Update For Using ColorMunki With Snow Leopard

The other day, I posted some information about color management and Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6.1).

Since then, I did some printing on an Epson 9800 using the ConeColor inkset. I tried using my old profiles, created with the ColorMunki in the Leopard OS (10.5). They were "not optimum" - in other words, they were pretty bad. The prints I had previously made in Leoard were perfect.

So, I followed XRite's suggestion and re-profiled the paper using the Version 2 ICC profile (it's a setting in the ColorMunki printer profiling preferences - I described the process in the last post). The default for the ColorMunki (and the I-1) is Version 4. According to XRite, the Snow Leopard OS cannot currently recognize the Version 4 profiles.

Bottom line -- everything is back to normal -- I'm getting beautiful prints using the Version 2 ICC profiles generated by the ColorMunki and using Snow Leopard.

When will Apple fix Snow Leopard? I don't know... but I'll let you know when I do.