Incidentally, for those using the Datacolor SpyderPrint app, that application has not been updated to deal with this issue, so don't use it to print targets. I would assume it does otherwise that would be a major bug, but one way to confirm is to compare printed target output form the Xrite app and then from ACPU or CU. All that said, for Xrite Colormunki to make it easy to generate the iterative printer targets, it has to do what ACPU and CU do under the hood in terms of forcing the no color management workflow. The first formal fix to the problem came from Adobe in the form of ACPU, but then Apple also put forth a formal fix in it's Colorsync Utillity application (a free app on the Mac).

That screwed up things really good for anyone trying to print untagged (i.e not color managed) targets for ICC profile making.

This feature forces the non color managed situation in the driver, ie., the colorsync and vendor matching dialogue boxes are greyed out.Įssentially, Apple engineers decided somewhere around OS10.7 that all images should be color managed all the time and that any untagged images would be treated as if they have an sRGB ICC profile embedded in them. ColorSync utility has numerous features above and beyond printing untagged color targets, but when you go to print from CU, the Colorsync utility menu in the driver then offers the choice to 'print as Color target'. ACPU is expressly designed to force the non color management situation on newer Macs, i.e., the greyed out 'color matching' menu in Mac 10.7 or higher. The workaround if needed with ColorMuncki would be to somehow gain access to the Colormuncki printer targets as RGB images and then use Adobe Color Printer utility (ACPU) or Apple's Colorsync Utility (CU) to print those target images. If you aren't getting the greyed out dialogue boxes it's a sign that Xrite has to fix their app for the the newest Mac OS's. That's a sign that the ColorMunki app has successfully forced a 'not color managed option'. If you are on OSX 10.7 or higher when you hit print from the ColorMunki App, you should see the menu option in the Canon driver for 'ColorMatching' and under that menu both 'Colorsync' and 'Vendor matching' options in the dialogue box should be greyed out (you shouldn't be able to pick either option). I'm don't own a Colormunki but as I understand it, you print the Colormunki targets iteratively right from the Colormunki App. Choosing Generic RGB under Colorsync is still not the same as turning off color management which is what needs to happen to print ICC profiling targets.

Imaging a mac with munki