computing. With a $700 dimming 5000K viewing booth – we have a pair of true PRO printing systems for less then half the price of comparable new systems from Apple (that would include rather useless (for printing) 30″ Apple Cinema Displays). We get state of the art equipment for our intended purpose. What we do not get is better integration between our iPhone, iTunes, and iCloud – a small price to pay for having tonally correct prints directly out of LightRoom 4.

For us it is easy to bypass the critical10.8 iCloud integration – because cell phones do not work in our part of Vermont. No one can call us.